Patents Assigned to Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association
  • Patent number: 11830074
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems for automatically configuring financial product offerings. An example method includes: receiving, by a computer system, a graph model representing a plurality of permutations of definition provisions of a financial product; translating at least a subset of the graph model into definitions of a plurality of business objects; translating the definitions of the plurality of business objects into definitions of a plurality of services to be implemented by an offering of the financial product; receiving, via a user interface, a plurality of service configuration options; applying the plurality of service configuration options to the definitions of the plurality of services; and generating, based on the definitions of the plurality of services, service configuration data for the offering of the financial product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America
    Inventors: Pankaj Agrawal, Alexis S. Pecoraro, James G Rauscher, John V. Hintze, Daniel R. Hursh, Gregory B. Bahns, Edward J. Miller, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11790440
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a search-directed user interface for online banking applications. An example method may comprise: receiving, via a graphical user interface (GUI) session associated with an authenticated user, a search argument comprising a character string; executing, by a processing device, a search query by matching the character string to account data of one or more accounts that the authenticated user is authorized to access, the account data comprising a plurality of data items representing at least one of: financial product types, financial product identifiers, financial transaction types, financial transaction descriptions, financial transaction amounts, portfolio types, accounts, and aggregated financial indicators; and causing a data set produced by executing the search query to be visually represented via the GUI session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America
    Inventors: Scott M. Blandford, Robert A. Lindenberg, Laura Shragowitz, Charles Reitzel, Albert F. Cole, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11783133
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems for supervised machine learning for automated assistants. An example method includes: receiving an automated assistant transcript comprising a plurality of records, wherein each record of the plurality of records comprises a query, a classification of the query, an intent associated with the query, and a responsive action associated with the intent; receiving, via a graphical user interface (GUI), a user input indicating an approval of a new automated assistant transcript record; comparing the new automated assistant transcript record to one or more records of the plurality of records; and responsive to detecting a conflict of the new automated assistant transcript record with one or more records of the plurality of records, displaying, via the GUI, a notification of the conflict.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America
    Inventors: Prem Kumar Sivasankar, Vamsi Pola, Francis McGovern, Charles Gregory Starnes, Zsa-Zsa Porter, Tasneem Hajara, Jennifer Adelhardt, Daniel J. Gibbons, Scott Blandford, Michael Ilfeld, Peter Tsahalis, Justin Meyer, James Titus, Alysce Balbuena, Mehul Shah, Jeffrey Scola, Heather H. Gordon, Claudette Grose, Reena T. Khatwani, Reetu Sharma, Lisa R. Weil
  • Patent number: 11514514
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a search-directed user interface for online banking applications. An example method may comprise: receiving, via a graphical user interface (GUI) session associated with an authenticated user, a search argument comprising a character string; executing, by a processing device, a search query by matching the character string to account data of one or more accounts that the authenticated user is authorized to access, the account data comprising a plurality of data items representing at least one of: financial product types, financial product identifiers, financial transaction types, financial transaction descriptions, financial transaction amounts, portfolio types, accounts, and aggregated financial indicators; and causing a data set produced by executing the search query to be visually represented via the GUI session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: TEACHERS INSURANCE AND ANNUITY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Scott M. Blandford, Robert A. Lindenberg, Laura Shragowitz, Charles Reitzel, Albert F. Cole, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11488257
    Abstract: Methods and systems of applying retroactive adjustments to financial data. An example method includes: receiving one or more adjustment records associated with a financial account; saving a snapshot of the financial account, the snapshot comprising a plurality of transaction records reflecting previously processed transactions associated with the financial account; merging the adjustment records and the transaction records to produce a plurality of adjusted transaction records; processing adjusted transaction records to produce an updated state of the financial account; comparing the saved snapshot to the updated state of the financial account to produce one or more adjustment events; and processing the adjustment events using one or more event processing rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: TEACHERS INSURANCE AND ANNUITY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Alexis Salvatore Pecoraro, Matthew George Nettleton, Gregory Bernard Bahns, Steven Scott Winchester, James Douglas Ecker, John Bruce Englert
  • Patent number: 11416720
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems for model-based data transformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America
    Inventors: Edward J. Miller, Jr., Daniel R. Hursh, Alexis S. Pecoraro, Pankaj Agrawal, James G. Rauscher, John V. Hintze
  • Patent number: 10901875
    Abstract: Systems and methods for evaluating and presenting software testing project status indicators. An example method may comprise: determining, by a computer system, a plurality of project status indicators comprising one or more average test execution rates, a required test execution rate, a test execution schedule variance, an actual test completion ratio, and/or a test completion schedule variance; and causing one or more project status indicators to be displayed in a visual relation to each other, to a timeline, and/or to another project's status indicators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: TEACHERS INSURANCE AND ANNUITY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Scott Matthew Blandford, James Paul Gouin, Andrea Joan Gonsalves, Steven Antony Schweiger, Sampada Sanjay Salunkhe, Donald Robert Buckshi, Paul Jeffrey Russell, Brian David Lomax, David Robert White, Ido Dangur
  • Patent number: 10893065
    Abstract: Methods and systems of malware detection in distributed computer systems. An example method includes: receiving, by a network router, a network packet originated by a client computer; matching the network packet to a default route; forwarding the network packet to a command and control server simulator; and forwarding, to the client computer system, one or more response packets comprising a command and control instruction issued to the client computer system by the command and control server simulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America
    Inventors: Eric J. Johnson, Christopher R. Henson, Xin Ai, Evan Stewart Morgan, Stephen Ward
  • Patent number: 10878492
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a search-directed user interface for online banking applications. An example method may comprise: receiving, via a graphical user interface (GUI) session associated with an authenticated user, a search argument comprising a character string; executing, by a processing device, a search query by matching the character string to account data of one or more accounts that the authenticated user is authorized to access, the account data comprising a plurality of data items representing at least one of: financial product types, financial product identifiers, financial transaction types, financial transaction descriptions, financial transaction amounts, portfolio types, accounts, and aggregated financial indicators; and causing a data set produced by executing the search query to be visually represented via the GUI session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: TEACHERS INSURANCE & ANNUITY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Scott M. Blandford, Robert A. Lindenberg, Laura Shragowitz, Charles Reitzel, Albert F. Cole, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10795744
    Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying failed customer experience in distributed computer systems. An example method comprises: receiving, by an application performance management (APM) server associated with a distributed computer system, an application layer message associated with a request originated by a client computer system responsive to an action by a user; identifying a failed customer experience error by analyzing the application layer message; and causing a first graph to be rendered by a graphical user interface in a visual association with a second graph representing a number of user login events grouped by a pre-defined period of time, wherein the first graph represents a number of identified failed customer experience errors grouped by the pre-defined period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
  • Patent number: 10585666
    Abstract: Systems and methods for visual presentation of metrics reflecting lifecycle events of software artifacts. An example method may comprise: receiving one or more data processing rules, each data processing rule specifying one or more operations to be performed on one or more raw data items reflecting lifecycle events associated with a software artifact; receiving, from one or more data collection agents, a plurality of raw data items; producing, by applying the data processing rules to the plurality of raw data items, a plurality of values of a metric reflecting lifecycle events associated with a plurality of software artifacts; and causing the values to be graphically represented using a graphical user interface (GUI) communicatively coupled to the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America
    Inventors: Stanislav Antons, Thomas Steven Joyce, William V. Arneth, III, LeeAnn Marie Flanagan, Weston John Gaddis, Thomas Fredrick Krall, Jennifer D'awn Jeffress, Christopher Joseph Heidenfelder, Elizabeth Anne MacDonald, Nathaniel Bates, Gary R. Couture, Scott M. Blandford, Thomas J. Goodnough, Byron Leslie Griffin, Andrea J. Vient
  • Patent number: 10574680
    Abstract: Methods and systems of malware detection in distributed computer systems. An example method includes: receiving, by a network router, a network packet originated by a client computer; matching the network packet to a default route; forwarding the network packet to a command and control server simulator; and forwarding, to the client computer system, one or more response packets comprising a command and control instruction issued to the client computer system by the command and control server simulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America
    Inventors: Eric J. Johnson, Christopher R. Henson, Xin Ai, Evan Stewart Morgan, Stephen Ward
  • Patent number: 10437707
    Abstract: Systems and methods for evaluating and presenting software testing project status indicators. An example method may comprise: determining, by a computer system, a plurality of project status indicators comprising one or more average test execution rates, a required test execution rate, a test execution schedule variance, an actual test completion ratio, and/or a test completion schedule variance; and causing one or more project status indicators to be displayed in a visual relation to each other, to a timeline, and/or to another project's status indicators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America
    Inventors: Scott Matthew Blandford, James Paul Gouin, Andrea Joan Gonsalves, Steven Antony Schweiger, Sampada Sanjay Salunkhe, Donald Robert Buckshi, Paul Jeffrey Russell, Brian David Lomax, David Robert White, Ido Dangur
  • Patent number: 10310849
    Abstract: Systems and methods for visual presentation of metrics reflecting lifecycle events of software artifacts. An example method may comprise: receiving one or more data processing rules, each data processing rule specifying one or more operations to be performed on one or more raw data items reflecting lifecycle events associated with a software artifact; receiving, from one or more data collection agents, a plurality of raw data items; producing, by applying the data processing rules to the plurality of raw data items, a plurality of values of a metric reflecting lifecycle events associated with a plurality of software artifacts; and causing the values to be graphically represented using a graphical user interface (GUI) communicatively coupled to the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America
    Inventors: Stanislav Antons, Thomas Steven Joyce, William V. Arneth, III, LeeAnn Marie Flanagan, Weston John Gaddis, Thomas Fredrick Krall, Jennifer D'awn Jeffress, Christopher Joseph Heidenfelder, Elizabeth Anne MacDonald, Nathaniel Bates, Gary R. Couture, Scott M. Blandford, Thomas J. Goodnough, Byron Leslie Griffin, Andrea J. Vient
  • Patent number: 10103961
    Abstract: Systems and methods for collecting client-side application performance monitoring (APM) information in distributed computer systems. An example method may comprise: inserting a script code fragment into an electronic document to be transmitted to a client computing device, wherein the script code fragment is to issue a request for loading an object from a second computer system, the request comprising at least one of: a parameter of a client browser executed by the client computing device, a parameter of an application being executed within the client browser, or a parameter of a current session of the client browser; and transmitting the electronic document to at least one of: the second computer system or the client computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Teacher Insurance & Annuity Association of America
    Inventors: Ethan Luke Michaud, Mathew Wade Pickering, Rafael Pedro Olaso, Matthew M. Bechard, Janusz M. Juda, James Ronald Hixon, William Val Arneth, III, Nathaniel John Bates, Latrisha Devon Whitehead, Gary Robert Couture, Louis Anthony Iannucci, Scott M. Blandford
  • Patent number: 10048994
    Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying failed customer experience in distributed computer systems. An example method may comprise: receiving, by a processing device of a distributed computer system, a first application layer message associated with a request originated by a client computer system responsive to an action by a user, wherein the first application layer message comprises a transaction identifier identifying a sequence of messages originated by one or more components of the distributed computer system and associated with the request; identifying a pre-defined byte pattern comprised by the first application layer message; and identifying, based on the pre-defined byte pattern, at least one of: a system error associated with the transaction or an application error associated with the transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
  • Patent number: 9847926
    Abstract: Systems and methods for presenting application performance monitoring data in distributed computer systems. An example method may comprise: receiving, by a processing device, one or more application performance monitoring (APM) rules, each APM rule determining an application operational status based on one or more APM parameters; receiving APM data comprising a plurality of APM data items representing values of the APM parameters of a software application; determining an operational status of the software application by applying the APM rules to the APM data; and causing the operational status to be visually represented via a graphical user interface (GUI).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
  • Patent number: 9705980
    Abstract: Systems and methods for visualization of performance parameters of distributed computer systems. An example method may comprise: receiving data representing a geographic location of a client computer system issuing a plurality of requests to a server computer system, the data further comprising a plurality of values representing one or more parameters of request processing by the server computer system; and generating a sequence of video frames, each video frame of the sequence of video frames comprising a visual element of a pre-defined shape overlaid over a geographic map in a position corresponding to the geographic location of the client computer system, wherein a pre-defined attribute of the visual element visually represents one or more values of the plurality of values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America
    Inventors: Ethan Luke Michaud, Mathew Wade Pickering, Nathaniel John Bates, Janusz M. Juda, Thomas Steven Joyce, William Val Arneth, III, Latrisha Devon Whitehead, Gary Robert Couture, Louis Anthony Iannucci, Scott M. Blandford
  • Patent number: 9648078
    Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying a browser for rendering an electronic document. An example method may comprise: intercepting, by a software component being executed by a computer system within a context of a first browser, a procedure call to open a new browser window for rendering an electronic document; identifying, in view of an identifier of the electronic document, a second browser; and causing the second browser to render the electronic document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association
    Inventors: John R. Seidle, Jr., Rodney W. Bass, John Knam, Yogesh Dnyandeo Khachane, Scott M. Blandford, Andrew Eugene Kettering
  • Patent number: 9509749
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing transaction identifiers for application performance management in distributed computer systems. An example method may comprise: receiving, by a first computer system, a first message; identifying, based on a pre-defined byte pattern, an incoming transaction identifier within the first message; responsive to failing to identify the incoming transaction identifier, generating a new transaction identifier; transmitting, to a second computer system, a second message associated with the first message, the second message comprising a transaction identifier provided by one of: the incoming transaction identifier or the new transaction identifier; and transmitting, to a third computer system, a third message representing a log record, the third message comprising the transaction identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America
    Inventors: Ethan Luke Michaud, Mathew Wade Pickering, Janusz M. Juda, Prabhu Purushothaman, Thomas Steven Joyce, William Val Arneth, III, Latrisha Devon Whitehead, Matthew Maclean Bechard, James Ronald Hixon, Jennifer D'Awn Jeffress, Rafael Pedro Olaso, Gary Robert Couture, Louis Anthony Iannucci, Scott M. Blandford