Patents Assigned to PayPal, Inc.
  • Patent number: 12711306
    Abstract: Some embodiments may provide a method comprising receiving, from a remote machine, entity-identifying data and form identifying data, the form identifying data to identify a sequence of one or more electronic forms, the sequence including a target electronic form having a form element, determining an entity identifier, based on the entity-identifying data, accessing, from a data store, an entity attribute value based on the entity identifier, and transmitting, to the remote machine, form-filling instructions operable to cause a machine to automatically associate an entity attribute value with the form element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2026
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Eliot W. Jacobsen, Hugo Olliphant
  • Patent number: 12710927
    Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for providing a computer platform that manages the impacts of government regulations on existing software processes of an online service provider. A regulation document is obtained from a government agency. The regulation document is processed, and legal obligations relevant to an online service provider are extracted from the regulation document. An ensemble machine learning model is used to recommend, for each of the legal obligations, software controls that can be implemented within one or more software processes of the online service provider to mitigate a risk of the legal obligations. The ensemble machine learning model may include an attribute-based model and a text-based model. An explainable visual interface is provided to present the recommended software controls and context that indicates to a user how the software controls are determined for the legal obligations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2026
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Sneha Venkatachalam, Ravi Retineni, Hang Yu, Zhaoyang Wang, Yi Ren, Zihao Zhao, Huiting Li, Gaoyuan Wang, Li Cao
  • Patent number: 12711738
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for generating an altered version of an original version of media using a generative model. A system detects, at a computing device, a trigger event indicating a user of the computing device has requested to view media at a user interface of the computing device. In response to detecting the trigger event, the system: retrieves, an original version of the media from a backend server and identifies, using an object detection model, a bounding region of content within the original version, generates, using a generative model, an altered version of the media based on the bounding region, and transmits to the computing device, the altered version for display at the computing device in place of the original version, where the generative model generates the altered version of the media based on historical transaction information and user information of the user of the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2026
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Jiyi Zhang, Zhe Chen, Jiazheng Zhang, Solomon kok how Teo, Yuzhen Zhuo, Quan Jin Ferdinand Tang
  • Patent number: 12711499
    Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for providing an artificial intelligence (AI)-based conversation system for facilitating a conversation with users and processing transactions for the users. The AI-based conversation system includes an AI model coupled with different backend modules. Based on an utterance submitted by a user during a chat session, the AI model is configured to generate instructions for a backend module to perform a transaction for the user based on a prompt template. The AI model also communicates the instructions to the backend module using a protocol specified in the prompt template. Upon receiving an output from the backend module, the AI model is configured to generate content for the chat session based on the output, and provide the content to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2026
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Soujanya Lanka, Guangsen Wang, Reyha Verma
  • Patent number: 12711378
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for generating multiple different types of new features from a network graph and training a machine learning model using the newly generated features. A server system generates, from electronic communications, a network graph that includes nodes and edges. The server captures snapshots of the network graph that include nodes and edges existing at different time intervals. The system generates, for nodes included in respective snapshots, different types of features that include a neighbor convolution feature for a given node in a given snapshot by compressing node behavior features for neighbor nodes of the given node that are one hop away from the given node within the given snapshot of the network graph. The system trains, using the plurality of different types of features, a machine learning model usable to predict whether unlabeled nodes in the network graph are anomalous.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2026
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Yanfei Dong, Zhe Chen
  • Patent number: 12711512
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to speculatively processing transactions. A transaction processing system may receive an indication of a trigger event associated with an electronic transaction not yet initiated by a client computing device. In some embodiments, in response to the indication of the trigger event and prior to receiving an indication of the electronic transaction being initiated, the computer system begins speculative processing of the electronic transaction. In some embodiments, the speculative processing includes identifying the client computing device based on device authentication information received from the client device, determining a user account based on the identifier client computing device, retrieving account information for the determined account, and storing the retrieved account information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2025
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2026
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventor: Sanjeev Sharma
  • Patent number: 12706905
    Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for performing comprehensive and accurate matching of user accounts with one or more known entities based on image-linking graphs. Images related to each known entity are retrieved from one or more online sources. Faces are extracted from the images. Based on attributes of the faces in the images, an image-linking graph is generated for the entity. When a user account is determined to be a potential match for the entity based on text-based attributes, an image associated with the account may be obtained. If the image matches with any one of the faces in the image-linking graph, an action is performed to the user account based on a position of the matched face in the image-linking graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Ramnarayan Vijapur Gopinath Rao, Rajkumar Baskaran, Rishabh Goel
  • Patent number: 12705478
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for facilitating implicit curriculum learning are provided. These allow for improved machine learning systems that can automatically execute curriculum learning without drawbacks such as pre-sorting data into different epochs which may have varying degrees of difficulty (e.g. easiest first, then harder epochs). Applicant's techniques can be executed more efficiently by automatically iterating over a data set, which need not be manually separated into different epochs. Thus, a system can access a neural network and a set of labeled data candidates. In various aspects, the system can perform a plurality of training epochs on the neural network based on the set of labeled data candidates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventor: Roi Spoliansky
  • Patent number: 12705605
    Abstract: Embodiments provide systems, methods, processes, computer program code and means for using mobile devices to conduct transactions with value dispensing devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin Laracey
  • Patent number: 12705631
    Abstract: A fraud detection model is used by a computer system to evaluate whether to grant a request to access a secure electronic resource. Before granting the request, the computer system evaluates the request using a multi-partite graph model generated using a plurality of previous requests. The multi-partite graph model includes at least a first set of nodes for sender accounts, a second set of nodes for recipient accounts, and a third set of nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuan Deng, Yanfei Dong
  • Patent number: 12700000
    Abstract: Methods and systems for content distribution and management are presented. A transaction flow for conducting different stages of a transaction is determined in response to a request for the transaction from an application executable at a user device. The transaction flow includes a sequence of content pages to be displayed within a graphical user interface (GUI) of the application over the different stages of the transaction. The content associated with a tagged UI element of at least one content page is identified. The content is validated for the tagged UI element of the at least one content page, based on a software and hardware configuration of the user device. The validated content is provided via a network to the application at the user device to be displayable with the tagged UI element on the at least one content page of the transaction flow during a corresponding stage of the transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2026
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Atul Kumar Agrawal, Anu Kumari, Anurag Singh, Chun Kiat Ho, RaviKumar PhoolChand Vishwakarma, Jie How Ko, Nilotpal Paul, Jyothish Kozhipurath, Vipul Jain, Lin Song, Mihir Sirohi, Rey Neo
  • Patent number: 12700034
    Abstract: A method for offering at least one credit product by at least one credit issuer to a consumer at a point-of-sale between a merchant and the consumer. The method includes the steps of: providing a credit issuer data set including a plurality of data fields to a central database; initiating a transaction between the consumer and the merchant at the point-of-sale; offering, to the consumer at the point-of-sale, the at least one credit product; and presenting, to the consumer at the point-of-sale, at least one data field in the credit issuer data set. The at least one data field presented to the consumer is populated with data directed to the credit product, the credit issuer, or any combination thereof. An apparatus and system are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2026
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas H. Keithley
  • Patent number: 12693959
    Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for facilitating computer software feature experimentation by using one or more graph analyses to partition users into different experimentation groups. A graph is generated to represent users of a service provider and relationships among the users. When a request to perform a software feature experiment on the users of the service provider, the graph is analyzed to determine an estimated spillover effect. The graph is then coarsened across multiple levels using a label propagation technique based on one or more coarsening parameters. After the graph has been coarsened, the graph is partitioned into multiple partitions based on one or more partitioning parameters. The coarsening parameters and/or the partitioning parameters may be determined based on the estimated spillover effect. A subset of users is selected for performing the software feature experiment based on the partitioning of the coarsened graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2026
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Nitin S. Sharma, Sanae Amani Geshnigani, Pengshan Zhang, Haoyang Jia, Junshi Guo
  • Patent number: 12694013
    Abstract: System and methods for determining high-impact, non-informative features in datasets can include obtaining a first dataset including a first set of features and first set of tags, determining a second dataset including a second set of features and the first set of tags, the second set of features transformed from the first set of features, and each of the second set of features including a binary value, predicting, by a model, a third dataset including a third set of features and second set of tags based on the second dataset, comparing the third dataset to the second dataset to determine a correlation therebetween, based on the comparison, filtering at least one feature having missing feature values from the first dataset, and determining a training dataset with the remaining features in the first dataset, wherein the model being trained using the training dataset improves the outcome prediction accuracy of the model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2026
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Simcha Avichai Levy, Alon Dourban
  • Patent number: 12694404
    Abstract: A plurality of fraud features is determined for a plurality of merchants. A weight matrix is trained for the fraud features. The fraud features are transformed via the weight matrix. An unsupervised machine learning is applied to the transformed fraud features. Based on the unsupervised machine learning, a plurality of tags is generated that correspond to different types of transaction fraud. The merchants are clustered into different merchant groups based on the tags. For each of the merchant groups, a respective decision tree model is trained. Transactions associated with each of the merchant groups are processed using the decision tree model trained for said merchant group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2026
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Wei Zhuge, Yi Han, Chao Chen, Xuexiao Lai
  • Patent number: 12695772
    Abstract: There are provided systems and methods of bot detection through explainable deep learning and rule violation codebooks from generative AI. A service provider, such as an electronic transaction processor for digital transactions, may provide computing services to users for processing various requests and interactions with those users. However, malicious users may utilize bots, such as automated scripts and software applications, that attempt to conduct fraud, compromise systems and data, and the like. To provide better bot and bot activity detection, the service provider may implement an explainable deep learning system that may generate rule violations of rules indicating bot activity or presence in computing logs and interactions using a generative AI. The violations may have a corresponding explanation in codebooks to automate bot detection. When bot activity is detected, the explanation may provide a reason for the bot activity detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2026
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Panpan Qi, Zhe Chen, Quan Jin Ferdinand Tang, Fei Pei, Omkumar Mahalingam, Mandar Ganaba Gaonkar, Ting Lin, Gaurav Vishwanath Rane
  • Patent number: 12694433
    Abstract: A system and method for facilitating electronic commerce over a network, according to one or more embodiments, includes communicating with a user via a user device and an issuer of payment media via an issuer device over the network, the payment media being issued to the user by the issuer, receiving user instruction over the network to link the payment media to a user account related to the user, prompting the user over the network to input a secure password known only by the issuer and the user, receiving the secure password from the user over the network, verifying that the payment media is owned by the user over the network via a secure protocol, returning a response to the user related to verification of the payment media, and storing payment media verification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2026
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Nitesh Singhal, Parijat Sinha, Nitin Agarwal, Muthukumar Murugesan
  • Patent number: D1137264
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2026
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Kei Sasaki, Chunyi Yeh, Junta Mitsugi
  • Patent number: D1139364
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2026
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Kei Sasaki, Chunyi Yeh, Junta Mitsugi
  • Patent number: D1139611
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2026
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Mario Fernando Sanchez De la Rosa, Ida Ristner