Patents Assigned to Experian Information Solutions, Inc.
  • Patent number: 12265578
    Abstract: Embodiments of a system may comprise databases and a processor that receives a first filter item and a database filter item, generates a first database based on the first filter item, integrate data from the first database into the user database to create an updated plurality of user records, generate a second database based on a selected set of records, in the updated plurality of user records, corresponding to the database filter item, determine metrics that correspond to the second database, generate a model to segregate the second database using the metrics, receive criteria, compare the segregated second database with the criteria to remove records that do not meet the criteria, cause a subsequent update to the updated second database to integrate data from the event database to create an updated diminished second database, and generate a notification including information included in the updated diminished second database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Experian Information Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Erik Peter Hjermstad, Tony T. Morris, Jennifer Kuhr Schwartz, Heidi Beth Haupt
  • Patent number: 12216680
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for securely replicating data, such as from an on-premises database to remote network-accessible storage, with high throughput and robust security mechanisms. Messages or events may be published via a first message queue service, such as an on-premises message queue service, that are then encrypted, optionally at the field level, before being passed to a managed message queue service. The encrypted messages may then be processed by a replication application configured to split batches of messages into sub-batches that are processed in parallel before being committed to a managed database at the batch level as individual batches complete processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Experian Information Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Moied Mohammed Abdul Wahid, Xun Lai, Binh Nguyen
  • Patent number: 12205138
    Abstract: Selection strategies for a direct marketing campaign that identifies consumers from a credit bureau or other consumer database are refined on a stable subset of the credit database. Once refined, consumer selection criteria may be used to execute the direct marketing campaign on the full consumer/credit database. The data for the test database represents a random sampling of approximately 10% of the full database and the sampling is regenerated approximately weekly in order to provide a stable set of data on which campaign developers test their campaign. For each consumer in the sampling, the environment allows a client to access and use attributes calculated by the credit bureau and proprietary attributes and data owned by the client. The system allows for a plurality of clients to use the system substantially simultaneously while protecting the privacy and integrity of the client's proprietary data and results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Experian Information Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Laura J. DeSoto, Michele M. Pearson, Kristi Ann Adkinson, Venkat R. Achanta, Felicia Peng
  • Patent number: 12169529
    Abstract: One aspect of the subject matter described herein comprises a database management system. The database management system comprises a communication circuit, an interface, and a processor. The communication circuit receives information from databases via a communication network. The interface allows user operation and interaction via the communication network and the database management system. The processor provides data to and receives data from the interface, including a plurality of alphanumeric records comprising at least one unique identifier, obtains database records from other databases for each unique identifier, identifies a number of alphanumeric records in the plurality having events in their histories, determines a percentage of alphanumeric records in the plurality having negative events in their histories, generates a report including the determined percentages, and conveys the report to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: EXPERIAN INFORMATION SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Kirsten Marie Von Busch, Ryan B. Cain, Dominic Edward DeGuiseppe, Wen Zhang, Erik Peter Hjermstad
  • Patent number: 12132837
    Abstract: Embodiments include a method for providing tokens which includes: receiving from a user system an encrypted data packet including user credentials and a request for an authentication token to access protected resources; extracting the user's security information; transmitting a data packet to a security and access management system, where the data packet includes the user's security information and a request for user validation; receiving, from the security and access management system, user validation and additional data; generating a thin token and a fat token; storing the thin token in association with the fat token; transmitting the thin token to the user system; receiving, from the user system, a request to access protected resources from a protected resource system, the request including the thin token; validating the received thin token; accessing the fat token associated with the thin token; and transmitting the fat token to the protected resource system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Experian Information Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Alpa Modi Jain, Praveen Kumar Soni, Frederic Vander Elst
  • Patent number: 12099940
    Abstract: The features relate to artificial intelligence directed detection of user behavior based on complex analysis of user event data including language modeling to generate distributed representations of user behavior. Further features are described for reducing the amount of data needed to represent relationships between events such as transaction events received from card readers or point of sale systems. Machine learning features for dynamically determining an optimal set of attributes to use as the language model as well as for comparing current event data to historical event data are also included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Experian Information Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Chen, Mason Carpenter, Shanji Xiong, Honghao Shan, Hua Li, Olcay Boz, Zhixuan Wang
  • Patent number: 12073448
    Abstract: One embodiment of the system and method described herein provides a computer system configured to provide an interface for operation by a user at a remote computing device, receive a request from the user for a vehicle history report of a vehicle. The computer system is further configured to prompt the user for interest in a prequalification for a financing offer. The computer system is further configured to receive the indication of the user's interest in the prequalification. The system also includes a data storage module, accessible by the computer system, configured to retrieve data corresponding to the vehicle, store the retrieved data, retrieve data corresponding to a determination regarding the prequalification for the financing offer, and store the retrieved determination. The computer system is further configured to convey the vehicle history report to the user and convey the prequalification determination to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Experian Information Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan B. Cain, Will Hope, Kirsten Von Busch, Dominic Edward DeGuiseppe
  • Patent number: 12066990
    Abstract: Embodiments include a search and match computing system configured to: access, from a third party computing system, a query regarding at least one entity; determine if the query is a structured query or an unstructured query; process the query with at least one of an application programming interface configured to receive structured queries or a second application programming interface receive unstructured queries; initiate a search and match application configured to execute queries on at least one of: a relational data scheme or a non-relational data scheme; receive search results from the at least one of: the relational data scheme or the non-relational data scheme; and process the received search results to generate an output data packet for access by the third party computing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Experian Information Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Mary Ann Ortega Rodriguez, Helen Kaminsky, Manas Kumar Das, Maneesh Raswan
  • Patent number: 12019689
    Abstract: Embodiments of a system may comprise databases and a processor that receives a first filter item and a database filter item, generates a first database based on the first filter item, integrate data from the first database into the user database to create an updated plurality of user records, generate a second database based on a selected set of records, in the updated plurality of user records, corresponding to the database filter item, determine metrics that correspond to the second database, generate a model to segregate the second database using the metrics, receive criteria, compare the segregated second database with the criteria to remove records that do not meet the criteria, cause a subsequent update to the updated second database to integrate data from the event database to create an updated diminished second database, and generate a notification including information included in the updated diminished second database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Experian Information Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Erik Peter Hjermstad, Tony T. Morris, Jennifer Kuhr Schwartz, Heidi Beth Haupt
  • Patent number: 11962681
    Abstract: Features for providing a secure method of symmetric encryption for private smart contacts among multiple parties in a private peer-to-peer network. The features include a master key representing a unique blockchain ledger. The master key may be shared among multiple participants in a private peer-to-peer network. Sharing of the master key may include communicating the master key in an encrypted message (e.g., email) using public key infrastructure (PKI). In some implementations, more complex distribution features may be includes such as quantum entanglement. The features support instantiation of a smart contract using a specific master key. The request may be submitted as an entry to the ledger with appropriate metadata and/or payload information for identifying and processing the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Experian Information Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Vijay Mehta, Alexander Phan
  • Patent number: 11954731
    Abstract: Embodiments of a system and method are described for generating a finance attribute. In one embodiment, the systems and methods retrieve raw tradeline data from a plurality of credit bureaus, retrieve industry code data related to each of the plurality of credit bureaus, determine one or more tradeline leveling characteristics that meet at least one pre-determined threshold, and generate a finance attribute using the selected leveling characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Experian Information Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Luz M. Torrez, Adam Thomas Kornegay
  • Patent number: 11954089
    Abstract: A data processing system is disclosed for accessing databases and updated data items and triggering event notifications. The data processing system may comprise a first database including a plurality of records, and a second database including a plurality of trigger indicators. The database system may further include a hardware processor configured to execute computer-executable instructions in order to: receive an update data item; identify a record corresponding to the update data item; cause an update to the record based on information included with the update data item; identify a trigger indicator corresponding to the update to the record; determine that a type of the trigger indicator matches a type of the update to the record; and generate an event notification including information included in the update.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: EXPERIAN INFORMATION SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Rollin M. Girulat, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11941065
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for generating record clusters. The methods comprise receiving a plurality of records from data sources and providing at least a subset of the records to a scoring model that determines scores for various pairings of the records, a score for a given pair of the records representing a probability that the given pair of records contain data elements about the same entity. The method further comprises generating a graph data structure that includes a plurality of nodes, individual nodes representing a different record from the records. The method also comprises assigning a different unique identifier to individual clusters of the final clusters and responding to a request for data regarding a given entity by providing aggregated data elements from those records of the records associated with a cluster of the final clusters having an identifier that represents the given entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Experian Information Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Hua Li, Sophie Liu, Yi He, Zhixuan Wang, Chi Zhang, Kevin Chen, Shanji Xiong, Christer Dichiara, Mason Carpenter, Mark Hirn, Julian Yarkony
  • Patent number: 11941635
    Abstract: Embodiments of an electronic fraud analysis platform system are disclosed which may be used to analyze tax returns for potential fraud. Analysis of tax return data using the tax return analysis platform computing systems and methods discussed herein may provide insight into whether a tax return may be fraudulent based on, for example, an initial screening component configured to filter tax returns which appear fraudulent due to missing or inaccurate information provided with the return; a device activity analysis component configured to identify whether a device used to submit a tax return or to provide further authentication information needed to complete processing of the return may have been used in other fraudulent activities; and a knowledge-based authentication component configured to identify potential fraudsters using dynamically generated questions for which fraudsters typically do not know the answers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Experian Information Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Neli Coleman, Lloyd Laudorn, Raymond Martin Boileau
  • Patent number: 11886519
    Abstract: One aspect of the subject matter described herein comprises a database management system. The database management system comprises a communication circuit, an interface, and a processor. The communication circuit receives information from databases via a communication network. The interface allows user operation and interaction via the communication network and the database management system. The processor provides data to and receives data from the interface, including a plurality of alphanumeric records comprising at least one unique identifier, obtains database records from other databases for each unique identifier, identifies a number of alphanumeric records in the plurality having events in their histories, determines a percentage of alphanumeric records in the plurality having negative events in their histories, generates a report including the determined percentages, and conveys the report to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: EXPERIAN INFORMATION SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Kirsten Marie Von Busch, Ryan B. Cain, Dominic Edward DeGuiseppe, Wen Zhang, Erik Peter Hjermstad
  • Patent number: 11880377
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for identifying a target entity that a user intends to refer to based on input that may include only a partial name of the entity. A system may receive a user's entity search query, which may include a partial entity name, then may determine initial candidate matching entities and associated name match scores for each of the initial candidate matching entities relative to the input string, such as using string matching or fuzzy matching techniques. The system may apply a probability match model to generate an overall match score for individual ones of the initial candidate matching entities, then may generate a response to the entity search query that includes information regarding one or more of the initial candidate matching entities with an overall match score exceeding a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Experian Information Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Tsang, Zehua Guo, Derek John Toub, Mustafa Yakub Adib, Yue Yu, Shervin Sharifi, Christer Dichiara, Hua Li, Wis Kojohnjaratkul, Stuart Anthony Mathews
  • Patent number: 11861756
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for identifying a subset of interest from a general population and for monitoring a database of daily activity logs associated with the general population in order to identify database entries indicative of an occurrence of a pre-defined trigger event that is associated with a member of the subset of interest. In particular, systems and methods are described that allow a massive database of daily activity logs to be monitored to identify trigger events that have occurred within the past twenty-four hours or other very recent time period. Embodiments are described that may be advantageously used by a provider of credit-related products and/or services who wishes to accurately target prospective customers, identified by the system, based on occurrence of a trigger event, as being in a decision-making phase of credit shopping, for purposes of making a timely and targeted offering relevant to the customers' current activities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Experian Information Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Armando Ramos, Stephen R. Meeks, Michele M. Pearson, Pamela Fielding
  • Patent number: 11847693
    Abstract: One embodiment of a system for automatically generating code for attributes includes a credit bureau data store that stores credit bureau convention information and an attribute generation system that communicates with the credit data store to detect rules associated with respective credit bureaus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Experian Information Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Hua Hu, Luz M. Torrez
  • Patent number: 11803873
    Abstract: Embodiments of system are disclosed in which selection strategies for a direct marketing campaign that identify consumers from a credit bureau or other consumer database can be planned, tested, and/or refined on a stable subset of the credit database. In some embodiments, once refined, consumer selection criteria may be used to execute the direct marketing campaign on the full consumer/credit database, which is preferably updated approximately twice weekly. In one preferred embodiment, the data for the test database represents a random sampling of approximately 10% of the full database and the sampling is regenerated approximately weekly in order to provide a stable set of data on which campaign developers may test their campaign. For each consumer in the sampling, the environment may allow a client to access and use both attributes calculated by the credit bureau and proprietary attributes and data owned by the client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Experian Information Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Laura J. DeSoto, Michele M. Pearson, Kristi Ann Adkinson, Venkat R. Achanta, Felicia Peng
  • Patent number: 11790269
    Abstract: Embodiments of a system may comprise databases and a processor that accesses a first database and verifies that each of the plurality of client records conforms to a set of formatting guidelines and filters the records in the first database into a vehicle data subfile and a client data subfile, monitors the records in the vehicle and client data subfiles for a trigger event, generates one or more dynamic models for determining a likelihood that a client will perform an action based on the trigger event, applies the generated dynamic model(s) to generate at least one score value associated with the record including the trigger event, and generates a notification including one or more of the generated at least one score value, the one or more trigger event records, and information associated with the one or more trigger event records for transmission to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Experian Information Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Erik Peter Hjermstad, Tony T. Morris, Heidi Beth Haupt, Jennifer Kuhr Schwartz