Patents Examined by Ayal I. Sharon
  • Patent number: 12380451
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for transmitting push notification data to a computing device, the push notification data being processable by the computing device to display a push notification, receiving biometric data, the biometric data being provided from user input responsive to the push notification, determining that a user providing the user input is authenticated at least partially based on the biometric data, and inducing execution of a transaction in response to determining that the user is authenticated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventor: Ryan Fillinger
  • Patent number: 12361482
    Abstract: A system that facilitates a transfer of an amount of funds associated with a line of credit to a gaming establishment account and then to a gaming device, such as an EGM, wherein the amount of funds associated with the line of credit is separately tracked by the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
  • Patent number: 12333543
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a payment method, a client, an electronic device, a storage medium, and a server. The method includes: receiving a payment instruction of a user; generating, according to audio information in a voice input of the user, a voice feature vector of the audio information; performing matching between the voice feature vector and a user feature vector; and when the matching succeeds, sending personal information associated with the user feature vector to a server, so that the server performs a payment operation for a resource account associated with the personal information. The method can bring convenience to shopping by a consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LIMITED
    Inventors: Gang Liu, Qingen Zhao, Guangxing Liu
  • Patent number: 12321909
    Abstract: Systems and methods disclosed herein include a mobile solution to enable users to perform financial transaction over a network using a mobile device. These techniques allow users to maintain a single personal account identifier or number (“PAN”) on the user's mobile device and to utilize it to access a plurality of linked financial accounts and sub-accounts. Any one of the accounts can be selected by a user on the mobile device to remotely deposit funds to that account based on an image of a financial payment instrument. The image can be obtained using image capture technology on the user's mobile device. Users can perform a financial transaction using the verified images over a network in order to conduct a remote financial transaction such as applying a deposit, a payment, or cash load to a designated account which is linked to the user's mobile account in real-time or near real-time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventor: Penny Diane Jurss
  • Patent number: 12277597
    Abstract: A bank account can be authenticated or confirmed by a user providing an account number and a debit card number. The payment provider then obtains user account information from the bank through a debit card network. The payment provider authenticates the account if the account numbers match. In another embodiment, authentication further requires a portion of a current bank balance in the account provided by the user to match the current balance received from the bank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventor: Qilin Hu
  • Patent number: 12271905
    Abstract: Various embodiments are related to apparatuses and methods for enabling a sender to perform monetary transactions for a requestor. A sender can use, for example, a payment application associated with a payment processing system to perform a monetary transaction for a requestor. The payment processing system can send information related to the monetary transaction to, for example, a sender-requestor association component. When the monetary transaction is a deposit, the sender can receive funds for the deposit from the requestor. The platform can debit the requestor's financial account for the deposit amount and credit the sender's financial account with the debit account as a physical cash transaction occurs between the sender and the requestor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Block, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Dahn
  • Patent number: 12266018
    Abstract: The Use Determination Risk Coverage Datastructure for On-Demand and Increased Efficiency Coverage Detection and Rebalancing Apparatuses, Processes and Systems (“UDRCD”) transforms coverage enrollment request, event signal, ACGG request, search request, props ratios calculation request, encounters build request, episodes build request, price calculation request, price range generation request, price range lookup request inputs via UDRCD components into coverage enrollment response, add-in recommendation, ACGG response, search response, props ratios calculation response, encounters build response, episodes build response, price calculation response, price range generation resp., price range lookup resp. outputs. An episodes build request datastructure identifying an encounter type is obtained. An anchor encounter datastructure is selected. A set of other encounter datastructures for the anchor encounter datastructure is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Bind Benefits, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Miller, David Dickey, Henning Chiv, Matthew Chock, Glen Eiden, Trevor Fast, Shawn Wagoner, Matthew Wiandt, Jessica Zeaske, Nels Marcus Thygeson, Charley Hastings, Jason Haupt, Mark Peterson, Maxwell L. Peterson, Benjamin Kowitt, Thomas Anton Klun
  • Patent number: 12266014
    Abstract: A loan process smart contract manages a collateralized loan process for a loan against a collateralized item, the collateralized loan process including tokenizing and locking a collateral token that tokenizes the collateral item, managing distributed stages of authentication, appraisal, and safekeeping of the collateral item, monitoring terms of the loan, and detecting an unlocking event of the loan for unlocking the collateral token.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: VERONA HOLDINGS SEZC
    Inventors: Lukasz Jakub Sliwka, Jonathan Yantis, William Edward Quigley
  • Patent number: 12243032
    Abstract: A method includes determining, by a digital asset custodial device, to assign conditional access rights to an amount of assignable tokens stored in a digital asset custodial device account of the digital asset custodial device to a network computing device of a cryptocurrency payment system to back certain interactions of the cryptocurrency payment system. The conditional access rights are in accordance with a set of conditions. The assignment of the conditional access rights is a self-enforcing smart contract embedded in an assignable token distributed ledger. The method further includes locking, by the digital asset custodial device and in accordance with the self-enforcing smart contract, the amount of the assignable tokens stored in the digital asset custodial device account and providing the conditional access rights to the amount of the assignable tokens to the network computing device. The network computing device does not store the amount of the assignable tokens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Flexa Inc.
    Inventors: Trevor Filter, Zachary Kilgore, Robert Leshner, Tyler Robert Spalding
  • Patent number: 12236434
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing accurate images of cards. An application executing on a mobile device may receive authentication credentials for an account, determine a card associated with the account, and determine a card manufacturer identifier (CMID) of the card. The application may receive, from a digital asset management system based on the CMID, a plurality of metadata attributes of the card and one or more images of the card. The application may determine, based on the metadata attributes and attributes of the mobile device, a first orientation of the card to enable near-field communication (NFC) data transfer between the card and the mobile device. The application may select a first image of the card. The application may generate a graphical user interface (GUI) including the first image and an indication specifying to tap the card to the mobile device according to the first orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Rule, Colin Hart
  • Patent number: 12198111
    Abstract: Systems and methods disclosed herein include a mobile solution to enable users to perform financial transaction over a network using a mobile device. These techniques allow users to maintain a single personal account identifier or number (“PAN”) on the user's mobile device and to utilize it to access a plurality of linked financial accounts and sub-accounts. Any one of the accounts can be selected by a user on the mobile device to remotely deposit funds to that account based on an image of a financial payment instrument. The image can be obtained using image capture technology on the user's mobile device. Users can perform a financial transaction using the verified images over a network in order to conduct a remote financial transaction such as applying a deposit, a payment, or cash load to a designated account which is linked to the user's mobile account in real-time or near real-time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventor: Penny Diane Jurss
  • Patent number: 12165116
    Abstract: A method includes sending, by a trader computing device, an amount of a first digital asset to a digital asset exchange device for an exchange of the amount of the first digital asset to an amount of a second digital asset. The trader computing device includes a trader wallet that stores assignable tokens. The method further includes determining to assign conditional access rights to an amount of the assignable tokens to the digital asset exchange device to back the exchange, locking the amount of the assignable tokens, and providing the conditional access rights to the amount of the assignable tokens to the digital asset exchange device. The method further includes exchanging, by the digital asset exchange device, the amount of the first digital asset to the amount of the second digital asset and sending the amount of the second digital asset to the trader computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Flexa Inc.
    Inventors: Trevor Filter, Zachary Kilgore, Robert Leshner, Tyler Robert Spalding
  • Patent number: 12147970
    Abstract: Provided is an IC card (100) including a communication unit (102) that performs communication with an external device, a storage unit (104) that has tamper resistance, and that stores key information indicating a private key forming a pair with a public key or a seed value for generating the private key, and a processing unit (110) that, on the basis of object data to be recorded in a P2P database acquired from the external device by communication at the communication unit, and the private key corresponding to the key information, performs control to generate signature data corresponding to the object data, and transmits data including the generated signature data to the external device by communication at the communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshige Fukuhara, Tsutomu Nakatsuru, Masaki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 12125009
    Abstract: A system includes a customer database that stores user information regarding a plurality of customers; a network interface configured to communicate data over a network; and a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to: receive a first indication that a customer is within a first predetermined distance of an automated teller machine (ATM) drive-through area; transmit an authorization signal to the customer computing device configured to activate an ATM pre-stage function of an application implemented on the customer computing device to pre-stage an ATM transaction; receive a second indication that the customer is within a second predetermined distance of an ATM in the ATM drive-through area; transmit transaction information regarding the ATM transaction to the ATM; and authorize the ATM transaction at the ATM in an ATM drive-through area based on the transaction information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Miranda C. Hill, Alicia Y. Moore, Steven E. Puffer, Jerome Rhodes, Susan Symons, Michael R. Thomas, Young M. Yang
  • Patent number: 12112303
    Abstract: A method for processing a payment transaction via a proxy guarantor includes receiving a transaction request associated with a payment transaction for a transaction amount. The payment transaction is associated with a user, and the transaction request includes: payment device data associated with a payment device of the user, the payment device associated with a debit account, and guarantor data identifying a guarantor associated with a credit account. The method further includes communicating a hold request to an issuer system associated with the credit account to cause the issuer system associated with the credit account to place a hold on the credit account for at least a portion of the transaction amount, and communicating an authorization request to an issuer system associated with the debit account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Gaurav Srikant Mokhasi, Rohit Sukhija
  • Patent number: 12045879
    Abstract: The disclosed technology relates to assessing and securing credit risk using creditworthiness tokens issued in a blockchain network responsive to particular financial events. An exemplary blockchain node device may store an issuance smart contract associated with an identity and including a first wallet address and allocation parameters. An event query may be sent to an oracle device external to the blockchain network. The event query may include the identity. Event data associated with the identity may then be received from the oracle device in response to the event query. A number of creditworthiness tokens is determined based on an application of the allocation parameters to the event data. The determined number of creditworthiness tokens is then allocated to the identity via the first wallet address. Thereafter, the creditworthiness tokens can be transferred or collateralized, e.g., and can represent creditworthiness for the identity across financial institutions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Samuel Rapowitz, Kevin Osborn, Xiaoguang Zhu
  • Patent number: 11995545
    Abstract: A device receives information indicating first names and last names of individuals and applies different cursive fonts to each of the first names and the last names to generate images of different cursive first names and different cursive last names. The device applies different transformations to the images of the different cursive first names and the different cursive last names to generate a set of first name images and a set of last name images. The device combines each first name image with each last name image to form a set of signature images and trains a neural network model, with the set of signature images, to generate a trained neural network model. The device receives an image of a signature and processes the image of the signature, with the trained neural network model, to recognize a first name and a last name in the signature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Reza Farivar, Fardin Abdi Taghi Abad, Anh Truong, Mark Watson, Austin Walters, Jeremy Goodsitt, Vincent Pham
  • Patent number: 11893643
    Abstract: A system may include one or more sensors that acquire location information associated with the one or more sensors. The system may also include a processor that receives a first set of data comprising environmental information associated with a location, receives the location information from the one or more sensors, and determines whether a risk of damage to property associated with at least one of the one or more sensors is greater than a threshold based on the location information and the environmental information. When the risk is greater than the threshold, the processor may send a notification including the risk of damage to the property to a computing device that may provide an audio or visual indication of the notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Richard McAlister, Susan Dunham, Randall Yarbrough, Anthony Bishop
  • Patent number: 11887081
    Abstract: A method includes storing, by a first computing device, assignable tokens in a first partition of a plurality of partitions of a first address of a first digital asset unit and initiating an interaction with a second computing device including a second digital asset unit. The method further includes determining to assign conditional access rights to an amount of the assignable tokens to the second computing device for the interaction. The assignment of the conditional access rights is a smart contract. The method further includes locking, in accordance with the smart contract, the amount of the assignable tokens stored in the first partition, associating a second partition with the second digital asset unit, and associating the amount of the assignable tokens with the second partition. The second digital asset unit does not store the amount of the assignable tokens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Flexa Inc.
    Inventors: Trevor Filter, Zachary Kilgore, Robert Leshner, Tyler Robert Spalding
  • Patent number: 11869082
    Abstract: An apparatus, method, and non-transitory medium for betting on weather predictions are disclosed herein. A plurality of longitude and latitude coordinate pairs may be received from a remote device. The display device may render data on a graphical user interface representing a binary option based on whether a storm will make landfall within the certain radius. The display device may show a plurality of landfall probabilities on the map. A request to purchase the binary option may be received. It may be determined whether the landfall location corresponds to a zip code associated with the given longitude latitude pair in the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: CFPH, LLC
    Inventor: Rich Jaycobs