Patents Assigned to NCR
  • Channel integration
    Patent number: 10970748
    Abstract: A unique session is obtained and an anonymous session is generated that maps to the session. The anonymous session is passed to a selected advertisement service, and the selected advertisement service provides, in response thereto, an interface, which is proxied together with an existing interface of a device (associated with the unique session) during the unique session for a consumer to interact with the proxied interface on the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventor: Niraj Gopal
  • Linking a physical item to a virtual item
    Patent number: 10972457
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for mapping a virtual shopper to a physical shopper. The systems and methods may include receiving, at a backend system, unidentified customer data including information about an unidentified customer. Customer identity data including identifying information about the customer may be received from the customer. An authentication token may be generated that links the unidentified customer data to the customer identity data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Brent Vance Zucker, Robert Alexander Borowicz, Adam Justin Lieberman, Pavel {hacek over (S)}avara
  • Internet-of-things (IoT) enabled lock with management platform processing
    Patent number: 10964141
    Abstract: An Internet-of-Things (IoT)-enabled lock is provided to control access to a secure physical asset. Disparate authorized systems make requests for an access and receive authorization to access the asset. An authorized user with an authorized mobile device is dispatched to the asset pursuant to a request. Proximity-based mobile device authentication is performed when the mobile device is in a configured proximity of the asset and the mobile device establishes a wireless connection to the lock. A second factor authentication is performed on the user that operated the mobile device. A One-Time Code (OTC) is generated and provided to either the lock or the mobile device for access to the asset. Access events and service information for the asset are stored in a shared data repository. Each system has access through to the shared data repository to all auditing information associated with the asset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew Robert Burris, Jodessiah Sumpter
  • Sale authorization system
    Patent number: 10963879
    Abstract: Systems and methods for a sale authorization include detecting vehicle information. A secondary authorization parameter is received and the sale is authorized in response to the secondary authorization parameter being associated with the vehicle information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventor: Jason Thomas Pastor
  • Inter-network remote assist
    Patent number: 10963850
    Abstract: A not-on-us transaction at a Self-Service Terminal (SST) is initiated by a customer. Transaction details indicate that the customer is associated with a remote backend system that is accessible over a different network from that which is associated with the SST. The transaction details are forwarded from the SST to the remote backend system. Remote commands are issued from the remote backend system and translated into native commands of the SST where they are executed on the SST to process the not-on-us transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: John Aldridge, Marreddy Thumma
  • Virtual reality maintenance and repair
    Patent number: 10957102
    Abstract: A Virtual Reality (VR) system and method are provided that facilitates diagnosing and solving problems associated with a terminal. A VR session is established and a VA room rendered for participants. Files describing and program instructions for interactively manipulating the terminal are loaded into the VR room. At least one component piece of the SST is manipulated based on direction provided by a VR input device operated by a participant during the VR session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Yehoshua Zvi Licht, Grant Charles Paton, Joseph Arnold White, Mariano J. Maluf
  • Transaction performance
    Patent number: 10956892
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for performing a transaction at a hand held device. The method comprises the steps of accessing a virtualized operating system and Automated Teller Machine (ATM) application at a hand held device and performing a customer transaction at the hand held device using the virtualized operating system and ATM application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Heather McCracken, Joseph Gallagher, Norman G. Taylor
  • Note validator transport path centralizer
    Patent number: 10947074
    Abstract: Various embodiments herein each include at least one of systems, assemblies, devices, components, methods, software and firmware for a note validator transport path centralizer, such as may be present in a Self-Service Terminal, e.g., an Automated Teller Machine. One example method embodiment includes receiving a note by a receiving and transport module of a note validator and sensing a lateral positioning of the note on a transport path of the note validator. This method further includes engaging at least one centralizing mechanism to move the note to a medial position on the transport path of the note validator and disengaging the at least one centralizer mechanism upon sensing the note reaching the medial position on the transport path of the note validator. The method may then output the note from the receiving and transport module of the note validator to a note validation module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Templeman, Peer-Ake Eskelius
  • Devices and methods for payment handling
    Patent number: 10943222
    Abstract: A method can include receiving a first payment from a first payment terminal in a first format, converting the first payment to a unified format, receiving a second payment from a second payment terminal in a second format different from the first format, and converting the second payment to the unified format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Mervin Amos, Monish Meiappan
  • Print quality monitoring and correction
    Patent number: 10942687
    Abstract: Various embodiments herein each include at least one of systems, software, and methods for detecting such problems and to take corrective action. One embodiment, in the form of a method, includes instructing a printer to print a document including a testing output and receiving an image of the document including the testing output from an imaging device. This method further includes analyzing the testing output included in the received image in view of an expected testing output to identify a printing issue and then storing a result of the analysis. The method may also include performing at least one remedial action to correct an identified printing issue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: John Crooks, Michael Lee Barlow, Andrew Klenzak, Brian Patrick Rogers, Sergio Silva
  • Constructing shopper carts using video surveillance
    Patent number: 10943128
    Abstract: A system can visually track which items in a store are selected for purchase by a shopper. The system can form a virtual shopping cart by analyzing multiple images, over time, to determine which purchasable items are located with the shopper, such as in a physical shopping cart, in a basket, or held by the shopper. By analyzing multiple images, over time, the system can account for items misidentified in one or more images, or fully or partially obscured in one or more images as the shopper traverses the store. Alternatively, the system can form a virtual shopping cart by analyzing instances in which a purchasable item is removed from a shelf or placed on a shelf. Items removed from, but not returned to, a shelf can be considered to be selected for purchase. The system can include a frictionless checkout that charges the shopper for the selected items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Brent Vance Zucker, Stefan Bjelcevic, Adam Justin Lieberman
  • Secure adapter device
    Patent number: 10938154
    Abstract: A powered and secure device is provided. The device includes a terminal, an adapter, a self-latching mechanism and a secure housing. The terminal is adapted to be inserted into a host terminal device port. The self-latching mechanism adapted to secure or lock the device within the device port when the device is inserted into the device port. The secure housing adapted to be locked, unlocked, assembled, and disassembled. Access to the adapter is available when the secure housing is disassembled. The adapter includes a terminal slot for receiving and removing second devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Andrew Kleppinger, Ulrich Kaiser, Philipp Schmidt
  • Individual biometric-based tracking
    Patent number: 10936854
    Abstract: Real-time individual tracking at a site is provided by capturing an image at a specific location for the individual, extracting a limited number of biometric features from the image, and providing a searching mechanism for matching the scored biometric features to the individual at the specific location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventor: Yehoshua Zvi Licht
  • Methods of transforming data packets and systems using executable data packets
    Patent number: 10938719
    Abstract: Methods of transforming a data packet are described. More particularly methods of transforming a data packet, that include receiving at a router a communication data packet from a server, extracting embedded executable instructions from the communication data packet, and transforming the communication data packet at the router by executing, with a processor of the router, the embedded executable instructions are described. Additionally, router in communication with a Self-Service Terminal (SST) or network of SSTs that utilize data packets have executable instructions are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventor: Aditya Penumethsa
  • Decentralized video tracking
    Patent number: 10929675
    Abstract: Decentralized cameras perform video tracking on captured video. The cameras produce metadata representing tracking of objects from the captured video. The metadata is passed between the cameras as the object moves within the captured video. Final metadata from at least one of the cameras is sent to a server, the server processes the final metadata to produce a summary of the object tracking and process one or more automated actions based on the summary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher John Costello, Sik Piu Kwan
  • Terminal authenticated access
    Patent number: 10931663
    Abstract: Two-factor authentication is processed on a transaction terminal before access is provided to a secure resource of the transaction terminal. A first factor authentication is performed to authenticate an identifier and a credential of a user. A unique challenge is sent, in response to a successful first factor authentication, to a secure device interfaced to the transaction terminal. A one-time unique signed response is received from the secure device in response to the unique challenge and a user action that depresses a button on the secure device. The one-time unique signed response is compared against what is expected from the secure device. When the comparison is successful, a user identity for the user is set, a security role is set for the user identity, and the user is granted access to the secure resource with the set security role.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Anthony Edward Roper, Colin George Herkes
  • Basic input/output system (BIOS) and unified extensible firmware interface (UEFI) one-time boot
    Patent number: 10929827
    Abstract: A Basic Input/Output System (BIOS)/Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) on a Self-Service Terminal (SST) loads ATM resources into volatile memory of the SST during a boot of the SST in a predefined order. Each time, during an SST boot, where the order is attempting to be changed; a credential is required to change the predefined order and the credential has to be authenticated before the predefined order is changed during the SST boot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventor: Brian Steven Wotherspoon
  • Vacuum fixture
    Patent number: 10926483
    Abstract: Disclosed is a vacuum fixture. The vacuum fixture may include a base plate assembly, a middle frame assembly, and a top plate assembly. The base plate assembly may have a first hinged edge. The middle frame assembly may be connected to the base plate proximate the first hinged edge and may define a void. The top plate assembly may have a second hinged edge connected to the first hinged edge, such that when the top plate assembly is in a closed position the middle frame assembly is located in between and contacts a first surface of the base plate assembly and a first surface of the top plate assembly, thereby forming a cavity in between the base plate assembly and the top plate assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Gerhard Sendlhofer, Kristoffer Malone Bejemino
  • Image processing for identifying individuals
    Patent number: 10929697
    Abstract: Cameras capture time-stamped images of predefined areas. At least one image includes a representation of a portion of an individual with other portions of the individual occluded within the image. Pixel attributes for the portion of the individual are identified and provided as a box or set of coordinates for tracking the individual within the image and in subsequent images taken.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Brent Vance Zucker, Adam Justin Lieberman
  • Self-service terminal (SST) safe and methods of operating a lock for the SST safe
    Patent number: 10930101
    Abstract: A Self-Service Terminal (SST) safe that includes a lock drive adapted and configured to i) operate inside the SST safe, ii) receive a wireless code sent from outside the SST safe, and iii) determine whether to lock or unlock the SST safe from inside the SST safe in response to the wireless code, and wherein the wireless code is cryptographically secured and authenticated prior to any unlock or lock operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander William Whytock, Brian Wotherspoon, Niraj Gopal