Patents Assigned to Citicorp Credit Services, Inc. (USA)
  • Patent number: 9639621
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods and systems for creating and managing website content involve, for example, providing a user at a computer terminal a data capture template for a user-selected content type, providing the user at the computer terminal presentation pages using content management tags, allowing the user at the computer terminal to author content using the data capture template, and allowing the user at the computer terminal to deploy the content to a server. Other aspects of the methods and systems for creating and managing website content include, for example, allowing the user to personalize content, allowing the user to embed dynamic content in the middle of static content, allowing the user to refresh the deployed content in real-time without impacting current existing user sessions on the server where content is being deployed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: CITICORP CREDIT SERVICES, INC. (USA)
    Inventors: France Law-How-Hung, Sam Shahdousti, Patrick Law, Anna Putnam, Peter Lomenzo
  • Patent number: 9607292
    Abstract: Methods and systems for controlling certificate-based open payment transactions involving a merchant and a customer utilizing various types of networks and terminals. Prior to accessing a merchant POS terminal or, for example, a merchant website, a customer obtains a certificate from a service provider (SP), such as a bank, certifying his identification (ID) and his relevant financial information, in a form that is understandable by the SP. The SP is capable of performing multiple functions. For example, the SP is capable of acting as a certificate authority when it issues the customer's certificates, an authenticator when it receives private-key encrypted certificates from the customers to be decrypted using the corresponding public-key, and an authorizing authority when it checks the value available in a customer' chosen payment account against the requested purchase or transfer amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Citicorp Credit Services, Inc. (USA)
    Inventors: Joseph C. Kawan, Ronald King-Hang Chu, Charles Golvin, Peter Tompkins
  • Patent number: 9558495
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system for managing transaction card accounts involves enabling a transaction card account by a card issuer for use with pre-defined categories of providers of goods/services and goods/services sold and issuing a transaction card and establishing an associated pre-qualified category card account. Upon receiving data for a transaction with the transaction card at a transaction terminal by a processing platform of the card issuer via a card association processing network, the category of the provider and goods/services is interrogated to determine whether or not the transaction can be posted on the pre-qualified category card account of the cardholder, and the transaction is approved and posted to the pre-qualified category card account if the transaction falls within the pre-qualified category of the cardholder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Citicorp Credit Services, Inc. (USA)
    Inventor: William Johnson
  • Patent number: 9378490
    Abstract: A method and system provides for scanning a check and/or cash to create an electronic image of the front and the back of the check and/or cash. The image is then processed and transmitted electronically to a central location. The image may be recreated into a paper form at the central location, resembling the original paper check or cash, including a machine-readable regeneration of the MICR code line data captured from the original instrument. Paperless processing of checks and cash is thus provided, including local voiding and storage of the check without requiring immediate pickup, while still allowing the transaction to be process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Citicorp Credit Services, Inc. (USA)
    Inventors: Alan Slater, Michael L. Sears, Phoebe Rin-Rin Hsu, Cuong D. Do, H. Patrick McSharry, Edward M. R. Dudasik, Stephen M. Gryte, Robert O. Brooks
  • Patent number: 9369452
    Abstract: A system and method whereby an unregistered, anonymous user at an organization's website makes a submission/inquiry and is able to access a secure response containing private information without pre-registering or establishing an account with the organization. A response to the user is made via an unsecured e-mail notification that provides the user with an HTTPS link to an authentication page. The user then enters his/her user identification, for example, the user email address and password which was associated with the original submission/inquiry. Once the email address and password is authenticated, the secure response message is displayed on the user's web browser in SSL. Each response is provided on a per-submission basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Citicorp Credit Services, Inc. (USA)
    Inventors: Sikun Lan, Yong K. Huang, Kent Frazier, Roy Sykes, Joseph Zusman
  • Patent number: 9223891
    Abstract: Methods and systems for generating and reusing dynamic web content involve, for example, automatically generating client-side code on a server at run time, and automatically downloading the client-side code to the client side at run time. The client-side code is executed on the client side to become a widget with dynamic behavior attributes displayed as a component of a web page on a display screen of a client-side computing device. Dynamic behavior of the client-side code may triggered via an event handler mechanism wherein properties of the client-side code are dynamically changed without affecting any other content on the web page. The widget may be redisplayed on a subsequent occasion with a change in the widget without regenerating the client-side code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Citicorp Credit Services, Inc. (USA)
    Inventors: France Law-How-Hung, Ramadurai V. Ram
  • Patent number: 9129279
    Abstract: A financial institution can provide financial services to a plurality of remote devices, such as personal computers, personal data assistants, screen phones, automatic teller machines, external service providers, and internally to staff terminals and individual branches. By separating the components of the system into independent components, the system and method can be developed and tested on a component level rather than the entire system level, thereby reducing the development and maintenance cycle time. The system and method operate in sessions and can employ a dialog component for gathering information from a customer, a rule broker component for providing answers to the various legal and regulatory rules in a particular country, a language man component for selecting appropriate language, a transaction executor component for performing transactions, and a presentation manager component for formatting outputs to the customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Citicorp Credit Services, Inc. (USA)
    Inventors: James Zeanah, Charles Abbott, Nik Boyd, Albert Cohen, James Cook, Michael Grandcolas, Sikun Lan, Bonnie Lindsley, Grigor Markarian, Leslie Moss
  • Patent number: 9002750
    Abstract: For secure user authentication using a one-time password (OTP) application is pre-stored on a device for generating a OTP value responsive to entry of a valid PIN, no part of the PIN is stored on the device and pre-storing on a server the PIN and a valid shared secret for the user. Upon receiving entry a purported PIN, a purported shared secret is dynamically synthesized on the device by the OTP application based on the purported PIN of the user and a purported OTP value is generated based on the purported shared secret. When entry of the purported OTP value is received by the server in an attempt to log on the server from another device, the server cryptographically calculates a purported shared secret based on the purported OTP value, and log on to the server from the other device is allowed if the calculated purported shared secret corresponds to the pre-stored shared secret.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Citicorp Credit Services, Inc. (USA)
    Inventors: Ronald King-Hang Chu, Mark Kogen, Warren Tan, Simon Ma, Yosif Smushkovich, Gerry Glindro, Jeffrey William Coyte Nicholas