Patents Assigned to American Express Travel Related Services
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20170068582
    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 4, 2015
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: American Express Travel Related Services Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Rahul Agarwal, Sachin Arya, Sastry Durvasula, Harish Naik, Satish Narayanan
  • 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: 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Patent number: 9576294
    Abstract: The systems and methods provide an offer to a user that may be accepted by the user through an action by the user. The action may be, for example, a broadcast through a social media channel. The parameters of the offer may defined that the broadcast comprise an offer identifier and may require that a user take subsequent action to fulfill the offer. The systems and methods may also be configured to monitor one or more broadcast channels, identify the source of a broadcast, identify transaction accounts associated with the source, evaluate transaction data associated with the transaction account, and provide benefits to the source and/or the transaction account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Luke Gebb, Sathish B. Muthukrishnan, Sripriya Tiku, David Wolf
  • Publication number: 20170048277
    Abstract: A secure mobile financial transaction is provided by receiving, over a communication network, a list of protection mechanisms available for implementation by an external terminal. Security-related data is received from one or more sensors and an attack signature is computed based on the security-related data. An appropriate security policy is selected from multiple security policies stored in a database based on the list of protection mechanisms and the attack signature. A secure communication session is established between the external terminal and an internal network component according to the selected security policy. A data message associated with a mobile financial transaction is communicated over the communication network during the communication session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventor: SAMUEL A. BAILEY, JR.
  • Publication number: 20170046727
    Abstract: The systems, methods and computer program products (collectively “system”) described herein relate to customized real time data delivery. The system may be configured to receive, by a performance marketing cluster, first data from a first data source. The system may also receive, by the performance marketing cluster, second data from a second data source. The system may determine, by the marketing cluster, an analysis scheme for the first data and the second data based on the first data source. The system may also determine, by the marketing cluster, at least one of a propensity to act or a recommendation selected from a predefined number of available options for a population based on the analysis scheme and the first data source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Lee Chau, Tirthankar Choudhuri, Ajay Choudhary, Vikas Grover, Mohd Arshad Naeem, Subhajit Sanyal, Dawn Thomas, Amit Jagdish Agarwal, Pranav Mehta, Kamal Gupta, Subhra Purkayastha, Prakruthi Prabhakar
  • Publication number: 20170046750
    Abstract: A system is disclosed for allowing a merchant to create offers for distribution via multiple distribution channels. The distribution channels may include social media networks and location based services. The method may include receiving offer parameters for generating the offer, generating offer data based on the offer parameters and merchant transaction data, and determining data subsets of the offer data for distribution through multiple electronic distribution channels. The systems and methods may include associating a transaction account of the account holder with the offer, monitoring a transaction of the transaction account, comparing with a criterion governing the offer, and generating a report for the merchant. The report may include various metrics of the offer, such as return on investment, tracking information on the number of repeat customers and new customers during an offer period, and may occur approximately real-time with the transaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: MARA K. CHOMSKY, DAVID M. GREENSPAN, RANDI SCHOCHET, ELIZABETH K. VAKIL
  • Publication number: 20170046251
    Abstract: A test script may be written in a test script configuration spreadsheet. A plurality of test scripts may be listed in a test suite spreadsheet. A user may hit a run key to execute all or any subset of the test scripts listed in the test suite spreadsheet. A test engine may read the test suite spreadsheet and the test script configuration spreadsheets to execute the test scripts on any platform or browser specified by the test suite spreadsheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: MANSOOR JAFARY, ROBERT B. MAWK, NAGARAJ S. PANDIT, GANESHBABU G. SUBRAMANIAN
  • Publication number: 20170048317
    Abstract: The disclosed system may comprise a mainframe computing resource, a data library, a data processing appliance, and a distributed system. The data library may be securely connected to the mainframe computing resource. The data library may be configured to receive data from the mainframe computing resource via a first interface. The data processing appliance may be configured to read and write data to the data library via a second user interface. The distributed system may be configured to receive data from the data processing appliance. The distributed system may be further configured to process the data based on a workflow from the mainframe computing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicants: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc., VELOCIDATA, INC.
    Inventors: Fred Bishop, Tapan Ganguly, Michael Henrichs, Curtis Howard, Ron Indeck, Rajiv R. Prakash, Imran Shah, Robin Thomas Vetrady
  • Publication number: 20170046361
    Abstract: The disclosed system may comprise a mainframe computing resource, a data library, a data processing appliance, and a distributed system. The data library may be securely connected to the mainframe computing resource. The data library may be configured to receive data from the mainframe computing resource via a first interface. The data processing appliance may be configured to read and write data to the data library via a second user interface. The distributed system may be configured to receive data from the data processing appliance. The distributed system may be further configured to process the data based on a workflow from the mainframe computing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicants: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc, VELOCIDATA, INC.
    Inventors: Fred Bishop, Tapan Ganguly, Michael Henrichs, Curtis Howard, Ron Indeck, Rajiv R. Prakash, Imran Shah, Robin Thomas Vetrady
  • Patent number: 9569789
    Abstract: A system and method provide rewards or loyalty incentives to transaction account customers. The system includes a computing platform comprising application programming interfaces that enable users to define marketing programs. The system thus enables an efficient, automated and extensible platform for creating, managing and executing rewards and other marketing related programs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Sastry Durvasula, Luke Gebb, Priyadarshini Koul, Michael Morris, Sherree Newhouse, Manjushri Puranik, Scott Roen, Jennifer Russo, Sripriya Tiku, Robert Wilmes, David Wolf, Sathish Muthukrishnan