Patents Assigned to American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
  • Patent number: 9635059
    Abstract: An adaptable network security system includes trust mediator agents that are coupled to each network component. Trust mediator agents continuously detect changes in the security characteristics of the network and communicate the detected security characteristics to a trust mediator. Based on the security characteristics received from the trust mediator agents, the trust mediator adjusts security safeguards to maintain an acceptable level of security. Trust mediator also uses predetermined rules in determining whether to adjust security safeguards. Despite inevitable changes in security characteristics, an acceptable level of security and efficient network operation are achieved without subjecting users of the network to over burdensome security safeguards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC.
    Inventor: Samuel A. Bailey, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9633224
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes a method comprising encrypting sensitive data, generating a token comprising a data identifier, tokenizing the encrypted sensitive data, and/or storing the encrypted sensitive data in association with the token to a token vault. Tokenizing may comprise mapping the encrypted sensitive data to the token. The method may further comprise storing the token to a cloud application, wherein the cloud application comprises a software application that functions within a cloud computing environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC.
    Inventor: Siddhartha Dutta
  • Patent number: 9633362
    Abstract: The systems, methods, and computer program products (collectively “systems”) described herein are generally configured to monitor actions in digital channels. More specifically, the systems are capable of creating reservations for items and initiating payments for the items based on actions or information received from the digital channel. The systems are capable of syncing transaction accounts with various digital channels. Moreover, the systems are capable of initiating or completing transaction based on user information. The systems may also be capable of providing rewards based on activities or accomplishments in the digital channels. Moreover, the systems may be capable of verifying activities based on transaction information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Morris, Stephanie Schultz, Ilias Tsangaris, David Wolf, Michael Yu
  • Publication number: 20170104746
    Abstract: Systems and methods of securely storing and retrieving data are disclosed. A database may include a table of data with rows and columns and encrypted at rest. The data may be desired to be accessed by users. However, each user may have different access permissions and each row or column may have different characteristics, such as encryption, data type, and/or the like. As such, access to the data may be controlled in according to the characteristics of the data, the access permissions of the user, and/or the encryption of the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: ASHOK K. NAIR, SASTRY DURVASULA, KEVIN L. MURRAY, SULABH SHUKLA
  • Publication number: 20170104742
    Abstract: A JBoss application may allow for a distributed application hosted on a JBoss application server to connect to a hierarchical type database. Additionally, the JBoss application may communicate via IMS Connect and Open Database Manager Common Service Layers in order to retrieve the data from the IMS databases. A Java framework may be installed on the JBoss application server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2015
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: MANLI CHAN, TAPAN GANGULY, CHANDLER C. HELMUTH, CELIA S. HIBBERT NELSON, GABRIEL A. JIMENEZ
  • Publication number: 20170098242
    Abstract: A system may generate a first transaction history from a plurality of records of charge. The system may select a plurality of merchants based on the plurality of records of charge, and generate a first user profile in response to the first transaction history and the plurality of merchants. The first user profile may comprise a merchant score for a merchant appearing in the first transaction history. The first transaction history may include transaction account issuer data. The system may receive a request for content that identifies a user account associated with the first user profile. The system may further generate the content based on the merchant score in response to the request for the content. The request may be automatically generated by the application or may be in response to an action by the first user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Applicant: AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Emily E. Gould, Kristen N. Oldenburger, Alice Park, Seth M. Ross, Mohammad Torkzahrani, Venkat Varadachary
  • Publication number: 20170098286
    Abstract: A system may generate a first transaction history from a plurality of records of charge. The system may select a plurality of merchants based on the plurality of records of charge, and generate a first user profile in response to the first transaction history and the plurality of merchants. The first user profile may comprise a merchant score for a merchant appearing in the first transaction history. The first transaction history may include transaction account issuer data. The system may receive a request for content that identifies a user account associated with the first user profile. The system may further generate the content based on the merchant score in response to the request for the content. The request may be automatically generated by the application or may be in response to an action by the first user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Applicant: AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Emily E. Gould, Kristen N. Oldenburger, Alice Park, Seth M. Ross, Mohammad Torkzahrani, Venkat Varadachary
  • Patent number: 9613361
    Abstract: A system and method provide rewards or loyalty incentives to card member customers. The system includes an enrolled card member customer database, an enrolled merchant database, a participating merchant offer database and a registered card processor. The enrolled card member customer database includes transaction accounts of card member customers enrolled in a loyalty incentive program. The enrolled merchant database includes a list of merchants participating in the loyalty incentive program. The participating merchant offer database includes loyalty incentive offers from participating merchants. The registered card processor receives a record for charge for a purchase made with an enrolled merchant by an enrolled card member customer and uses the record of charge to determine whether the purchase qualifies for a rebate credit in accordance with a discount offer from the enrolled merchant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: David Wolf, Sripriya V. Tiku, Scott M. Roen, Jennifer M. Russo
  • Patent number: 9613306
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer readable medium (collectively, the “system”) are provided. The system may include a processor configured to perform operations and/or steps comprising storing, by a processor, a session key on a mobile device, wherein the session key is encrypted. The system receiving a transaction request, decrypting the session key, and broadcasting a signal configured for being received by a magnetic stripe reader. Track 1 data and/or track 2 data may be encoded in the signal. The track 1 data and/or the track 2 data may also comprise a dynamically generated value that is generated based on the session key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Manish K. Deliwala, Jonathan Lupton, Ajay B. Maddukuri, John G. McDonald
  • Publication number: 20170091817
    Abstract: A transaction account provider may obtain transaction information from consumer transactions and information from a consumer browsing a transaction account provider website, collectively first-party data. A web server may obtain second-party data from a consumer's use of a merchant website. Additional third-party data may be purchased from a third-party data source. An ad server may use the first-party data, the second-party data, and the third-party data to select a relevant personalized banner ad to be displayed to the consumer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: BRIAN G. LENHART, LAURA WOLF
  • Publication number: 20170091533
    Abstract: A system may receive a primary image containing a first set of facial feature data. The primary image may be sent by a facial recognition device for association with a user account. The system may also retrieve a secondary image from a secondary image source. The secondary image may contain a second set of facial feature data. The secondary image may further depict a user associated with the user account. The system may then compare the first set of facial feature data to the second set of facial feature data to determine whether the primary image depicts the user associated with the user account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Upendra Mardikar
  • Patent number: 9607344
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a message comprising a user identification code via a social media messaging channel. In addition, the method includes receiving geo-location information of the device transmitting the message. The method also includes verifying the user identification code by confirming that the geo-location information complies with stored expected geo-location information. The method also includes accessing data associated with a transaction account linked to the user identification code based on the content of the message. The method further includes transmitting a reply to the received message on the social media messaging channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Anant Athale, Srinivas Dasari
  • Patent number: 9607308
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes a system, method, and article of manufacture for spend based targeting and measurement. The method may comprise transmitting to a third party system a model and/or a measurement file associating a first party cookie ID with a model, and receiving, from the third party system, an updated model (and/or measurement) file associating a third party cookie ID with web-browsing data. The third party cookie ID may anonymously and uniquely correspond to the first party cookie ID, and the first party cookie ID may be stripped from the updated model (and/or measurement) file to de-identify a customer associated with the first party cookie ID. Moreover, the web-browsing data may be received by the third party system from a second party system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Mehmet E. Dedeoglu, Iwao Fusillo, Danny M. Yelle
  • Publication number: 20170083694
    Abstract: A system receives a source and a metadata layer that describes the source. The source may comprise source records with fields containing source data, and the metadata layer may include metadata comprising at least one of a field data type, a field data length, a field description, or a record length. The processor may further validate the metadata layer against the source and write results to a log. The processor may further be configured for transforming the source records into transformed records for a load ready file. The processor may further balance a number of records in the source against a number of transformed records in the load ready file to generate a transformation failure rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Applicant: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Upendra Mardikar, Wael Ibrahim
  • Publication number: 20170085558
    Abstract: A system may generate a seed one-time password (OTP). The system may also perform steps including transmitting the seed OTP to a user device, receiving a response OTP from the user device, and calculating an expected response OTP by applying a function to the seed OTP. The system may then compare the response OTP to the expected response OTP and send a result in response to comparing the response OTP to the expected response OTP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Applicant: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Wael Ibrahim, Upendra Mardikar
  • Patent number: 9589271
    Abstract: Various systems and methods for measuring ad impression effectiveness are provided. A method is provided comprising selecting, by an ad impression processor, a target consumer for an ad impression, delivering the ad impression to the target consumer, determining, by the processor, a behavior of the target consumer after a time period elapses, wherein the determining comprises analyzing internal data relating to the target consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Brian C. Bender, David S. Bonalle, Mehmet Dedeoglu, Patrick R. Lowery, Tamara F. Odinec, Rajendra R. Rane
  • Patent number: 9589264
    Abstract: Systems and methods may comprise RFID data acquisition technology which may be embedded in a fob or tag for use in completing financial transactions. This fob may a self-contained device which includes a transponder and which may be contained on any portable form factor. For instance, the tag may be housed in a wearable transaction instrument, such as an activity tracker. The tag is configured to be used in concert with an RFID reader device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Manish K. Deliwala, Jason E. Muncey, Keshav A. Narsipur, Sreenivasan B. Parameshwara, Manoj Krishnamma Thulassedharan Pillai, Anthony I. Prentice, Lisa C. Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20170061272
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer readable medium (collectively, the “system”) are provided. The system may include a processor configured to perform operations and/or steps comprising storing, by a processor, a session key on a mobile device, wherein the session key is encrypted. The system receiving a transaction request, decrypting the session key, and broadcasting a signal configured for being received by a magnetic stripe reader. Track 1 data and/or track 2 data may be encoded in the signal. The track 1 data and/or the track 2 data may also comprise a dynamically generated value that is generated based on the session key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Manish K. Deliwala, Jonathan Lupton, Ajay B. Maddukuri, John G. McDonald
  • Publication number: 20170061435
    Abstract: Systems and methods are configured to manage data sets associated with multiple transaction devices. The first and second data sets are associated with first and second owners, respectively, and are configured to be stored independent of each other The transaction devices user may be permitted to select at least one of the multiple data sets for transaction completion using a secondary identifier indicia. Where the user selects multiple accounts for transaction completion, the user may be permitted to allocate portions of a transaction to the selected transaction accounts from multiple transaction devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: David Armes, Fred Bishop, Peter D Saunders
  • Patent number: 9582830
    Abstract: Offsite financial account onboarding is provided which creates a more streamlined process for a customer. The customer accesses a money services business electronic system to request financial account setup. The onboarding system establishes account access to a pooled custodial account managed by the money services business based on preliminary identification (ID) data from the customer. With only preliminary ID data, account access limits are assigned which reduces the risk of fraud or criminal activity with the customer's account access. Because account access is established with just the preliminary ID data, the customer may fully obtain account access directly from a mobile device. The money services business provides additional graduated access levels depending on additional ID data provided by the customer. Thus, depending on the type of ID data provided by the customer, the customer's account access will have corresponding access level rights to the custodial account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Nicholas P. Johns, Jason J. Hogg, Cory Moreira