Patents Assigned to Branch Banking & Trust
  • Patent number: 8756096
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes novel systems and methods that can be utilized to evaluate and/or direct an interaction with a consumer database and/or evaluate a consumer database, where the consumer database contains information about consumers and particular products and/or services held or used by the consumers. The interactions may be, for example, determining a strategy for sales, marketing, cross-selling, and/or retaining one or more of the consumers. The evaluations may include, for example, hierarchically ranking the consumers and/or determining a clustering of the consumers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Branch Banking & Trust Company
    Inventors: Robert Russell Lawton, Guenther Kurt Hartfeil
  • Patent number: 8738488
    Abstract: A method for a business customer interfacing with a financial institution through a computer network is presented. The method includes an early warning evaluation of the customer and/or entities associated with the customer to identify fraudster/abusers and prevent them from opening online accounts at the financial institution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Branch Banking & Trust Company
    Inventors: Lori Hall, Alicia Silla, Teresa Rose
  • Publication number: 20130339066
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes novel systems and methods for a customer to receive information and/or purchase a product or service while interacting with multiple vendors through a single contact/agency. The customer is able to communicate with the agency through a variety of communication modes. The agency adapts the customer's input as necessary to meet the requirements of the vendors and the agency returns information to the customer so that the customer can conveniently interact with the multiple vendors. The systems and methods allow for the customer to stop and restart the process at various points using any of the communication modes. The agency has the ability to present the customer with prospecting, sales, service, upgrades, cross-sells, and other pre- and post-purchase services at the single point-of-contact agency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: Branch Banking & Trust Company
    Inventors: Brandon Bradshaw, Kenneth Gray Nester, II, Gregory Velett, Patricia M. Kinney
  • Patent number: 8612339
    Abstract: A system and method for a business customer interfacing with a financial institution through a computer network is presented. The method includes a determination of whether the customer is an on-line client of the financial institution, a verification of customer-provided information with a pre-existing client identification profile for the customer, a determination of whether the customer is a sole proprietorship, a determination of the customer's credit score using a set of predetermined criteria, and presenting a set of account options based at least in part on the verification of the customer-provided information and the customer's credit score. Additional customer-provided information may be received and verified and used to enroll the client in one or more programs offered by the financial institution at a predefined level based at least on one or more predetermined factors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Branch Banking & Trust Company
    Inventors: Teresa Rose, Lori Hall, Douglas Joel Zickafoose
  • Patent number: 8504409
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes novel systems and methods that can be utilized to evaluate and/or direct an interaction with a consumer database and/or evaluate a consumer database, where the consumer database contains information about consumers and particular products and/or services held or used by the consumers. The interactions may be, for example, determining a strategy for sales, marketing, cross-selling, and/or retaining one or more of the consumers. The evaluations may include, for example, hierarchically ranking the consumers and/or determining a clustering of the consumers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Branch Banking & Trust Company
    Inventors: Robert Russell Lawton, Guenther Kurt Hartfeil
  • Patent number: 8473328
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes novel systems and methods that can be utilized to evaluate and/or direct an interaction with a consumer database and/or evaluate a consumer database, where the consumer database contains information about consumers and particular products and/or services held or used by the consumers. The interactions may be, for example, determining a strategy for sales, marketing, cross-selling, and/or retaining one or more of the consumers. The evaluations may include, for example, hierarchically ranking the consumers and/or determining a clustering of the consumers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Branch Banking & Trust Company
    Inventors: Robert Russell Lawton, Guenther Kurt Hartfeil
  • Publication number: 20130117048
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes novel systems and methods for a customer to receive information and/or purchase a product or service while interacting with multiple vendors through a single contact/agency. The customer is able to communicate with the agency through a variety of communication modes. The agency adapts the customer's input as necessary to meet the requirements of the vendors and the agency returns information to the customer so that the customer can conveniently interact with the multiple vendors. The systems and methods allow for the customer to stop and restart the process at various points using any of the communication modes. The agency has the ability to present the customer with prospecting, sales, service, upgrades, cross-sells, and other pre- and post-purchase services at the single point-of-contact agency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: Branch Banking & Trust Company
    Inventor: Branch Banking & Trust Company
  • Publication number: 20120290332
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes novel systems and methods for a customer to receive information and/or purchase a product or service while interacting with multiple vendors through a single contact/agency. The customer is able to communicate with the agency through a variety of communication modes. The agency adapts the customer's input as necessary to meet the requirements of the vendors and the agency returns information to the customer so that the customer can conveniently interact with the multiple vendors. The systems and methods allow for the customer to stop and restart the process at various points using any of the communication modes. The agency has the ability to present the customer with prospecting, sales, service, upgrades, cross-sells, and other pre- and post-purchase services at the single point-of-contact agency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicant: Branch Banking & Trust
    Inventors: Brandon H. Bradshaw, Kenneth Gray Nester, II, Gregory Velett
  • Patent number: 8306850
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes novel systems and methods that can be utilized to evaluate and/or direct an interaction with a consumer database and/or evaluate a consumer database, where the consumer database contains information about consumers and particular products and/or services held or used by the consumers. The interactions may be, for example, determining a strategy for sales, marketing, cross-selling, and/or retaining one or more of the consumers. The evaluations may include, for example, hierarchically ranking the consumers and/or determining a clustering of the consumers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Branch Banking & Trust Company
    Inventors: Robert Russell Lawton, Guenther Kurt Hartfeil
  • Publication number: 20120053972
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes novel systems and methods that can be utilized to evaluate and/or direct an interaction with a consumer database and/or evaluate a consumer database, where the consumer database contains information about consumers and particular products and/or services held or used by the consumers. The interactions may be, for example, determining a strategy for sales, marketing, cross-selling, and/or retaining one or more of the consumers. The evaluations may include, for example, hierarchically ranking the consumers and/or determining a clustering of the consumers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: Branch Banking & Trust Company
    Inventors: Robert Russell Lawton, Guenther Kurt Hartfeil
  • Publication number: 20120022917
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes novel systems and methods that can be utilized to evaluate and/or direct an interaction with a consumer database and/or evaluate a consumer database, where the consumer database contains information about consumers and particular products and/or services held or used by the consumers. The interactions may be, for example, determining a strategy for sales, marketing, cross-selling, and/or retaining one or more of the consumers. The evaluations may include, for example, hierarchically ranking the consumers and/or determining a clustering of the consumers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: Branch Banking & Trust Company
    Inventors: Robert Russell Lawton, Guenther Kurt Hartfeil
  • Patent number: 8073755
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes novel methods that can be utilized to choose, set up, open, and/or manage an online account at a financial institution. The present disclosure addresses prior art problems of online account opening by describing methods for automating key aspects of the account opening process for customers such as tailoring the presentation of information to the online customer based at least in part on the customer's input, performing suitability checks for the customer based on online products chosen by the customer, presenting cross-sell products to the customer based on information known by the financial institution or currently received from the customer, and allowing a pending customer to complete the online application procedure in the absence of a confirmed identification of the online customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Branch Banking & Trust Company
    Inventors: Teresa Rose, Patricia Kinney, Barbara Whorf, Paal Kaperdal, Douglas Joel Zickafoose
  • Publication number: 20100057599
    Abstract: A method for a business customer interfacing with a financial institution through a computer network is presented. The method includes an early warning evaluation of the customer and/or entities associated with the customer to identify fraudster/abusers and prevent them from opening online accounts at the financial institution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2009
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: Branch Banking & Trust Company
    Inventors: Lori Hall, Alicia Silla, Teresa Rose
  • Publication number: 20100042533
    Abstract: A system and method for a business customer interfacing with a financial institution through a computer network is presented. The method includes a determination of whether the customer is an on-line client of the financial institution, a verification of customer-provided information with a pre-existing client identification profile for the customer, a determination of whether the customer is a sole proprietorship, a determination of the customer's credit score using a set of predetermined criteria, and presenting a set of account options based at least in part on the verification of the customer-provided information and the customer's credit score. Additional customer-provided information may be received and verified and used to enroll the client in one or more programs offered by the financial institution at a predefined level based at least on one or more predetermined factors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Applicant: Branch Banking & Trust Company
    Inventors: Teresa Rose, Lori Hall, Douglas Joel Zickafoose
  • Patent number: 7620580
    Abstract: A system and method that can be utilized to choose, set up, open, and/or manage an online account at a financial institution. The system and method allows for the automating of key aspects of an account opening process for customers such as tailoring the presentation of information to the online customer based at least in part on the customer's input, performing suitability checks for the customer based on online products chosen by the customer, presenting cross-sell products to the customer based on information known by the financial institution or currently received from the customer, and allowing a pending customer to complete the online application procedure in the absence of a confirmed identification of the online customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Assignee: Branch Banking & Trust Company
    Inventors: Teresa Rose, Patricia Kinney, Barbara Whorf, Paal Kaperdal, Douglas Joel Zickafoose