Patents Assigned to Services
  • Patent number: 11533178
    Abstract: Methods and systems for electronic document authentication are disclosed. In one aspect, a method of generating an electronic postmark includes receiving, via a server, a request message from an electronic network, the request message comprising request data including payload data and meta data, generating a timestamp in response to receiving the message, hashing the payload data to generate a payload hash, digitally signing the metadata, the payload hash, and the timestamp to generate a digital signature, generating a response message, the response message generated to comprise the metadata, the payload hash, the timestamp, and the digital signature; and transmitting the response message onto the electronic network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: United States Postal Service
    Inventors: Clayton C. Bonnell, Kelley A. Sullivan
  • Patent number: 11528937
    Abstract: A nicotine e-vaping device may include a nicotine pod assembly and a device body defining a through hole configured to receive the nicotine pod assembly. The nicotine pod assembly is configured to hold a nicotine pre-vapor formulation. The through hole of the device body includes at least sidewall that is configured to deflect during an insertion of the nicotine pod assembly. One or more sidewalls of the through hole may include at least one protrusion configured to engage with corresponding recesses of the nicotine pod assembly so as to retain the nicotine pod assembly within the through hole of the device body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Yannick Hourmand, Christopher Newcomb, Raymond W. Lau, Eric Hawes
  • Patent number: 11532041
    Abstract: A method may include receiving financial information regarding a user; categorizing transaction information of the user based on the financial information; causing display of the categorized transaction information; receiving information regarding at least one financial preference and transaction preference of the user; determining using a trained machine learning model activities available to the user; calculating, for each of the one or more activities available to the user, an estimated influence on the at least one financial preference, causing display of the estimated influence on the at least one financial preference based on a user selected one of the one or more activities available to the user; filtering the one or more activities available to the user with a positive estimated influence to the at least one financial preference; and causing display of a recommendation of action relating to the one of the one or more activities available to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Austin Walters, Vincent Pham, Jeremy Goodsitt
  • Patent number: 11532053
    Abstract: A system and method for automatically detecting if a vehicle safety system is being used by a driver is disclosed. The system and method use data gathered from one or more sensors in the vehicle. The data is analyzed to determine if the safety system is being used or disabled. The system can send reminders to a driver to use the safety system. The system and method can also automatically update a policy holder's insurance policy to reflect whether or not a safety system is being used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Kelly Q. Baker, Sumita T. Jonak, Will Kerns Maney
  • Patent number: 11529979
    Abstract: Systems and methods for adjusting operation of a train are disclosed. A method may include: receiving one or more infrared images of a brake line of the train; detecting one or more leaks of the brake line based on the one or more infrared images; and adjusting a brake command based on the detected one or more leaks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Progress Rail Services Corporation
    Inventors: John W. Brand, Bradley Howard, Marc Miller, Gabriel G. Abreo
  • Patent number: 11532198
    Abstract: A re-locatable safety deposit box facility that allows for 24/7 access by authorized personnel to their safety deposit boxes without the need for any attendants at the facility. The facility is self-contained and re-locatable, such that it can be moved from one location to another location. In some embodiments, the facility may be, for example, a standard size shipping container. It has interior dimensions that are sufficient to house an array of safety deposit boxes. The container may also be equipped with devices that may be used to lift the entire container up so that it may be moved to another location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Ruthie D. Lyle, Chi-Hsuan Lai, Ravi Durairaj, Jo Anne Yau, Sean Carl Mitchem, Stacy Callaway Huggar, David Patrick Dixon
  • Patent number: 11531991
    Abstract: A user authorization device (or UAD) physically connected to a user's router to aid in the authentication of the user. A bank server polls the user's router to verify that the UAD is connected to the router before granting the user the capability to perform transactions on the user's account that would be otherwise restricted. The bank server implements a set of policies designed by the user that require the UAD to be present for some transactions with the account to be performed. The presence of this device thus adds an extra layer of security to such financial transactions beyond the use of a username and password.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Ryan Thomas Russell, Gregory Brian Meyer, Steven Michael Bernstein, David Ira Waters, Jr., Patrick Michael Luberus
  • Patent number: 11528939
    Abstract: A non-nicotine pod assembly for a non-nicotine e-vaping device may include a pod body and a connector module. The pod body has an upstream end and a downstream end and is configured to hold a non-nicotine pre-vapor formulation. The upstream end of the pod body defines a cavity. The connector module is configured to be seated within the cavity of the pod body. The connector module may include an external face and a side face. The external face of the connector module includes at least one electrical contact and defines a pod inlet. The side face of the connector module defines at least one module inlet. The side face of the connector module faces a sidewall of the cavity in the pod body when the connector module is seated within the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Dean Twite, Yannick Hourmand, Charles Dendy, Bipin Patil, Rangaraj S. Sundar, Christopher Newcomb, Niall Gallagher, Raymond W. Lau, Eric Hawes
  • Patent number: 11530929
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to navigational systems, devices, and methods for preparing route guidance information that incorporates user needs—and ensures fulfilment of those needs under a variety of conditions. In particular, this disclosure relates to preparing route guidance information that ensures a user is directed along a route that includes stops where various needs such as e.g. medical, food, or water can be met while also minimizing traffic. Such a system may be useful, for example, when evacuating from a metro region in the face of an oncoming natural disaster such as a hurricane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventor: Arthur Quentin Smith
  • Patent number: 11531703
    Abstract: Aspects described herein may relate to methods, systems, and apparatuses that determine one or more categories associated with a dataset, or a portion thereof. The determination may be performed based on one or more tags associated with the dataset and/or a description associated with the dataset. Further, the determination may be performed by searching an ontology based on the one or more tags and/or the description. The determination may be performed by using a machine-learning model based on the one or more tags and/or the description. Once the one or more categories associated with the dataset are determined, the one or more categories may be used as a basis for modifying the dataset and/or validating the dataset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Kai-Wen Chen, Brian Donohue, Xuemei Pan, Nirmal Kumar Raajan, Bethany Sehon, Naresh Singh, Xiaofei Wang, Albert T. Zellers, Weidan Zhou
  • Patent number: 11532050
    Abstract: Unmanned vehicles may be used to survey a property in response to or in anticipation of damage to the property. For example, an unmanned vehicle may use one or more sensors to determine damage to the property. Unmanned vehicles can be terrestrial, aerial, nautical, or multi-mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Anthony Scott Farnsworth, Justin Dax Haslam, Kathleen L. Swain, Teddy Joseph Edmond Voutour, Jess W. Gingrich, Michael J. Allen, Anthony G. Castiglione, Jordan A. Newmark
  • Patent number: 11530596
    Abstract: Fluid flow control devices and downhole floats are presented. A fluid flow control device includes a port and a rotatable component that rotates about an axis in response to fluid flow from the port. The fluid flow control device also includes an outlet port that provides a fluid passageway out of the rotatable component. The fluid flow control device further includes a float positioned within the rotatable component, where the float is shiftable from an open position to a closed position, and where the float restricts fluid flow through the outlet port while the float is in the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Wesley McChesney, Stephen Michael Greci, Richard Decena Ornelaz
  • Patent number: 11531715
    Abstract: In certain embodiments, single-page application server-side rendering may be facilitated. In some embodiments, a request related to a single-page web application may be obtained. A determination of whether the request is a crawler request may be effectuated. In response to determining that the request is a crawler request, a server-side renderer may generate a static page in connection with the request from the crawler. In some embodiments, web assets may be obtained from one or more databases via the server-side renderer, and the server-side renderer may generate the static page based on the web assets. The static page may then be provided as a response to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventor: Liju Mathews
  • Patent number: 11530750
    Abstract: A valve assembly comprising a valve guide and one or more weights coupled to and/or integral with the valve guide. The valve assembly may further comprising a valve body and a valve stem connecting the valve body to the valve guide. The valve assembly may be disposed in a fluid end of a positive displacement pump that is operated to flow a wellbore servicing fluid into a wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Aric Martin Gillispie, James Alan Olis, David Mark Stribling
  • Patent number: 11532051
    Abstract: Techniques utilize augmented reality to identify anomalies in properties or structures based thereon. Aspects can collect, using augmented reality video glasses, imagery of a property and display, to a wearer of the augmented reality video glasses using the augmented reality video glasses, data describing the property. Aspects can further compare the imagery of the property to the data describing the property to determine at least one anomaly associated with the property and report the anomaly to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Florian Braun, Andre Buentello, George MacNair, Sharon Haverlah, John Chandler Hopkins, III
  • Patent number: 11530056
    Abstract: Systems and methods for manufacturing and inserting a predetermined number of material-filled pouches into containers are disclosed. A system includes a pouch providing system comprising a plurality of lanes, wherein each one of the plurality of lanes includes a pouch making machine and a hold-back structure. The system also includes a conveyor system structured and arranged to move a plurality of containers into alignment with the plurality of lanes. The system further includes a controller structured and arranged to control the hold-back structure in each one of the plurality of lanes such that the pre-determined pouches are inserted into the plurality of containers when the plurality of containers are aligned with the plurality of lanes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: James D. Evans, Herbert Cary Longest, Tamika S. Murrell, Robert V. Powell, Jr., Jeremy Straight, Jarrod W. Chalkley
  • Publication number: 20220398422
    Abstract: Logic may detect a malfunctioning payment interface on a customer's payment instrument. Logic may receive transaction data about at least one transaction performed via a payment instrument associated with a customer. The transaction data may indicate a payment interface of the payment instrument through which the customer conducted the at least one transaction and the payment instrument may comprise one or more payment interfaces. Logic may determine, by a model, based on the transaction data, a probability of a malfunction by at least one interface of the one or more payment interfaces. The model may be trained based on a pattern of transactions associated with malfunctioning payment instruments. Logic may compare the probability of the transaction against a threshold. And logic may determine whether to contact a customer associated with the payment instrument, based comparison of the probability of the transaction against the threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Mallory MURPHY, Mark YAMASHITA
  • Publication number: 20220398566
    Abstract: Systems, methods, articles of manufacture, and computer-readable media for tapping a contactless card to a computing device to provision a virtual number. At least one parameter for authorizing a virtual account number for a subaccount associated with a primary account may be received. An application executing on a processor circuit may receive authentication credentials for the primary account. A card reader may receive encrypted data from a communications interface of a contactless card. The application may transmit the encrypted data to an authentication server. The application may receive verification of the encrypted data from the authentication server. The application may provide the at least one parameter for authorizing the virtual account number and receive a virtual account number for the subaccount generated by a virtual card number server, the virtual account number restricted to a spending limit based on the amount parameter associated with the virtual account number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey RULE, Colin HART, Kaitlin NEWMAN
  • Publication number: 20220399691
    Abstract: A system for mounting an electrical terminal applicator to a cassette containing a plurality of terminals is provided. The system includes a support plate for fixedly attaching to the applicator, and a yoke releasably attached to the support plate. The yoke and support plate define an attachment therebetween providing at least one degree of freedom of motion of the support plate relative to the yoke in an attached state. The yoke is further configured to be movably mounted to the cassette with at least one additional degree of freedom of motion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: TE Connectivity Services GmbH
    Inventors: Matthew Steven Houser, David Michael Stull, Jack DePasquale
  • Publication number: 20220398282
    Abstract: A method for monitoring and managing heterogeneous vendor storage systems may include performing, by a management system, operations including: sending instructions to a vendor storage system among the heterogeneous vendor storage systems to cause the vendor storage system to generate a vendor answer file on the vendor storage system, sending instructions to the vendor storage system to copy vendor data from the generated vendor answer file to volatile memory of the management system, tracking and logging events associated with the copying of the vendor data, validating the copied vendor data based on the logged events, determining standardized reporting data from the validated vendor data in the volatile memory of the management system, saving the standardized reporting data in a data structure formatted for the heterogeneous vendor storage systems, receiving a user query regarding the saved standardized reporting data, and displaying the saved standardized reporting data in a user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: Fidelity Information Services, LLC
    Inventor: Aravind SASIKUMAR