Patents Assigned to Freddie Mac
  • Patent number: 7974854
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for providing, based on a model, an indication that an appraisal value for a property is likely to be faulty. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving information representative of at least one of a borrower, a property, or one or more demographics, such that the received information corresponds to a date. The method determines a score based on the received information and the model, such that the score provides the indication of the likelihood that the appraisal value was faulty on the date.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac)
    Inventors: Michael G. Bradley, J. Douglas Gordon, Pamela W. Sims, Douglas A. McManus, Morgan C. Snyder, Mathew J. Klena
  • Patent number: 7945510
    Abstract: Systems and methods consistent with the present invention provide a mortgage with a primary credit line and a sliding credit line, such that the borrower may request to borrow from the sliding credit line as part of the original mortgage. A level of risk associated with the borrower may be determined based on credit information of the borrower; a first credit line may be established based on the determined level of risk associated with the borrower, the first credit line being set as a debt of the mortgage; a second credit line may be established based on the determined level of risk associated with the borrower, the second credit line being set as a maximum to which the debt of the mortgage may be increased during the mortgage; and the mortgage may be offered to the borrower with the established first and second credit lines, such that a single first lien may serve as security for the first and second credit lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. (Freddie Mac)
    Inventors: Michael G. Bradley, J. Douglas Gordon, Walter C. Muren
  • Patent number: 7941366
    Abstract: Systems and methods consistent with the present invention provide a mortgage with a primary credit line and a sliding credit line, such that the borrower may request to borrow from the sliding credit line as part of the original mortgage. In one embodiment, the method includes determining a level of risk associated with the borrower based on credit information of the borrower; establishing a first credit line based on the determined level of risk associated with the borrower, the first credit line being set as a debt of the mortgage; establishing a second credit line based on the determined level of risk associated with the borrower, the second credit line being set as a maximum to which the debt of the mortgage may be increased during the mortgage; and offering the mortgage to the borrower with the established first and second credit lines, such that a single first lien may serve as security for the first and second credit lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. (Freddie Mac)
    Inventors: Michael G. Bradley, J. Douglas Gordon, Walter C. Muren
  • Patent number: 7941365
    Abstract: Systems and methods consistent with the present invention provide a mortgage with a primary credit line and a sliding credit line, such that the borrower may request to borrow from the sliding credit line as part of the original mortgage. In one embodiment, the method includes determining a level of risk associated with the borrower based on credit information of the borrower; establishing a first credit line based on the determined level of risk associated with the borrower, the first credit line being set as a debt of the mortgage; establishing a second credit line based on the determined level of risk associated with the borrower, the second credit line being set as a maximum to which the debt of the mortgage may be increased during the mortgage; and offering the mortgage to the borrower with the established first and second credit lines, such that a single first lien may serve as security for the first and second credit lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. (Freddie Mac)
    Inventors: Michael G. Bradley, J. Douglas Gordon, Walter C. Muren
  • Patent number: 7904381
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for increasing the return from a pool of loans for a company involved in the guarantee and securitization of such loans. In one exemplary embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises creating a plurality of sub-pools in which to place loans from the pool of loans; determining, using one or more processors, an external value assessment for one or more loans from the pool and an internal value assessment for the one or more loans; identifying a difference between the external and internal value assessments; and selecting a sub-pool from the plurality of sub-pools to place the one or more loans based upon the identified difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac)
    Inventors: Menner A. Tatang, Martin M. Loketek
  • Patent number: 7882025
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for creating and using a common, generic, data/object model to represent information grids or lookup tables, such as a mortgage asset pricing information grid. The common model allows a common software representation for logically different attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac)
    Inventors: Mark E. Seal, James Quartey, Suresh S. Kalkavery
  • Patent number: 7835919
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for providing an indication that an appraisal value for a property is likely to be faulty using a model. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving information representative of at least one of a borrower, a property, or one or more demographics; receiving the appraisal value of the property; and determining a score based on the received information, received appraisal, and the model, such that the score provides the indication of the likelihood that the appraisal value for the property is faulty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Freddie Mac
    Inventors: Michael G. Bradley, J. Douglas Gordon, Pamela W. Sims, Douglas A. McManus, Morgan C. Snyder
  • Patent number: 7797166
    Abstract: Systems and methods consistent with the present invention generate a model for providing one or more scores indicating a likelihood that a stated income is faulty. In one embodiment, the method includes, for example, receiving information representative of at least one borrower; receiving a first income value for the at least one borrower; and receiving a second value for the at least one borrower, such that the second income value verifies the first income value. Moreover, the method includes determining one or more parameters for the model based on the received information, the received first income value, and the received second income value, such that the one or more parameters enable the model to provide the one or more scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac)
    Inventors: Michael G. Bradley, J. Douglas Gordon, Pamela W. Sims
  • Patent number: 7743090
    Abstract: Systems and method are provided for testing an infrastructure. The infrastructure may include one or more computers connected by a network. Moreover, each of the computers may include an agent. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving, at a controller, a test request to perform at least one of a plurality of predetermined tests, the predetermined test including one or more parameters associated with performing the predetermined test and one or more expected results from performing the predetermined test. The method further includes determining whether the predetermined test is available at one of the computers. The method also includes sending, by the controller, the predetermined test to one of the computers based on the results of the determining step, such that the agent at the computer performs the predetermined test sent by the controller. Furthermore, the method includes receiving, at the controller, one or more results of the predetermined test performed by the agent at the computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac)
    Inventors: Gregory A. Gibson, Daniel V. Wood
  • Patent number: 7734523
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method, system and computer program product for grading asset-backed securities by assigning a relative grade, including one or more of a prepayment risk component and a complexity component, which may take into account one or more of weighted average life, volatility of weighted average life at moderate and stressed yield curve shifts, and complexity, in the absence of price information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac)
    Inventors: Jianyuan Cui, Marian J. Gora
  • Patent number: 7729961
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are described for normalizing HMDA data. In one exemplary embodiment, a computer-implemented method of normalizing HMDA data comprises receiving HMDA data including at least one of HMDA data reports and loan-level public HMDA data, the HMDA data having information that varies as a function of time; correcting errors in the HMDA data; normalizing the HMDA data across any variation in the information; summarizing the normalized HMDA data; and outputting the summarized and normalized HMDA data to an application for analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac)
    Inventors: Geni Gomez, Keith Bickel
  • Patent number: 7711574
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for providing, based on a model, an indication that an appraisal value for a property is likely to be faulty. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving information representative of at least one of a borrower, a property, or one or more demographics, such that the received information corresponds to a date. The method determines a score based on the received information and the model, such that the score provides the indication of the likelihood that the appraisal value was faulty on the date.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac)
    Inventors: Michael G. Bradley, J. Douglas Gordon, Pamela W. Sims, Douglas A. McManus, Morgan C. Snyder, Mathew J. Klena
  • Patent number: 7698209
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer-program product for determining one or more decision steps of a programming logic set executed by a computer. The method comprises steps of: receiving at least one data set; receiving conditional information; tagging one of said one or more data sets to indicate qualification under the conditional information. The tagging includes determining, for each tagging condition element, if the tagging condition element passes or fails, and combining, in accordance with a predefined logic scheme, the results of the individual tagging condition elements from the determining step to further determine whether said data set meets the conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac)
    Inventor: Tienan Zhao
  • Patent number: 7647272
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for processing mortgage payments. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a fixed payment for the mortgage, such fixed payment being based on an initial interest rate, with the initial interest rate serving as a maximum interest rate; determining a principal and interest payment amount based on a revised interest rate, the revised interest rate not exceeding the maximum interest rate; determining a difference between the fixed payment and the determined principal and interest amount, so that any difference may prepay the mortgage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2010
    Assignee: Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FREDDIE MAC)
    Inventor: Walter C. Muren
  • Patent number: 7593890
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for determining an indication that an application for a mortgage loan to secure a property may result in closing of the loan transaction. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving application information, such that the application information includes at least borrower information, property information, and a first interest rate; receiving home value information, such that the home value information represents an estimated value of the property; receiving a second interest rate; and determining the indication based on the received application information, received home value information, and received second interest rate, such that the indication represents a likelihood that the mortgage loan may result in closing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: Freddie Mac
    Inventors: Michael G. Bradley, J. Douglas Gordon, Matthew J. Klena, Pamela W. Sims
  • Patent number: 7587351
    Abstract: A system and method for allocating principal payments by creating Capped NAS/AS securities classes, Both scheduled and unscheduled principal prepayments are redirected, subject to a maximum percentage, or cap, as determined by formula. The formula is a novel payment priority rule that redistributes risks related to the borrower's prepayment option through prioritization of the cash flows among the NAS/AS Classes, allowing for the efficient creation of classes with more and less WAL stability to meet specific investor's needs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: Freddie Mac
    Inventors: Gary D. Kain, Christopher J. Kuehl
  • Patent number: 7451095
    Abstract: Systems and methods consistent with the present invention provide a score indicating that a stated income is likely to be faulty. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving information representative of the stated income and determining the score based on the received information and a model, such that the score indicates a likelihood that the stated income is faulty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: Freddie Mac
    Inventors: Michael G. Bradley, J. Douglas Gordon, Pamela W. Sims
  • Patent number: 7340431
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for analyzing a set of assets. Generally, a distribution is computed for a characteristic of assets, setting a range in a tail of the distribution and partitioning the range into at least one partition. Subsequently, a multiplier is assigned to each partition, wherein the multiplier represents how the characteristics affect the risk associated with an asset. These multipliers can be used in a risk analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Assignee: Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac)
    Inventors: Douglas Alexander John McManus, Asim Husain, Pamela Williams Sims, Robert LaVerne Parson, Limin Fu
  • Patent number: 7289965
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for generating a model for providing one or more scores indicating a likelihood that an appraisal value is faulty. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving information representative of at least one of a borrower, a property, or one or more demographics; receiving a first appraisal value of the property; receiving a second appraisal value of the property, such that the second appraisal verifies the first appraisal; and determining one or more parameters for the model based on the received information, the received first appraisal value, and the received second appraisal value, such that the one or more parameters enable the model to provide the one or more scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: Freddie Mac
    Inventors: Michael G. Bradley, J. Douglas Gordon, Pamela W. Sims, Douglas A. McManus, Morgan C. Snyder
  • Patent number: 7099843
    Abstract: The disclosed systems and methods for hedging risk of differential loss related to separate pools of loan investments use criteria established by the parties for hedging risk of differential loss rates. The system monitors indirect performance indicators for a Reference Pool and a Subject Pool of loans, compares the indicators, and calculates a payment due between the parties (if any) based on performance differences for the two pools and a payment formula. Any payment due is paid according to a pre-established payment cycle. The loan pools may be formed and adjusted based on various factors, such as to compensate for changes in one of the pools. The payment formula may also be adjusted to compensate for changes or differences in the loan pools. The system may hedge either party's credit loss related to the Subject Pool if its loans perform differently than the loans in the Reference Pool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: Freddie Mac, The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Co.
    Inventors: Henry James Cassidy, David Kevin Horne, Tyler Taile Yang, John Patrick McMurray