Patents Assigned to American Express Travel Related Services Company
  • Patent number: 8600845
    Abstract: A system, method and computer program product for reconciling one or more financial transactions of one or more business units. The method includes capturing transaction data from the financial transactions using a first set of data logics. The capturing further includes extracting the transaction data from the financial transactions using import templates and transforming the extracted transaction data to a predefined format, using a first set of validations. The captured transaction data is then auto-matched with master data as reference, using one or more auto-match logics and a second set of validations. One or more reports are then generated on the auto-matched transaction data. The method further includes providing user privileges for controlling the capturing, the auto-matching, and the generation of the one or more reports according to a first predefined criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Preeti Lobana, Ruchika Arun, Kizhakkemadam R. Krishnan, Uday Rao Kadam, Raju Vishwanathan, Shino Joseph, Anurag Dahiya
  • Patent number: 8595133
    Abstract: Systems and methods for paying a transaction amount at a point of sale (e.g. a physical point of sale or a virtual point of sale) are disclosed. The systems and methods are configured to monitor transaction information to identify eligible transactions at the point of sale. Alternative funding options may be presented at substantially the same time as a transaction is being processed at a point of sale. Based on the user's selection, a credit may be applied to the transaction account corresponding with at least a portion of the transaction amount from the alternative funding source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: I-Hsin Chuang, Leigh Malnati, Aravind Narasimhan
  • Patent number: 8595074
    Abstract: A system and method for activating and funding prepaid cards at the point of sale by making innovative use of existing point-of-sale devices and existing credit/debit card acceptance networks and processes. The invention obviates the need to implement new/different technology at point-of-sale terminals that are widely used at retail outlets. This invention makes use of the existing credit and charge card systems and processes, including industry standard message formats, to settle funds and fees between the seller and the issuer of the prepaid card, thus further reducing the expense and time-to-market for product distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Bansi L. Sharma, Michael L. Peterson
  • Publication number: 20130311259
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture for acquiring new customers. A plurality of merchants may submit customer lists to a business acquisition coalition (BAC). The BAC may combine the customer lists to create a master customer list. A merchant may transmit a customer offer to the BAC. The BAC may create an offer list comprising customers that meet criteria of the customer offer. The BAC may remove customers from the offer list which were provided by the merchant. The BAC may transmit the customer offer to the customers on the offer list. A customer may purchase the customer offer. The BAC may transmit payment to the merchant, and transmit a commission to a providing merchant that provided the customer's information. The BAC may receive an acquisition fee from the merchant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Kleinberg, Jocelyn Lee, Jeffrey Reiser, Ariel Steinlauf, Robin Thiessen
  • Patent number: 8589294
    Abstract: The present invention provides an automated system configured to facilitate transfers of cash value from one or more lines of credit to one or more deposit accounts or payment systems. An automated system ensures that requested funds are available in a customer's one or more lines of credit and electronically deposits the requested funds into one or more designated deposit accounts or payment systems. An automated system provides a means for customers to manage lines of credit, setup transfer transactions, define rules governing transfers and view transactional history. The automated system, in network connection with the lending organization's backend systems, may authenticate customer identities and credit accounts as well as insure that the requested funds are available for transfer into a deposit account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas C. Baker, Diane M. Derocher, Lawrence Stanton Hoffman, Bruno Jimenez, Yogesh R. More, Pauline Raffaele, Andrea M. Saporito, Jennifer Lynne Wybraniec
  • Patent number: 8584938
    Abstract: A wireless financial transaction instrument, such as a card, has a magnetic stripe, a display, and an on-board power supply, such as a battery, and is usable with a dual capture point of sale terminal. Information is received by such a terminal from the card wirelessly, and also from the magnetic stripe, and the data received contactlessly is preferably used to verify that read from the stripe. The display can display the account number on command, or to display a current balance, or amount of credit remaining, or any combination of these items of information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: David S. Bonalle, Mike Donovan, Sherrie G. Jackson, Scott G. Paylor, Medina J. Senghore, Tracey R. Thomas
  • Patent number: 8589284
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for offering transaction account consumers with payment term options to pay a minimum amount due early, defer payment into the following payment cycle, and pay a standard amount when due. When generating a periodic billing statement, the invention determines a consumer's eligibility to elect early payment, deferred payment, and regular payment. When a consumer is eligible for early payment, a received payment is compared to a discount rate tier, then a discount amount is calculated and credited to the consumer's account. When the consumer is eligible for deferred payment, the system calculates a new current minimum payment due by multiplying the current non-deferred balance by a predetermined percentage amount and adding the result to the deferred balance. When the consumer is not eligible for deferred payment, the system calculates a new current minimum due by summing the current non-deferred balance with the deferred balance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Ang, Boudhayan Choudhuri, Jessica Kaplan, David Lowy, Gyanesh Narayan, Eric Nielsen, Christine Vega
  • Patent number: 8589255
    Abstract: A solution is provided for a method for a user to shop online in a three dimensional (3D) virtual reality (VR) setting by receiving a request at a shopping server to view a shopping location, having at least one store, and displaying the shopping location to the user's computer in a 3D interactive simulation view via a web browser to emulate a real-life shopping experience for the user. The server then obtains a request to enter into one of the stores and displays the store website to the user in the same web browser. The store website has one or more enhanced VR features. The server then receives a request to view at least one product and the product is presented in a 3D interactive simulation view to emulate a real-life viewing of the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Elliott Glazer, Carol Lee Hobson, Elizabeth S. Deming, Coby Royer, Jeff S. Fehlhaber
  • Patent number: 8589787
    Abstract: The invention includes system for centralized rendering of user interface elements based on configurations as described in XML. A developer may create a definition for a field based on the nature of the information to be displayed to a user within a single file. Such definition will affect all future instances of the particular data type without a need to modify and/or compile code residing either within an HTML file or on a server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Suzanne K Berlin, Sonali Bimal Bose, Sitaram Inguva, Chintamani Maheshwar Chhatre
  • Publication number: 20130304619
    Abstract: An existing customer of a financial institution may open a new account with their financial institution using an optimized online interface. Initially, the interface presents a standard application for a new account in which an extensive number of fields for personal and financial information must be completed. A link is provided on this long application for use by existing account holders only. Upon selection of the link, an existing account holder is instead presented with a short application in which only the account holder's name, a portion of their social security number, their existing account number, and their account confirmation identifier are required to be entered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Yelena Khandros, Lorraine C. Miranda, Suzanne K. Berlin, Randy Okerlund, Rhonda Lee Bertucci, Gregory Alan Glenn
  • Publication number: 20130304576
    Abstract: The systems and methods of the disclosure allow user to receive offers through social media channels. The systems and methods are capable of creating offers, ranking the offers based on both transaction data and social media profile activity information, distributing the offers through social media channels, associating the offers with a synced transaction account and providing rewards based on transactions that comply with offers. The rewards may be applied at the time of purchase, in response to authorization information or at settlement as a transaction account credit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Leslie Berland, Shari Forman, Luke Gebb, Priyadarshini Koul, Sathish Muthukrishnan, Jennifer Russo, Sriprya Tiku, David Wolf
  • Patent number: 8572712
    Abstract: A system is disclosed which facilitates authentication processes with web-enabled wireless devices, including those that do not support the use of cookie files. To facilitate such authentication, a web server analyzes an HTTP request file from a communication device for the presence of security token data. Where none is found, a client is directed to a login page for input of authentication data, such as a user name and password information. Upon proper authentication, the client's communication device is issued a security token using standard HTML-INPUT tags. Thereafter, the web server determines if each additional HTTP request file received from the client includes a security token before responding to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Mike Rice, Sineesh Keshav
  • Patent number: 8572264
    Abstract: A system for providing state awareness across communication channels and statefully transitioning a user between a source channel and a destination channel is disclosed. The method may comprise storing a unique identifier associated with the user and data associated with the user, retrieving the data associated with the user based upon the user identifier and in response to the user entering the destination channel that is different from the source channel, and populating the data associated with the user in the destination channel. The destination channel may comprise a display of a customer service representative, and the populating may occur automatically. Furthermore, the method may comprise placing a call to a telephone number associated with the user in response to at least one of: the user answering a requisite number of questions in the source channel and the user requesting a transition to a voice destination channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Siddhartha Dutta
  • Patent number: 8571919
    Abstract: The present invention improves upon existing systems and methods by providing a passive profile creation method. The data accessible to a financial processor, such as spend level data, is leveraged using sophisticated data clustering and/or data appending techniques. Associations are established among entities (e.g., consumers), among merchants, and between entities and merchants. In one embodiment, a system and method for passively collecting spend level data for a transaction of a first entity, aggregating the collected spend level data for a plurality of entities; and clustering the first entity with a subset of the plurality of entities, based on aggregated spend level data of the first entity is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajendra R. Rane, Melissa Schwartz
  • Patent number: 8571929
    Abstract: Information can be shared across a pre-approved (PA) channel and a non pre-approved (NPA) channel to reduce unnecessary offers of a transactional instrument or transactional instrument upgrade to prospects. All prospects listed in the NPA channel that have been evaluated in the PA channel may be removed from a NPA offeree list. This may be done by matching the NPA prospect list with a list of prospects who have been evaluated in the PA channel. The list of prospects evaluated in the PA channel may include, for example, prospects who were pre-approved for an offer as well as prospects who were considered for a pre-approved offer but who were denied the offer. Prospects in the NPA channel that are removed from the NPA offer list may be dropped from further NPA processing, as such prospects are either unprofitable or do not meet a transactional account company's standards for credit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Atul K. Srivastava, Yanyan Guo, Michael A. Vapenik
  • Patent number: 8571953
    Abstract: This invention relates to reimbursement of travel expenses. In a first embodiment of the present invention, a computer-implemented method processes a travel expense voucher. The method determines whether the travel expense voucher satisfies a condition. If the travel expense voucher satisfies the condition, the method allows a payment corresponding to the travel expense voucher. If the travel expense voucher does not satisfy the condition, the method provides an interface to perform an audit of the travel expense voucher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Nitya Gopalakrishnan, Sharat Kumar, Periaswamy Ramalingam
  • Patent number: 8566229
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to financial data processing, and in particular it relates to credit scoring, consumer profiling, consumer behavior analysis and modeling. More specifically, it relates to risk modeling using the inputs of credit bureau data, size of wallet data, and, optionally, internal data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Tirthankar Choudhuri, Dewan Anjali, Amber Gupta, Kathleen Haggerty, Di Xu, Chao Yuan
  • Patent number: 8566228
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to financial data processing, and in particular it relates to credit scoring, consumer profiling, consumer behavior analysis and modeling. More specifically, it relates to risk modeling using the inputs of credit bureau data, size of wallet data, and, optionally, internal data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Tirthankar Choudhuri, Anjali Dewan, Amber Gupta, Kathleen Haggerty, Di Xu, Chao Yuan
  • Patent number: 8566902
    Abstract: A secure messaging system is disclosed wherein messages are transmitted to a user based on a feature unique to the user, such as an account number. The user authenticates himself, then messages associated with the user can be displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Alex J. Draughon, Anil B. Kelwalkar, Richard Cinanni, Lucia R. Delgado, Anna M. Payne, Patrice L. Kirner, Brett M. Vankoski, Janice M. Chai-Chang, Allan J. Corupe, John Allen, Paul Murphy, Miriam Pruett
  • Publication number: 20130275292
    Abstract: A method is provided comprising receiving tradeline data associated with a consumer related to a tradeline, determining payment terms of the tradeline by selecting the greatest of a minimum potential payment amount, a fixed percentage potential payment amount, and a fixed percentage plus finance charge potential payment amount, and calculating (in response to selection of the fixed percentage plus finance charge potential payment amount) an APR of the tradeline.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2012
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: American Express Travel Related Services Company Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Cappucci, Alexander Cook, Sona Grover, Manish Gupta, Li Huang, Jean Paul Diegane Ndong, Charles Chen Song, Xiaodong Sun