Patents Assigned to Early Warning Services, LLC.
  • Publication number: 20240378616
    Abstract: A system comprising one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform various acts. The acts can include: (a) receiving, through an electronic network, a payment authorization from a sender financial institution and on behalf of the sender; (b) obtaining a sender status of the sender based on sender information of the sender associated with the payment authorization; (c) when the sender status is preauthorized: instructing, through the electronic network, a recipient financial institution to bypass a transaction fraud detection mechanism associated with the sender and instructing, through the electronic network, the recipient financial institution to post a payment amount to a recipient account at the recipient financial institution. Other embodiments are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: Early Warning Services, LLC
    Inventor: Laura Weinflash
  • Publication number: 20240370852
    Abstract: A method including receiving a unique identifier for a user. The method also can include determining, using a wallet directory, a shared wallet associated with the unique identifier. The shared wallet can include identifying information for cards issued from multiple different issuers. The method additionally can include sending the identifying information for the cards to enable the user to select one of the cards for a first transaction at a first merchant. The method further can include obtaining information about a first selected card of the cards based on a selection from the user. The method additionally can include requesting a first payment authorization token for the first selected card from a wallet network system. The method further can include sending the first payment authorization token to enable the first merchant to process the first transaction using the first selected card. Other embodiments of related systems and methods are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: EARLY WARNING SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Greg Slowiak, Michael Dempsey, James Anderson, Matthew Miller
  • Publication number: 20240346479
    Abstract: A method including obtaining a unique identifier for a user. The method also can include causing an authentication code to be sent to a device of the user. The method additionally can include receiving, through a first user interface displayed to the user, the authentication code. The method further can include displaying, to the user through the first user interface, a list of cards in a shared wallet for the user. The cards can be issued from multiple different issuers. The shared wallet can be accessible to multiple different merchants. The method additionally can include receiving, through the first user interface displayed to the user, a selection from the user of a selected card from the list of the cards for processing a transaction. The method further can include providing card information for the selected card to a merchant for processing the transaction. Other embodiments of related systems and methods are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: EARLY WARNING SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Greg Slowiak, Michael Dempsey, James Anderson, Matthew Miller, Laura Menken
  • Patent number: 12111896
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an identity network that can provide a universal, digital identity for users that can be used to authenticate the user by an identity provider for relying parties to utilize for confirming the identity of the user during sign-up. The identity network receives a request from a relying party that includes deep linking to an identity provider selected by the user. The request specifies the user and any other information about the user the relying party is requesting. A service of the identity network launches the application for the identity provider on the user's device and the user logs into the identity provider's application, which provides the user authentication/validation and information about the user to the identity network. The identity network can then provide the information to the relying party, which the relying party can rely on for creating an account with the relying party for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Early Warning Services, LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Slowiak, Eric Woodward, Philip Lam, Jeff Shultz
  • Patent number: 12079369
    Abstract: A synthetic identity detection network may include a communications interface, one or more processors, and a memory having instructions stored thereon. The instructions cause the processors to receive a data inquiry from a requesting system. The data inquiry may include personally identifiable information (PII) data associated with a user. The instructions cause the processors to match the PII data to a plurality of user identities. Each user identity may be associated with at least a portion of the PII data. The instructions cause the processors to identify account statuses associated with accounts associated with the user identities. The instructions cause the processors to generate a code based at least in part on a count of the user identities and the account statuses. The code provides an indication of a likelihood of the user being a synthetic identity. The instructions cause the processors to transmit the code to the requesting system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Early Warning Services, LLC
    Inventors: Dan Hayden, Sandra Letterly, Robin Love, Matt Cottrell
  • Patent number: 12045824
    Abstract: A system including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform various acts. The acts can include: (a) receiving a payment authorization, through a network, from a sender financial institution; (b) obtaining, in real-time after receiving the payment authorization, a sender status based on sender information of the payment authorization; (c) when the sender status is preauthorized, instructing, through the network and in real-time after obtaining the sender status, a recipient financial institution to bypass a transaction fraud detection mechanism; and (d) instructing, through the network, the recipient financial institution to post a payment amount of the payment authorization to a recipient account in real-time. Other embodiments are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: EARLY WARNING SERVICES, LLC
    Inventor: Laura Weinflash
  • Publication number: 20240220729
    Abstract: A method of providing sentiment analysis includes training a computer system to identify a polarity of a sentiment for a plurality of phrases and receiving, at the computer system, an input from a website. The input includes a text string including a phrase. The method includes determining, by the computer system, the polarity of the sentiment of the phrase by comparing the phrase to the plurality of phrases and sending, by the computer system, a command to the website that causes the website to display predetermined content based on the determined polarity of the sentiment of the phrase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2024
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: Early Warning Services, LLC
    Inventors: Edwin F. Campos Ortega, Eric D. First, Deepakshi Aswal, Jie He
  • Publication number: 20240220589
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an identity network that provides a universal, digital identity for users to be authenticated by an identity provider for relying parties upon sign-in to the relying party. The identity network receives the sign-in request from a relying party for a user using a user device. The identity network can provide a session identifier to the relying party for the request and launch an identity provider application associated with the user via a software development kit in the relying party application. The user may sign-in to the identity provider via the software development kit, thereby authenticating the user for the relying party. Additionally, the identity provider may generate a risk validation score and provide it to the relying party that provides a confidence value that the user is validly using the user device and a risk score based on device activity on the identity network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2024
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: Early Warning Services, LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Slowiak, Eric Woodward, Philip Lam, Jeff Shultz
  • Publication number: 20240211913
    Abstract: A system including one or more processors, a merchant account database including a plurality of merchant identifiers being associated with a plurality of merchants, a plurality of account identifiers associated with the plurality of merchants, and a mapping associating the plurality of merchant identifiers with the plurality of account identifiers, a transaction database and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform certain operations. The operations can include receiving, at the system and based on a consumer using a mobile device to initiate a payment for one or more items to be purchased from a merchant by the consumer for a payment amount, a message including a merchant identifier of the plurality of merchant identifiers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2024
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicant: Early Warning Services, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Finch, Lou Anne Alexander
  • Publication number: 20240193305
    Abstract: A compromised data exchange system extracts data from websites using a crawler, detects portions within the extracted data that resemble personally identifying information (PII) data based on PII data patterns using a risk assessment module, and compares a detected portion to data within a database of disassociated compromised PII data to determine a match using the risk assessment module. A risk score may be assigned to a data item within the database in response to determining the match. In some embodiments, URL data may also be detected in the extracted data. The detected URL data represents further websites that can be automatically crawled by the system to detect further PII data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2024
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: Early Warning Services, LLC
    Inventors: Lester Leland Lockhart, III, David Hugh Munson, Gregor R. Bonin, Michael Cook
  • Publication number: 20240195886
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for implementing reciprocal data sharing in a data exchange system. Limitations may be placed on the amount of data an exchange member may access based on the amount of data contributed. The system may include determining a data contribution associated with a first member of the data exchange, determining a data access limit for the first member based on the data contribution, and providing data to the first member when the first member has not exceeded the data access limit. In some embodiments, there may be separate data access limits for each member of the data exchange, so that a first member may have different access limits when accessing data from a second member, data from a third member, and data from a fourth member. Further, the system may limit a requester to a type of data that corresponds to the type of data contributed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2024
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: Early Warning Services, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Cook, Gregor R. Bonin, Aaron Antonio Rodriguez
  • Publication number: 20240129311
    Abstract: Described herein is an identity network for validating the digital identity of a user. The identity network may receive, from a relying party, an identity validation request to validate a digital identity of the user. The identity network may provide, to the relying party, a link associated with an identity provider application based on the identity validation request. The identity network may receive, from an identity provider associated with the identity provider application, a confirmation that the user has successfully accessed the identity provider application via the link. After receiving the confirmation, the identity network may receive from the identity provider, an attribute validation request to validate identity attributes of the user, where the attribute validation request includes a plurality of identity attributes of the user. The identity network may validate the digital identity of the user based on the plurality of identity attributes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Early Warning Services, LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Slowiak, Eric Woodward, Philip Lam, Jeff Shultz
  • Patent number: 11948148
    Abstract: A method including receiving a request based on a sender initiating a funds transfer, wherein the funds transfer is for the sender to make a payment to a non-financial institution. The sender has a sender account at a sender financial institution. The method also can include obtaining sender identifying information from the sender. The method additionally can include sending at least a recipient public identifier and a payment amount for the payment to the sender financial institution to cause the sender financial institution to send a funds transfer request to a computer-implemented funds transfer network to initiate the payment from the sender account at the sender financial institution to a recipient account at a recipient financial institution. The funds transfer request does not include an account number of the recipient account. The computer-implemented funds transfer network is operated by an entity that is different from the recipient financial institution and the sender financial institution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: EARLY WARNING SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Clinton Gilliam, III, Melissa Lowry, Michael Joseph Kennedy, Sergei Lilichenko
  • Patent number: 11941093
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an identity network that provides a universal, digital identity for users to be authenticated by an identity provider for relying parties upon sign-in to the relying party. The identity network receives the sign-in request from a relying party for a user using a user device. The identity network can provide a session identifier to the relying party for the request and launch an identity provider application associated with the user via a software development kit in the relying party application. The user may sign-in to the identity provider via the software development kit, thereby authenticating the user for the relying party. Additionally, the identity provider may generate a risk validation score and provide it to the relying party that provides a confidence value that the user is validly using the user device and a risk score based on device activity on the identity network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Early Warning Services, LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Slowiak, Eric Woodward, Philip Lam, Jeff Shultz
  • Patent number: 11941362
    Abstract: A method of providing sentiment analysis includes training a computer system to identify a polarity of a sentiment for a plurality of phrases and receiving, at the computer system, an input from a website. The input includes a text string including a phrase. The method includes determining, by the computer system, the polarity of the sentiment of the phrase by comparing the phrase to the plurality of phrases and sending, by the computer system, a command to the website that causes the website to display predetermined content based on the determined polarity of the sentiment of the phrase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Early Warning Services, LLC
    Inventors: Edwin F. Campos Ortega, Eric D. First, Deepakshi Aswal, Jie He
  • Patent number: 11928245
    Abstract: A compromised data exchange system extracts data from websites using a crawler, detects portions within the extracted data that resemble personally identifying information (PII) data based on PII data patterns using a risk assessment module, and compares a detected portion to data within a database of disassociated compromised PII data to determine a match using the risk assessment module. A risk score may be assigned to a data item within the database in response to determining the match. In some embodiments, URL data may also be detected in the extracted data. The detected URL data represents further websites that can be automatically crawled by the system to detect further PII data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Early Warning Services, LLC
    Inventors: Lester Leland Lockhart, III, David Hugh Munson, Gregor R. Bonin, Michael Cook
  • Publication number: 20240078547
    Abstract: A method including sending a registration request comprising a public identifier of a user to a computer-implemented funds transfer network to cause the computer-implemented funds transfer network to send a message to the user using the public identifier of the user to perform a validation that the public identifier is usable to contact the user. The registration request is a request to register an account of the user for real-time payments through the computer-implemented funds transfer network. The method also can include sending a confirmation message to the computer-implemented funds transfer network to validate that the public identifier is usable to contact the user and to cause the computer-implemented funds transfer network to register the user by storing a record in a directory of the computer-implemented funds transfer network that associates the public identifier with a private identifier. The private identifier is associated with the account of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Early Warning Services, LLC
    Inventors: Clinton Gilliam, III, Melissa Lowry, Michael Joseph Kennedy, Sergei Lilichenko
  • Patent number: 11922387
    Abstract: A system including one or more processors, a merchant account database including a plurality of merchant identifiers being associated with a plurality of merchants, a transaction database, and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform certain acts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: EARLY WARNING SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Finch, Lou Anne Alexander
  • Patent number: 11909846
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for implementing reciprocal data sharing in a data exchange system. Limitations may be placed on the amount of data an exchange member may access based on the amount of data contributed. The system may include determining a data contribution associated with a first member of the data exchange, determining a data access limit for the first member based on the data contribution, and providing data to the first member when the first member has not exceeded the data access limit. In some embodiments, there may be separate data access limits for each member of the data exchange, so that a first member may have different access limits when accessing data from a second member, data from a third member, and data from a fourth member. Further, the system may limit a requester to a type of data that corresponds to the type of data contributed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Early Warning Services, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Cook, Gregor R. Bonin, Aaron Antonio Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 11900453
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an identity network that provides a universal, digital identity for users to be authenticated by an identity provider for relying parties upon sign-in to the relying party. The identity network receives the sign-in request from a relying party for a user using a user device. The identity network can provide a session identifier to the relying party for the request and launch an identity provider application associated with the user via a software development kit in the relying party application. The user may sign-in to the identity provider via the software development kit, thereby authenticating the user for the relying party. Additionally, the identity provider may generate a risk validation score and provide it to the relying party that provides a confidence value that the user is validly using the user device and a risk score based on device activity on the identity network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Early Warning Services, LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Slowiak, Eric Woodward, Philip Lam, Jeff Shultz