Patents Assigned to Intuit
  • Publication number: 20130346222
    Abstract: During a financial transaction, a customer provides an identifier to a peripheral device (which may be a barcode scanner, a wireless receiver or a keyboard) coupled to the point-of-sale terminal. This identifier corresponds to a one-time payment credential token that includes financial information of the customer. Then, a service object executing on the point-of-sale terminal, which acts as a driver for the peripheral device, performs one or more operations based on at least the identifier to obtain the financial information. After providing the financial information and transaction information associated with the financial transaction to a financial institution specified in the financial information, the point-of-sale terminal receives a confirmation from the financial institution that the financial transaction has been completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: INTUIT INC.
    Inventor: Alexander S. Ran
  • Publication number: 20130346320
    Abstract: A method to access financial data. The method includes redirecting, by a computer processor and based on an input of a user, the user to a website of a financial institution (FI), wherein the user submits a request via the website to access the financial data, obtaining, in response to the user submitting the request, a token identifying the request, identifying, by the computer processor, a financial data structure in a remote repository based on the token, wherein the FI stores a financial data record in the financial data structure in response to the request, and retrieving, without user intervention, the financial data record from the financial data structure, wherein the financial data record is used by a financial management application to prepare a financial management report for the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Hui Jin, Yogish Pai, Raju Venkata Satya Sanyasi Vusirikala
  • Patent number: 8615397
    Abstract: Embodiments of a system for identifying audio content are described. During operation, the system receives a data stream from an electronic device via a communication network. Then, the system distorts a set of target patterns which are used to identify the audio content based on characteristics of the electronic device and/or the communication network. Next, the system identifies the audio content in the data stream based on the set of distorted target patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventor: Matt E. Hart
  • Patent number: 8615706
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that improves data entry for a form with one or more fields. During operation, the system displays both a printed representation of the form as well as an enhanced representation of the form that displays an enhanced view of the form's fields. When the system detects a user action related to a field displayed in one of the representations, the system adjusts the display of the field in the other representation (or in both representations) to indicate that the two fields are related. By indicating this relationship, the system facilitates entering and/or updating data for the form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher E. Smith, Heidi J. Strazdus, Brian E. Morearty
  • Publication number: 20130339870
    Abstract: A method to adapt a software application for a geographical region. The invention includes receiving, by a computer processor and from at least one of a plurality of users of the software application, a first translation of a localizable item in a user interface (UI) menu of the software application, wherein the first translation is based on a language of the geographical region, generating, by the computer processor, a tally of the first translation from the plurality of users, presenting, to the plurality of users via a plurality of instantiations of the UI menu in response to the tally exceeding a pre-determined count, the localizable item using the first translation, receiving, from the plurality of users via the plurality of instantiations of the UI menu, feedback regarding the accuracy of the first translation, and classifying, based on the feedback, the first translation as an approved translation of the localizable item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: INTUIT INC.
    Inventors: Sunil Tandra Sishtla, Anshu Verma, Nemmara S. Chithambaram, Bharath Kadaba
  • Patent number: 8611929
    Abstract: A process for automatically adding related event information to social media location updates integrates one or more event data sources into the social media location update process and thereby provides the ability to automatically identify events associated with the identified location of a social media location update and automatically include information describing the identified event in a social media location and event update posting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy Vandehey, Mack McConnell, Brandon Gador
  • Patent number: 8613098
    Abstract: A method and system for providing a dynamic image verification system to confirm human input whereby a dynamic verification image that is pictorial in nature, and/or is animated, is displayed as part of a generated image verification test. The user is then asked to describe the pictorial image and/or the animation shown by the dynamic verification image and/or, in one example, respond to the dynamic verification image in a manner appropriate to the dynamic verification image. Any user entering a correct solution, i.e., describing the pictorial image and/or animated action of the dynamic verification image correctly, or, in one example, interacting with the dynamic verification image in an appropriate manner, is presumed to be a human being, and not a computing system or other automated device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Balasubrahmanyam Pillalamarri, Girish Mallenahally Channakeshava
  • Patent number: 8612317
    Abstract: Visually presenting spending behavior, spending patterns, and spending activity to a consumer across of their all receipt based purchase transactions. Receipt data is received at a first or host computer from respective transaction processing devices or host systems of respective merchants, or received from self-service action of the consumer, and identifies respective goods or services purchased by the consumer. A user interface is displayed to the consumer and comprises a thumbnail arrangement of discrete objects, each of which represents respective receipts generated by respective transaction or transaction processing devices. A discrete object may comprise data of one or multiple goods or services and includes category indicators that visually inform the consumer about the type of good or service. Embodiments may also involve requesting receipt data utilizing a mobile communication device, searching receipt data collected by the computer and responding to the request with requested receipt data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Susan A. Harman, Ronald J. Char, Abraham Zafar, Ojas R. Sitapara
  • Publication number: 20130332293
    Abstract: During a financial transaction, a customer provides a token that identifies the customer to a peripheral device (which is other than a credit-authorization terminal or a magnetic-stripe reader) coupled to the point-of-sale terminal. Then, a unified point-of-sale service object executing on the point-of-sale terminal, which is a driver for a virtual peripheral device, performs one or more operations based on at least the token to obtain financial information associated with the customer. After providing the financial information and transaction information associated with the financial transaction to a financial institution specified in the financial information, the point-of-sale terminal receives a confirmation from the financial institution that the financial transaction has been completed. For example, the confirmation may be received via a credit-authorization-terminal service object that is a driver for the credit-authorization terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2012
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: INTUIT INC.
    Inventor: Alexander S. Ran
  • Patent number: 8606611
    Abstract: A method for managing projects for a small business using a graphical user interface (GUI). The method includes receiving, at a current time, a request to schedule a new project at a location and a future time selected by a user, identifying a plurality of available workers of the small business available to work on the new project at the future time, displaying, within the GUI, a new project avatar of the new project at the location on a map and a plurality of available worker avatars corresponding to the plurality of available workers, and assigning a first available worker of the plurality of available workers to the new project.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Boris Fedorov, Jason Reid Silver, Kathleen June Buettner, David McLelland, Claude Keswani
  • Patent number: 8605129
    Abstract: A tamper resistant check includes a first region on a first surface of the tamper resistant check and a second region on the first surface of the tamper resistant check. The second region on the first surface of the tamper resistant check corresponds to at least one critical field associated with the tamper resistant check including, but not limited to, one or more of the payee field, the amount field, and/or the signature field. The second region on the first surface of the tamper resistant check is designed so that toner-based characters/symbols applied by a laser printer to the second region cannot be removed from the second region without leaving visible evidence of the tampering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Karen Barson, Kris R. Chopra, Margaret Tretola
  • Patent number: 8606708
    Abstract: Systems, methods and articles of manufacture for a computerize method of providing financial management to a user by integrating financial data from a plurality of sources such as online financial services. The system analyzes the financial data from a plurality of sources together to determine financial transactions beneficial to the user, and executes the financial transactions. The system may also analyze a user's transactional history among multiple accounts to identify and predict recommended financial transactions to the user. This provides an integrated solution for linking and coordinating multiple online banking services which previously had no operational link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew J. Homier, Craig A. Heath, Thomas E. Hurlbutt, Jose M. Resendiz
  • Patent number: 8605034
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system for skipping a plurality of pages displayed on a mobile device. The system includes a computer processor, an accelerometer module, a calculating module, and a page-skipping engine, which are all operatively connected. The accelerometer module executes on the computer processor and is configured to detect, using an accelerometer, a movement of the mobile device, wherein the movement comprises a magnitude; determine that the mobile device is oriented for skipping the plurality of pages; and determine that the movement triggers skipping the plurality of pages. The calculating module executes on the computer processor and is configured to calculate, based on the magnitude of the movement and a plurality of settings, the plurality of pages to skip. The page-skipping engine executes on the computer processor and is configured to display a target page on the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventor: Lionel Roy
  • Patent number: 8600835
    Abstract: Systems, computer-implemented methods and computer program products for generating electronic shopping lists for recurring item purchase that identify items and their respective prices. Item-level electronic transaction data is analyzed to determine purchase intervals of items and estimate when the consumer will purchase the items again. A source of price data is accessed to determine prices of respective items, and an electronic shopping list is generated based on prior consumer purchase and lists items that when it is determined that consumer will need to purchase those items again and their respective prices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventor: Gary D. Lueck
  • Patent number: 8595148
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a method and system to verify an employment history of an applicant. The method involves obtaining data from a plurality of data sources comprising a business application, aggregating data to obtain aggregated data, where aggregated data includes employment and payroll data from the plurality of data sources, receiving a request for an employment history verification report based on a job application, where the request includes applicant identification information, searching aggregated data for data associated with applicant identification information, and providing the employment history verification report corresponding to applicant identification information, where the employment history verification report is based on the request and aggregated data. The employment history verification report may be based on employment and payroll data associated with applicant identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua Aaron Borgen, Todd Matthew Fitch
  • Patent number: 8589230
    Abstract: A method for placing targeted advertisement (TAD), including obtaining, from a location aware service provider, current locations of mobile devices used by consumers, wherein the current locations are determined within a pre-determined duration of current time, identifying a crowd comprising the consumers by comparing the current locations and a location of an advertisement presentation device to determine that the consumers are currently within a pre-determined range of the advertisement presentation device, calculating, based on profiles of the consumers, a relevancy score of a TAD message with respect to the crowd using a pre-determined formula, and sending, within a pre-determined time of identifying the crowd and in response to identifying the relevancy score meeting a pre-determined criterion, the TAD message to the advertisement presentation device for presenting to the plurality of consumers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventor: Ryan M. Bickerstaff
  • Patent number: 8589262
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to a computer system that facilitates identifying additional tax information. During operation, the computer system receives tax information. Next, the computer system determines relevance of the additional tax information to the tax information using a metric indicative of a statistical relationship between the tax information and the additional tax information in a tax-information data structure. This metric is based on co-existence of the tax information and the additional tax information at different hierarchical levels in income-tax documents. Moreover, the tax-information data structure includes tax information and associated context information from income-tax documents. Next, the computer system identifies the additional tax information based on the relevance and a threshold, and the computer system provides the additional tax information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventor: Gang Wang
  • Patent number: 8589557
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates the deployment and execution of a software offering. During operation, the system obtains a service definition of the software offering. Next, the system creates a work-breakdown structure based on a set of policies from the service definition. Finally, the system uses the work-breakdown structure to automatically provision a set of resources for use by the software offering without requiring manual configuration of the resources by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Jerome Labat, Ramachandran Varadharajan, Wilson W. Lau, Thomas C. Bishop
  • Patent number: 8584937
    Abstract: Systems and methods for assessing transaction risk. A consumer tenders a transaction card to a merchant to purchase a good or service. A payment device of the merchant, such as a merchant's payment terminal or mobile communication device, is used to process the payment utilizing a risk assessment system. Card data received by the payment device is sent to the risk assessment system, which processes card data and generates an indicator representing the risk associated with accepting payment using the card. The indicator is sent to the payment device to provide the merchant input regarding risk associated with using the card (e.g., likelihood of fraud or chargeback) in a seamless manner. If the risk level is too high, the merchant may reject the card. The risk indicator may be based on different types of data from different sources, e.g., data from a first source related to the credit history of the consumer and data from a second source related to the identity of the consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Eric F. Kowalchyk, See Yew Mo, Jimmy M. Lu, Satish Buddhavarapu, Michael J. Power, Janos Z. Mako
  • Patent number: 8583512
    Abstract: Systems, computer-implemented methods and computer program products for generating customized shopping lists for recurring purchases of the same item based upon item-level electronic transaction data. Item-level electronic transaction data is analyzed to determine purchase intervals of items and estimate when the consumer will purchase the items again. Segregated, customized shopping lists are generated such that shopping lists have identified items when it is estimated that the consumer will need to purchase the items again. Multiple shopping lists may be segregated by merchant such that consumers have two more different lists of items for different merchants for a given estimated date. For example, a consumer may be provided with a first shopping list for a grocery store such as SAFEWAY, a second shopping list for a warehouse club store such as COSTCO, and a third shopping list for a big box store or superstore such as TARGET.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventor: Anirma R. Gupta