Patents Assigned to Well Fargo Bank, N.A.
  • Patent number: 11977658
    Abstract: Composite biometric authentication is provided to multiple users that share a financial account. The users can enroll the account for composite biometric authentication. The enrollment can include recording multiple biometrics of each user and storing them as a composite to use in authenticating user requests to authorize transactions involving the shared financial account. A unique combination of biometrics can be generated including a biometric of the multiple biometrics of each of the users and stored such that the unique combination must be provided to authenticate a future user request. To proceed with a transaction, a user of the multiple users initiates the transaction and provides their part of the unique combination. The other users provide their part of the unique combination by providing the specific biometric of the multiple biometrics they have previously provided. The transaction proceeds when all shares of the unique combination are provided and authenticated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventor: Rameshchandra Bhaskar Ketharaju
  • Patent number: 11978475
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for predicting an emotion based on speech and text derived from the speech. An example method includes capturing speech and generating hidden vectors based on the speech and text derived from the speech. The example method further includes generating a word aligned hidden vector based on the speech hidden vector and text hidden vector. The example method further includes generating a hidden vector based on the word aligned hidden vector and the text hidden vector. The example method further includes, after further processing of the final vector, generating one or more probabilities corresponding to one or more emotions. The example method finally includes determining a next action based on the generated one or more probabilities corresponding to one or more emotions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Vinothkumar Venkataraman, Rahul Ignatius, Renuka Mannem, Naveen Gururaja Yeri, Paul Davis
  • Patent number: 11978033
    Abstract: A system includes a secondary computing device not owned by a user, a hardware processor, a memory and instructions that cause the processor to generate a transient wallet identifier (ID) for a transient mobile wallet, the transient mobile wallet being of limited duration, and provide a configuration user interface the user, presenting configuration information for the transient mobile wallet. The processor also identifies a usage specification for the transient mobile wallet defining allowed uses for the transient mobile wallet. The processor also activates the transient mobile wallet on the secondary computing device, receives a payment transaction approval request, compares the payment transaction data to the usage specification, determines that the payment transaction data is non-conforming, and transmits a rejection message for the first payment transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventor: Joon Maeng
  • Patent number: 11978109
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide for integrating a wallet client with federated directory services are disclosed herein. By integrating merchant services, such as directory services with a wallet service provider, wallet clients on mobile devices can have access to all merchant listings without having to manually add each directory service. The system disclosed herein integrates Chamber of Commerce directory service listings with the wallet client, such that when a request for a merchant directory service is received from a device associated with the wallet client, the request is forwarded to a federated directory service wallet system interface operated by a Chamber of Commerce site. Supply chain data that matches the request, and location information that is included in the request, is then fetched from the federated directory service wallet system interface and forwarded to the device that sent the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventor: Thomas Hayes
  • Patent number: 11978094
    Abstract: A pervasive advisor for major purchases and other expenditures may detect that a customer is contemplating a major purchase (e.g., through active listening). The advisor may assist the customer with the timing and manner of making the purchase in a way that is financially sensible in view of the customer's financial situation. A customer may be provided with dynamically-updated information in response to recent actions that may affect an approved loan amount and/or interest rate. Underwriting of a loan may be triggered based on the geo-location of the user. Financial advice may be provided to customers to help them meet their goals using information obtained from third party sources, such as purchase options based on particular goals. The pervasive advisor may thus intervene to assist with budgeting, financing, and timing of major expenditures based on the customer's location and on the customer's unique and changing circumstances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Balin K. Brandt, Laura Fisher, Marie Jeanette Floyd, Katherine J. McGee, Teresa Lynn Rench, Sruthi Vangala
  • Patent number: 11978042
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for setting credentials for accounts, or cards associated with accounts, are provided. A queue of credentials may be maintained for facilitating access to at least one account of a user. Credentials in the queue may be automatically generated using information provided by the user without additional input from the user. A deactivation event relating to the account may be detected, in response to which one credential for the account may be deactivated. A new credential from the queue may be activated to facilitate access to the account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Gerard K. Cohen, Michelle D. Green, Christopher P. Smith
  • Patent number: 11979452
    Abstract: A system includes a data storage system, and a processor and program logic. The program logic includes a management console, including interface logic configured to provide a user interface. The interface logic is also configured to receive a request to record a demo of a Web application via the user interface. The program logic also includes a recording utility. The recording utility includes recording logic configured to, upon receiving the request to record, capture a first instance of underlying client-side code and assets utilized to render the Web application. The program logic further includes data consolidation and storage logic configured to save the first instance to a database. Further yet, the program logic includes demo editing logic configured to create a demo of the Web application based on the first instance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Christina Luah, Marcus Lee
  • Patent number: 11977603
    Abstract: Disclosed is an approach for evaluating internal consistency of object classifications using machine learning modeling. In an example, models are iteratively trained, using supervised learning, on different majority segments (e.g., about 90%) of a dataset as training data segments. Trained models can be applied to the remaining data (e.g., about 10%) as test data segments to obtain, for each object, a predicted classification and a confidence score. Models in training iterations (e.g., 10 iterations) may be independently trained on substantially non-overlapping test data segments (with each iteration testing, e.g., about 10% of the dataset). When a model's predicted classification disagrees from a prior classification, and the confidence of the prediction is sufficiently high (indicating sufficiently strong disagreement), the object's prior classification may be revised. Training data, other than the data itself being evaluated for consistency, is not necessarily required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Carleton J. Lindgren, Manesh Saini, Hasan Adem Yilmaz
  • Patent number: 11978026
    Abstract: A method for transferring funds to a second electronic computing device includes establishing a first pre-paid payment account on a first electronic computing device. The first pre-paid payment account is used to establish one or more second pre-paid payment accounts. The one or more second pre-paid payment accounts have a value that is less than or equal to the first pre-paid payment account. A first account identifier is obtained for one of the second pre-paid payment accounts. The first account identifier is sent to the second electronic computing device. The sending of the first account identifier to the second electronic computing device results in a transfer of ownership of the one more second pre-paid accounts from a first user at the first electronic computing device to a second user at the second electronic computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventor: Thomas B. Hayes
  • Patent number: 11978039
    Abstract: The innovation discloses systems, methods and computer program products that reduce complexity and associated measures that are taken to ensure trust in secured transactions as necessitated by requirements present only in an ecommerce environment that do not have a parallel with traditional bricks and mortar commercial transactions. The innovation enables a multitude of mobile wallet applications to engage and obtain services from ecommerce applications wherein backend processing by a mobile wallet server obtains and delivers funds to ecommerce applications without sharing a subset of sensitive data, associated with a mobile wallet application user for the secured transactions. The innovation further provides for a wallet network to be initiated and engaged in which the secured transactions can take place, adopting and adapting social network application connectivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Sudheendranath R. Bhatt, Ramanathan Ramanathan, Sai Krishna Madhavi Chitta, Rahul N. Jain, Pradeep R. Kumar, Rameshchandra Bhaskar Ketharaju, Mushnuri Veera Venkata Kiran Kumar
  • Publication number: 20240144183
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of techniques or systems for intelligent data presentation are provided herein. Data can be presented on similar devices having different characteristics in different manners. For example, data may be rendered in a first manner on a first device having one monitor, the same data may be rendered in a second manner on a second device having two displays or a different display size. Financial information, sales data, banking information, etc. may be presented in a variety of ways based on capabilities or properties of a device accessing the information or data. Similarly, renderings may be selected based on interaction capabilities or interaction options a user may have with different renderings or presentations. In other embodiments, user interaction with an automated teller machine (ATM), call center, vehicle, or other interface can be based on device properties or device capabilities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Stephen M. Ellis, Bipin Sahni, David Hatch, Shahid Razzaq
  • Publication number: 20240146767
    Abstract: Systems and methods in accordance with present implementations can include decrypting, by one or more processors, a data packet using a session key to recover a decrypted data packet, the data packet comprising a data element encrypted with a first content-specific key associated with a shared secret, the data packet encrypted with the session key, and decrypting, by the one or more processors, the data element of the decrypted data packet using a second content-specific key corresponding to a data type of the data element, to recover a decrypted data element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Phillip H. Griffin, Jeffrey J. Stapleton
  • Publication number: 20240144209
    Abstract: A method includes determining a payment amount based in response to receiving a transaction request; providing transaction data to a user device in response to initiating a transaction with a user device, the transaction data including the payment amount; receiving user data from the user device, the user data including a request to provide funds via a payment rail and account information identifying a first institution associated with the user device; and receiving a funds received confirmation from a second institution computing system. The funds received confirmation is provided to the terminal device in response to a fund transfer corresponding with the payment amount being received by the second institution computing system from a payment rail. The payment rail receives the fund transfer from the first institution computing system in response to the transaction data being provided to the first institution computing system from the user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank N.A.
    Inventors: Brent Teitel, Michelle E. Ziolkowski
  • Publication number: 20240144283
    Abstract: A financial institution computing system includes a network circuit exchanging information over a network, a customer database storing financial information, and a transaction circuit. The transaction circuit receives a transaction request associated with a user computing device. The transaction request specifies a financial account. The transaction circuit receives payment card location information indicative of a location of a payment card with respect to the user computing device. The payment card location information indicates that the payment card is within a threshold distance of the user computing device. The transaction circuit authenticates the transaction request using the payment card location information and by determining whether the payment card is associated with an authorized user of the financial account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Tiffany N. Twilley, Michael Tilaro, Jonathan E. Hoveland, Sara V. Althoff, Jay M. Bozicevich
  • Publication number: 20240144214
    Abstract: Examples described herein relate to apparatuses and methods for reducing an amount of time that a user of a drive-up banking system is exposed to outdoor environmental conditions. A method includes detecting, by a drive-up banking system, a presence of a vehicle proximate the drive-up banking system; projecting, by the drive-up banking system, a user interface onto a vehicle window such that the user interface is visible to the occupant of the vehicle; receiving, by the drive-up banking system, information indicative of an identity of the occupant of the vehicle; determining, by the drive-up banking system, an account corresponding to the occupant of the vehicle; requesting, by the user interface, transaction information; receiving, by the user interface, information indicative of the transaction information; and conducting, by the drive-up banking system, a transaction based on the transaction information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventor: Dennis E. Montenegro
  • Publication number: 20240144252
    Abstract: A computer-based network system and method for using a payment vehicle having an on and off function. The system comprises a payment vehicle comprising an on and off function to enable or to disable the payment vehicle in the computer-based network for processing an electronic payment transaction, a holder of the payment vehicle, and a computer payment network wherein the computer payment network comprises a transaction engine for enabling or for disabling the payment vehicle at a request of the holder of the payment vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Michael T. Duke, Dean Patrick Nolan
  • Patent number: 11969084
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for tactile user input are described herein. A tactile user input system includes a tactile input device and a smart table. The smart table comprises a display screen, a network interface, and a processing circuit. The processing circuit comprises a processor and a memory. The processing circuit is configured to sense a placement of the tactile input device on the smart table. The processing circuit is further configured to determine a necessary user input and determine a location of the tactile input device on the smart table. The processing circuit is further configured to rearrange a user interface of the smart table. The processing circuit is further configured to communicate a necessary input configuration to the tactile input device and used by the tactile input device to generate a tactile user interface having an appropriate layout based on the necessary input configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Kourtney Eidam, Darren M. Goetz, Dennis E. Montenegro
  • Patent number: 11973870
    Abstract: A system is provided. The system comprises a processing circuit communicably coupled with various circuits, and the processing circuit having at least one processor coupled to at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the processing circuit to receive an input from a user identifying an experience provider for data sharing, configure a permission set for the experience provider, receive a request for access to data of the user from a computing system, authenticate the request for access to data of the user, generate an access token that serves as a proxy to the stored permission set associated with the experience provider, provide the generated access token to the computing system, receive a subsequent request for data of the user from the computing system, and provide data of the user as identified by the access token.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Chintan Mehta, Jason Strle
  • Patent number: 11972402
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for performing a peer-to-peer (P2P) transfer by a third-party, where a method includes receiving transfer information and a first token including sender information of a sender and a second token including receiver information of a receiver, and validating the first token and the second token based on verifying both the sender and the receiver are registered with the real-time payment system. The method includes processing the first token and the second token based on determining a sender endpoint, a receiver endpoint, and a demand deposit account of the sender, and transmitting a request for a guarantee, the request for the guarantee including the sender endpoint and the demand deposit account of the sender. The method includes receiving an issued guarantee, transferring funds based on the transfer information, the first token, and the second token, and transmitting a transfer confirmation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Alan W. Hecht, Ann M. Kirk, Brian M. Pearce, Steven E. Puffer, Wairnola Marria Rhodriquez, Javier S. Silva
  • Patent number: 11972401
    Abstract: A system, method, and apparatus for a funds transfer is provided. A method includes: receiving a fund transfer request from a user regarding a payee and an amount of funds to transfer to the payee; sending the fund transfer request to a computing system; receiving an identification of the payee; receiving an identification of a data collision regarding information associated with the payee and another user; prompting the user to verify that the information regarding the identification of the payee is correct; receiving an indication from a user; sending an instruction that facilitates identification of the payee by resolving the data collision by deactivating an association of at least some overlapping information with the another user; receiving a message indicating that a fund transfer corresponding to the fund transfer request has been completed; and providing a message indicating that the fund transfer has been completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Alan W. Hecht, Azita Asefi, Ann M. Kirk