Patents Assigned to The Western Union Company
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Patent number: 11979333Abstract: Systems, methods, and machine-readable media facilitate adaptive multi-system operations. Electronic communications from resource-controlling systems and/or monitoring devices may be monitored to identify signals corresponding to processes performed by the resource-controlling systems, resource capacities of resources controlled by the resource-controlling systems, and states of the resource-controlling systems. System interactions that correspond to a defined event may be detected. A protocol that includes parameter constraints mapped to the defined event identified. Operating conditions of the resource-controlling systems and/or metrics of processes performed may be determined based on the monitoring. A subset of the resource-controlling systems may be identified as a function of the operating conditions and/or the metrics. A resource-controlling system may be caused to allocate corresponding resources and perform the processes in accordance with the protocol.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: THE WESTERN UNION COMPANYInventors: Sundaresh Sathasivan, Manjot Sohi, Charmi Shah, Sanjay Sankolli, Ajit Kulkarni, Praveen Kumar Nagle, Dattatreya Akella, Sandipan Pal, Dhanya Nair
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Patent number: 11954666Abstract: A method for identifying a funds transfer opportunity in an electronic media accessed by a mobile device may include monitoring the electronic media for the funds transfer opportunity, identifying the funds transfer opportunity in the electronic media, and outputting indication for the funds transfer opportunity in the electronic media. The method may further include receiving confirmation to instantiate a funds transfer based on the indicated funds transfer opportunity on the mobile device and instantiating the funds transfer based on the received confirmation.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: The Western Union CompanyInventor: Craig Brooks
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Patent number: 11941603Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate generally to a multipurpose smartphone device. More specifically, embodiments described herein disclose a smartphone that is capable of being used as a point-of-sale (POS) device.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: The Western Union CompanyInventors: Abhinav Gupta, Khalid Fellahi
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Patent number: 11929985Abstract: Techniques and systems for optimizing and cleaning rules for network-based authentication transactions are provided herein. A network-based authentication system may determine a plurality of rules that were previously used to evaluate a plurality of transactions. The network-based authentication system may also generate a false positive rate for one or more of the plurality of rules, A cleaning coefficient for a first rule of the plurality of rules may be generated by the network-based authentication system. Based on the cleaning coefficient and the false positive rate, the network-based authentication system may identify one or more rules from the plurality of rules to eliminate from the plurality of rules. The network-based authentication system may eliminate the one or more rules to generate a modified set of rules. Using the modified set of rules, the network-based authentication system may authenticate a network transaction.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: The Western Union CompanyInventors: Chaoyun Chen, Quan Li, Zifang Huang
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Patent number: 11847638Abstract: A method includes establishing a first funds transfer account associated with a first device and a second funds transfer account with a second device, funding at least the first fund account, and selecting the second device as the recipient of a funds transfer from the first device. The method further includes sending a communications link request from the first device to the second device and receiving acceptance of the communications link request from the second device. The method then establishes a communications link between the first device and the second device, initiates a funds transfer from the first device to the second device, wherein the amount is designated at the first device, and verifies the funds transfer amount, the first funds transfer account, and the second funds transfer account. Then, the method transfers the amount to the second funds transfer account associated with second device.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2020Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: The Western Union CompanyInventor: Kimberly Dunwoody
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Patent number: 11838289Abstract: The embodiments described herein relate generally to securely establishing an account and authentication metrics associated with a communication platform. An account associated with a communication platform may allow a user associated with the account to send and receive communications via the communication platform.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: The Western Union CompanyInventors: Abhinav Gupta, Shankar Narayan
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Patent number: 11809603Abstract: Techniques and systems for protecting data input to a web-based application are provided herein. A method may include executing, within a web browser being executed by a computer system, a web-based application. Execution of the web-based application may include tagging one or more data fields as sensitive and fetching a public key from a remote server system. The method may include identifying, by the web-based application, a keystroke entry being input into the one or more data fields tagged as sensitive within the web-based application. Prior to storing the keystroke entry in memory mapped to the web browser, the method may include encrypting by the web-based application, the keystroke entry using the fetched public key to generate an encrypted entry. The web browser may store the encrypted entry to memory. Importantly, the keystroke entry may never be stored to the memory of the web browser in an unencrypted form.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2020Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: The Western Union CompanyInventors: Anthony Scillieri, Soumi Sarkar, Dmitriy Borinshteyn, Vikram Bhagat, Manjeet Kishan Kola
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Publication number: 20230328036Abstract: Techniques and systems for optimizing and cleaning rules for network-based authentication transactions are provided herein. A network-based authentication system may determine a plurality of rules that were previously used to evaluate a plurality of transactions. The network-based authentication system may also generate a false positive rate for one or more of the plurality of rules, A cleaning coefficient for a first rule of the plurality of rules may be generated by the network-based authentication system. Based on the cleaning coefficient and the false positive rate, the network-based authentication system may identify one or more rules from the plurality of rules to eliminate from the plurality of rules. The network-based authentication system may eliminate the one or more rules to generate a modified set of rules. Using the modified set of rules, the network-based authentication system may authenticate a network transaction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicant: The Western Union CompanyInventors: Chaoyun Chen, Quan Li, Zifang Huang
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Patent number: 11765221Abstract: Systems, methods, and machine-readable media are provided to facilitate adaptive security and cooperative multi-system operations in conformance with dynamic protocols. An implementation of the protocol that includes parameter constraints mapped to the defined event may be generated, defining an operation flow in response to detection of a defined event at a remote system and transforming the protocol into an executable process that applies to at least one remote system. References to metadata specifications may be transmitted that include specifications of interface elements and cause interface configuring in accordance with the specifications. Upon determination that responses satisfy the parameter constraints, access to a resource may be controlled in accordance with the protocol, or, upon determination that the responses fail to satisfy the parameter constraints, an alert may be transmitted that is indicative of at least one of the references and/or additional references to second metadata specifications.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: The Western Union CompanyInventors: Christopher J. Luciano, Pankaj Jain, Praveen K. Makhija, Alexander Varakin, Wrena Dsouza
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Patent number: 11741540Abstract: This disclosure describes, generally, methods and systems for exchanging alternative currencies. The method includes creating, at an alternative currency platform, a plurality of user accounts and receiving, from a first user in the plurality of user accounts, an alternative currency exchange offer. The alternative currency exchange offer includes one or more offer terms and associated assets. Furthermore, the method includes extending the alternative currency exchange offer from the first user to the second user, in response to receiving acceptance of the offer from the second user, verifying the associated assets of the first user and the second user, and in response to verification of the assets of the first user and second user, providing settlement of the alternative currency exchange offer.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2020Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: The Western Union CompanyInventors: Evans Mehew, Gail Galuppo
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Patent number: 11700529Abstract: A method for authenticating a mobile device in real-time. The method includes detecting the mobile device, sending a text message containing a unique uniform resource locator (“URL”) to the mobile device, and detecting an access of the unique URL by the mobile device through a first communication path. In response to detecting the access of the unique URL, requesting and subsequently receiving, by the host system in real-time, a phone number and a subscriber identification ID associated with the mobile device through a second communication path distinct from the first communication path, and a device fingerprint of the mobile device through the first communication path. The method further includes initiating a risk analysis based on the phone number, the subscriber ID, and the device fingerprint and determining an authentication status of the mobile device based on the risk analysis.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2021Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: The Western Union CompanyInventors: Abhinav Gupta, Bernard McManus, Don McNelley
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Publication number: 20230179536Abstract: Systems, methods, and machine-readable media facilitate adaptive multi-system operations. Electronic communications from resource-controlling systems and/or monitoring devices may be monitored to identify signals corresponding to processes performed by the resource-controlling systems, resource capacities of resources controlled by the resource-controlling systems, and states of the resource-controlling systems. System interactions that correspond to a defined event may be detected. A protocol that includes parameter constraints mapped to the defined event identified. Operating conditions of the resource-controlling systems and/or metrics of processes performed may be determined based on the monitoring. A subset of the resource-controlling systems may be identified as a function of the operating conditions and/or the metrics. A resource-controlling system may be caused to allocate corresponding resources and perform the processes in accordance with the protocol.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2022Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicant: The Western Union CompanyInventors: Sundaresh Sathasivan, Manjot Sohi, Charmi Shah, Sanjay Sankolli, Ajit Kulkarni, Praveen Kumar Nagle, Dattatreya Akella, Sandipan Pal, Dhanya Nair
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Patent number: 11663639Abstract: The present invention provides systems and methods for tracking obligations incurred between individuals. The method may include receiving a request from a first party, where the request includes an expense incurred by the first party for the benefit of a second party. The method may also include providing a notice of the request to the second party and receiving an acceptance from the second party to assume an obligation associated with the expense. The method may further include associating the obligation with the second party and associating a benefit with the first party. The obligation and/or benefit may be substantially equal in value to the expense. The method may additionally include interfacing with a social network service to provide the social network service with information about the obligation and/or the benefit.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2021Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: The Western Union CompanyInventors: Michele Demark, Michael Michelsen, Diane Scott, Chris Cochran
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Publication number: 20230156036Abstract: Techniques and systems for detecting malicious activity within a network are provided herein. A method for detecting malicious activity within a network may include receiving, by a network-based authentication system, a network transaction. The network-based authentication system may identify a first attribute of the network transaction. The method may also include selecting, by the network-based authentication system, a first learning statistical model and a second learning statistical model from a plurality of models for handling the network transaction. Each of the first learning statistical model and the second learning statistical model may create a likelihood that the network transaction is authentic. The first learning statistical model may calculate a first score and the second learning statistical score may calculate a second score. Based on a comparison of the first score to a first threshold and the second score to a second threshold, the network transaction may be authenticated.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2023Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicant: The Western Union CompanyInventors: Noel Brandt, Robert Enzaldo, Charles Champion, Brent Lemieux
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Patent number: 11651348Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for configuring a web application for global money transfers include a customer mobile device, a processor, and a memory having processor-readable instructions that cause the processor to collect data from a web application, whereby the web application is provided on the customer mobile device in operative communication with the host computer, and determine at least one of an optional field and a required field based on the collected data. The at least one optional field and required field may receive input for conducting a money transfer. The processor-readable instructions may cause the processor to send instructions to a user interface (“UI”) for the web application, whereby the instructions are indicative of the at least one optional field and required field, and configure the UI to display the at least one optional field and required field at the web application of the customer mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: The Western Union CompanyInventors: Vijaya Kouru, Tarun Bhagwan, Sanjay Saraf
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Publication number: 20230071195Abstract: Techniques and systems for determining a malicious derivative entity within a network are provided herein. A method for determining a malicious derivative entity may include receiving, by a network-based authentication system, a plurality of network transactions. A first attribute of a network transaction within the plurality of network transactions may be identified. The method may also include identifying a plurality of entities for the first attribute. The network-based authentication system may generate a first visual representation of a relationship between the first attribute and the plurality of derivative entities. Each of the derivative entities and the first attribute may be represented as nodes within the first visual representation. A first score for each of the nodes may be determined based on a degree of centrality of the nodes within the first visual representation. One network transaction may be blocked based on at least one node exceeding a first threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2022Publication date: March 9, 2023Applicant: The Western Union CompanyInventors: Noel Brandt, Robert Enzaldo, Charles Champion, Brent Lemieux
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Patent number: 11558420Abstract: Techniques and systems for detecting malicious activity within a network are provided herein. A method for detecting malicious activity within a network may include receiving, by a network-based authentication system, a network transaction. The network-based authentication system may identify a first attribute of the network transaction. The method may also include selecting, by the network-based authentication system, a first learning statistical model and a second learning statistical model from a plurality of models for handling the network transaction. Each of the first learning statistical model and the second learning statistical model may create a likelihood that the network transaction is authentic. The first learning statistical model may calculate a first score and the second learning statistical score may calculate a second score. Based on a comparison of the first score to a first threshold and the second score to a second threshold, the network transaction may be authenticated.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: The Western Union CompanyInventors: Noel Brandt, Robert Enzaldo, Charles Champion, Brent Lemieux
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Publication number: 20220383336Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying and mitigating non-compliances include determining an agent location of a money service business for review, obtaining a photograph and geographic coordinates of the agent location, and collecting field data at the agent location through a mobile application. Such information are sent from the mobile application to a central server of a third party vendor for a series of quality checks and stored at the central server. Such information may be used for further corrective action against the agent location reviewed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2022Publication date: December 1, 2022Applicant: The Western Union CompanyInventors: Manju Rai, Murali Ravichandran, Jacqueline Molnar, Noel Brandt, Niren Kinikar
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Patent number: 11509687Abstract: Techniques and systems for determining a malicious derivative entity within a network are provided herein. A method for determining a malicious derivative entity may include receiving, by a network-based authentication system, a plurality of network transactions. A first attribute of a network transaction within the plurality of network transactions may be identified. The method may also include identifying a plurality of entities for the first attribute. The network-based authentication system may generate a first visual representation of a relationship between the first attribute and the plurality of derivative entities. Each of the derivative entities and the first attribute may be represented as nodes within the first visual representation. A first score for each of the nodes may be determined based on a degree of centrality of the nodes within the first visual representation. One network transaction may be blocked based on at least one node exceeding a first threshold.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: The Western Union CompanyInventors: Noel Brandt, Robert Enzaldo, Charles Champion, Brent Lemieux
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Patent number: 11501266Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for conducting transactions and financial transfers utilizing a mobile device communicatively coupled with a mobile communications network and executing a mobile point-of-sale application. According to some embodiments, the mobile point-of-sale application is adapted to conduct money transfer transactions by communicating transaction information through the mobile communications network to a money transfer provider system that processes the money transfer and communicates receipt information to the mobile point-of-sale application. Additionally, according to some embodiments, an account associated with an agent of the money transfer provider can be used in money transfer transactions conducted by the mobile point-of-sale application.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2020Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: The Western Union CompanyInventors: Rebecca Mann, Sanjay Challani