Patents Assigned to ConsumerInfo.com, Inc.
  • Patent number: 9853959
    Abstract: An electronic personal data locker system is described in which personal data is stored, organized, accessed, and/or maintained, among others activities. In an embodiment, the personal data locker system comprises multiple personal data lockers that each store different types of personal information and/or data of a user. The personal data lockers are established by the system and may be integrated with mobile computing devices. The system may enable the sharing of the gathered data with third parties and/or may enable the user to set preferences for what data is to be shared with various third parties. The system may further provide convenience in providing personal data to third parties via a standard application programming interface (API). The system may also enable the finding and/or calculating of user-related insights based on the gathered data through correlation, aggregation, and/or analysis of the user's personal data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: CONSUMERINFO.COM, INC.
    Inventors: Mark Joseph Kapczynski, Michael John Dean
  • Patent number: 9830646
    Abstract: Several credit score management user interfaces that may comprise a credit score thresholds user interface, a credit score alert settings user interface, and several credit score alert notification user interfaces, enable a consumer to set and/or adjust credit score goals and warnings, and credit score alert settings. The credit score threshold visual interface may present one or more credit score thresholds (for credit score goals and/or warnings) for the consumer on a line graph. The consumer may set and/or adjust the credit score thresholds based on touch input. The user interfaces may be updated automatically in real-time in response to the touch input. Alerts may be generated and provided to the consumer based on alert settings, changes to the consumer's credit information, the credit score thresholds, and/or macroeconomic events or factors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: CONSUMERINFO.COM, INC.
    Inventors: Jeremy Wasser, Michelle Felice-Steele, Melinda Nies, Luke Giltner
  • Patent number: 9767513
    Abstract: A card registry system is configured to automatically identify financial card information in one or more credit files associated with a consumer and populate a card registry account of the consumer with the identified financial card information. Once the financial card information has been obtained from the credit file(s), the card registry system may transmit cancellation and/or reissuance requests to the respective card issuers in the instance that one or more cards are compromised, so that the financial cards may be easily and efficiently cancelled and/or reissued at the request of the consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: ConsumerInfo.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Ty Taylor, Michael R. Balducci, Arlene E. Miranda, Laura Gelgand
  • Patent number: 9721147
    Abstract: A digital identity, which may include a user interface that may be displayed on a mobile computing device, may be generated to include information extracted from a physical identification card (e.g., driver license or passport), as well as information regarding validation of the physical identification card and of the consumer's identity. The digital identity may be used in place of the physical identification card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: CONSUMERINFO.COM, INC.
    Inventor: Mark Joseph Kapczynski
  • Patent number: 9710852
    Abstract: A credit report user interface is provided that may comprise a credit event timeline to view events associated with various accounts associated with a consumer. Credit events may be determined by accessing and analyzing a consumer's credit report from one or more of the national credit bureaus. In some embodiments the consumer can see credit events associated with all of the consumer's accounts or only from a limited number of the consumer's accounts. The consumer may also be able to search credit events, sort credit events, view the impact of credit events on one or more of the consumer's credit scores, and view predicted future credit events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: ConsumerInfo.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Thomas Olson, Vijay Prakash Sivaji, Nelson Yu, Ralph Keith Monteath
  • Patent number: 9697568
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for credit dispute processing, resolution, and reporting. Credit dispute resolution requests may be received, processed, and sent to a credit bureau for submission to creditors. Status of credit dispute resolutions may be reported to consumers. If a creditor's response time is longer than its average response time or if a creditor does not respond to a credit dispute resolution request within a regulatory response period, alerts and reports may be sent to consumers to provide consumers with further options.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: CONSUMERINFO.COM, INC.
    Inventor: Herbert Harris Hunt, III
  • Patent number: 9665854
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for generating alerts in association with a request to open an account for an individual. For example, information identifying an individual may be received from a financial entity in association with the financial entity receiving a request to open an account for the individual from a requesting entity. The requesting entity may be a vendor or service provider associated with the financial entity. An electronic notification may then be sent to the individual, which may include a selectable option to indicate that the individual does not authorize opening of the account. In response to receiving an indication that the individual does not authorize opening of the account, notifications may be sent to both the financial entity and the requesting entity indicating that the individual has not authorized opening of the account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: ConsumerInfo.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Burger, Michael John Dean, Mark Joseph Kapczynski, Nelson Yu
  • Patent number: 9654541
    Abstract: A system for aggregating a user's web browsing data which may include cookies placed on a user's computing device from various websites. The system receives authorization from a user to retrieve cookie and other data associated with the user. The system then accesses cookie data and personal data associated with the user. In some embodiments, the aggregation system communicates with websites that placed the cookie data on the user's computer to determine one or more characteristics of the user based on the cookie data (which may be understandable only by the placing website). The system may then provide the user's aggregated data or a portion thereof to requesting entities. The user may have access to a user interface which provides information about the user's aggregated data and allows the user to determine how much information to share with requesting entities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: ConsumerInfo.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Joseph Kapczynski, Michael John Dean
  • Patent number: 9652802
    Abstract: Methods and systems of monitoring and reporting of changes to a user's credit data are provided. One embodiment includes providing a service, hosted by a data server, that allows the user to access the service via a communication terminal. The service may also request enrollment data, including identity verification data, from the user. Further, the service may periodically access and monitor the user's credit data for a change in the user's credit data via a connection between the data server and a credit bureau even if the data server has not received sufficient identity verification data from the user. Additionally, the service may determine whether a change detected in the user's credit data is a significant event. When an event or a significant event in the user's credit data is detected, the service may alert the user of the fact that an event has occurred even if the data server has not received sufficient identity verification data from the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: CONSUMERINFO.COM, INC.
    Inventor: Sheldon Kasower
  • Patent number: 9633322
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for adjustment of difficulty level, quantity, and/or other parameters of knowledge-based authentication. The questions may be asked of a consumer based on one or more generated risk scores associated with the consumer's behavior, which may be derived from information received from the consumer, a representative responsible for entering information regarding the consumer, and/or from the consumer's computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: ConsumerInfo.com, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Burger
  • Patent number: 9607336
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for generating and delivering an alert to an individual regarding a credit inquiry. For example, an inquiry request may be received that includes a request for credit data associated with an individual. An alert may then be generated and provided to the individual based on retrieved contact information associated with the individual. In some embodiments, the alert is generated regardless of whether the inquiry causes a change to credit data associated with the individual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: ConsumerInfo.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael John Dean, Mark Joseph Kapczynski
  • Patent number: 9576030
    Abstract: Consumers often desire to compare themselves to other individuals. Disclosed herein are systems and methods of generating and displaying comparison information to users so that they can determine if they are “keeping up with the Joneses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: CONSUMERINFO.COM, INC.
    Inventor: Mark Joseph Kapczynski
  • Patent number: 9569797
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a computer system receives credit information relating to a consumer, and calculates a credit score associated with the consumer. The system constructs a credit score scenario user interface. The system maintains a plurality of credit score simulation scenarios, and calculates a plurality of simulated credit scores associated with respective credit score simulation scenarios. The system also constructs a credit score simulation control interface. The system maintains a plurality of credit score simulation parameters, and generates a user interface with a graphical indication of the calculated credit score and a plurality of sliders, each slider being divided into segments that are colored to graphically indicate the likely effect of repositioning the slider within the respective segment. When the user repositions the sliders, the graphical indication of the calculated credit score is adjusted, based on a recalculation of the credit score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: CONSUMERINFO.COM, INC.
    Inventors: Janice Anne Rohn, Julia E. Fegel, Jeffrey Bryan Mahacek, Michael Burger
  • Patent number: 9558519
    Abstract: A computing device is configured to acquire or access credit or reporting data associated with a consumer. The computing device then is configured to analyze the credit or reporting data to determine reporting cycles for accounts associated with the consumer. For example, the computing device may determine that credit information for a particular account may be updated at a regular interval (e.g., once a month on the 3rd) or some other more complex cycle. The computing device can subsequently used the determined reporting cycles to predict the next reporting dates for respective accounts and provide the information, for instance, to the consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: ConsumerInfo.com, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Burger
  • Patent number: 9542682
    Abstract: A card registry system is configured to automatically identify financial card information in one or more credit files associated with a consumer and populate a card registry account of the consumer with the identified financial card information. Once the financial card information has been obtained from the credit file(s), the card registry system may transmit cancellation and/or reissuance requests to the respective card issuers in the instance that one or more cards are compromised, so that the financial cards may be easily and efficiently cancelled and/or reissued at the request of the consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: ConsumerInfo.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Ty Taylor, Michael R. Balducci, Arlene E. Miranda, Laura Gelgand
  • Patent number: 9542553
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a computing system, such as a monitoring computer, receives a request from a user to monitor an account of the user with an online service provider. The request may include personal information and user preferences for one or more protective actions. The system periodically monitors external data sources for indications of changes to personal information associated with the account, and detects changes or attempted changes to personal information associated with the account. The system may determine risk levels associated with detected changes or attempted changes, and transmit a notification to the user via a communication channel selected based on the determined risk level and/or the user preferences. The system may also initiate protective actions, so that further unauthorized access to the account may be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Consumerinfo.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Burger, Mark Joseph Kapczynski
  • Patent number: 9536263
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed that identify and locate debt settlement candidates based on credit data associated with the consumer. For example, candidacy may be based on a debt score, generated by an assessment of the consumer's credit data. Credit data may include the consumer's credit score rank, credit score, revolving credit to debit ratio, credit available, delinquent accounts, negative accounts, instances of negative information on their credit report, public record data, average account age, debit, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: ConsumerInfo.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael John Dean, Mark Joseph Kapczynski
  • Patent number: 9483606
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed that generate life scores for individuals based on various information associated with the individuals. For example, life scores may be based on data associated with several aspects of the individual's life, such as work, family, hobbies, education, etc. The life scores may be generated in realtime and/or periodically and provided to the individual and/or shared with others in various formats.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: CONSUMERINFO.COM, INC.
    Inventors: Michael John Dean, Mark Joseph Kapczynski
  • Patent number: 9477737
    Abstract: A computing system is configured to access a plurality of remote databases in order to identify data inconsistencies between the remote databases and provide user interfaces to a user in order to initiate communication via one or more APIs to certain remote databases indicating updates that reconcile said data inconsistencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: CONSUMERINFO.COM, INC.
    Inventors: Mike Charyk, Nelson Yu
  • Patent number: 9443268
    Abstract: A system for processing bill payments from a consumer to one or more creditors may provide the consumer with a credit report and options to make payments on tradelines present on the credit report. The system may also report the payment information to one or more credit bureaus. Additionally, the system may automatically identify the consumer's accounts, enroll the consumer in online bill payment with creditors, provide account alerts, recommend payments, provide access to electronic statements, and/or provide contextual action buttons for the consumer's accounts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: ConsumerInfo.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Joseph Kapczynski, Michael John Dean