Patents Examined by Benjamin S Brindley
  • Patent number: 12165146
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for managing a merchant's set of terms and conditions that are applicable to a payment vehicle transaction. When a chargeback for the payment vehicle transaction is initiated and disputed, the applicable set of terms and conditions can be transmitted to an issuer financial institution on behalf of the merchant as part of the dispute process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Worldpay, LLC
    Inventors: Stefan K. Karaivanov, Thomas E. Rafferty
  • Patent number: 12118562
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to a computer system associated with a first user identity and a user interface for configuring an account for use by one or more devices associated with a second user identity. The user interface includes a control for selecting between a first account option that enables transfers between the account and only a first set of user accounts and a second account option that enables transfers between the account and a second set of user accounts, the second set of user accounts including the first set of user accounts and one or more additional user accounts associated with additional users. In response to receiving a request to configure the account, the account is configured with the first account option when the first account option is selected and the account is configured with the second account option when the second account option is selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Mischa McLachlan
  • Patent number: 12069059
    Abstract: The mobile device stores a plurality of communication profiles comprising one or more local communication profiles and a global communication profile. The mobile device determines local access requirements for connecting to a local cellular network operator and determines whether the plurality of communication profiles comprises a local communication profile that satisfies the local access requirements. When the plurality of communication profiles does not comprise a local communication profile that satisfies the local access requirements: the mobile device connects to a global cellular network operator using the global communication profile; receives, from the global cellular network operator, a new local communication profile that satisfies the local access requirements and connects to the local cellular network operator using the new local communication profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: 7-TEL, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard H. Xu, Xiaolei Qin, Phillip C. Krasko, Douglas A Cheline
  • Patent number: 12062025
    Abstract: The described financial institution computing system provides services to customers through an application programming interface (“API”). The services include user identification services to customers and payment services that allow users to pay the customers via the financial institution. The user identification services allow the customers to verify the identity of users as non-fraudulent users. Further the user identification services allow the financial institution to provide known user information to the customers for purposes of prepopulating registration forms, completing transactions, and the like. Further services, such as user account validation services, payment services, and the like are also possible through the financial institution APIs. In some situations, users are registered with the financial institution. For example, a user may also be an account holder with the financial institution. In other situations, the users are not registered with the financial institution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Bipin M. Sahni, Nikolai Stroke
  • Patent number: 12026774
    Abstract: A system and method operates a family of exchange traded funds or mutual funds with different weighted average maturities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: CHARLES SCHWAB & CO., INC.
    Inventors: Walter W. Bettinger, II, Marie A. Chandoha, Jonathan De St Paer
  • Patent number: 12014427
    Abstract: An apparatus for customization and utilization of target profiles, the apparatus comprising: a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the processor, the memory containing instructions configuring the processor to receive a data set comprising a plurality of target data, determine a validity status of the plurality of target data within the data set, modify the data set as a function of the validity status, determine one or more protection gaps within the modified data set using a gap finder module, generate one or more target profiles as function of the modified data set, the one or more protection gaps, and a user input, and modify a graphical user interface as a function of one or more target profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Inventor: Jason Arriaga
  • Patent number: 12002099
    Abstract: Methods and systems for developing profitable convertible term products are disclosed. The methods include the disaggregation of the pricing of existing term products and the use of big data analytics to identify opportunities to improve the acceptance of the product within a particular share of the market. Then, a pricing model and a selling model are built to test the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company
    Inventors: Gareth Ross, Tricia Walker
  • Patent number: 11869076
    Abstract: Techniques are described for reducing the number of transactions required to perform operations for services that support many-to-many relationships between entities. A one-to-many operation that involves an entity of a first type and multiple entities of a second type may be performed in two asynchronous phases: a one-to-intermediary phase and an intermediary-to-many phase. During the one-to-intermediary phase, a single transaction is performed between the entity of the first type and an intermediary. During the intermediary-to-many phase, a distinct transaction is performed between the intermediary and each of the entities of the second type that are involved in the one-to-many operation. The transaction performed for a particular entity of the second type during the intermediary-to-many phase may aggregate all changes that affect the particular entity, thereby significantly reducing the number of transactions performed by the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: LENDINGCLUB BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
    Inventor: Shanmughavadivelu Gopalakrishna
  • Patent number: 11810196
    Abstract: A computer-assisted method for providing re-quotations for insurance coverage may include receiving a list of insurance leads corresponding to individuals who received a previous quotation for insurance coverage but did not purchase the insurance coverage and identifying a difference between the previous quotation and a new quotation. This difference may include an increase in offered insurance coverage and/or a reduction in cost. A computing device may calculate a probability for each of the individuals on the list using a regression model based, at least in part, on the identified difference. In some cases, the regression model may be associated with individual states. In other cases, the regression model may correspond to a plurality of states. The regression model may output a probability that a resident of a particular state will purchase insurance in response to a re-quotation for insurance coverage, where individuals may then be ranked based on the probability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Allstate Insurance Company
    Inventors: Alexander Doyle, Ryan Dunn, Cristina I. Gheorghe, Eric Huls, Michael A. Lavigne, David MacInnis, Christopher Joseph DeCleene
  • Patent number: 11763394
    Abstract: Method and system for buying and selling property tax liens and determining a property tax lien fair secondary market price are disclosed. The system comprises a terminal used to input parameters related to tax lien, a central processing computer calculating tax lien value and applying method based on system parameters and parameters inputted by remote system users, and an interface used to present the determined tax lien value to the users, register a trade of tax lien or a fraction of tax lien, manage or liquidate a property backing the tax lien. In different countries, tax liens or instruments using similar principals are known by different names, including tax deeds, redeemable tax deeds, delinquent property tax certificates, property tax sale certificates, and others. All such instruments are commonly referred to herein as tax liens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Inventor: Victor Vilmont
  • Patent number: 11715102
    Abstract: A first device may receive, from a second device, a request to approve a transaction wherein the request includes transaction data related to the transaction and an image of a signature of an individual that submitted the request. The first device may determine, after receiving the request, a priority level associated with the transaction based on the transaction data. The first device may process the image of the signature using a computer vision technique and/or a vector-based technique. The first device may select, from a memory storing a plurality of comparator signatures, a comparator signature for the signature based on the priority level. The first device may use the comparator signature to verify the signature to approve or deny the transaction. The first device may perform a comparison of the comparator signature and the signature in the image after processing the image and selecting the comparator signature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Joshua Edwards, Michael Mossoba, Abdelkader M'Hamed Benkreira
  • Patent number: 11538110
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for administering and/or managing an employer sponsored retirement plan such as a 401(k) plan can include a host system that supports a graphical user interface (GUI) that is displayable to a user communicating with the host system via a user computer device. The use can manipulate one or more input devices connected to the user's computer device for facilitating the communication of data to the host system and updating of displays of the GUI. The GUI can be configured to permit employee participants to enroll and manage their retirement accounts. The GUI can also be configured for employers that sponsor a retirement plan to communicate with the host system to manage their retirement plan and oversee administration of the plan. Displays of the GUI can be generated and updated by a user computer device display based on communications with the host system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Matt Dahm, Sherri Painter, Anna C. Shade, Elizabeth Read Arnold Spenko, Ryan Edward Sievert, Jordi Parra Ferrero, Maria Julia Da Silva Benini, Momo Miyazaki, Simon King, Rebecca Marie Hornbuckle, Burton Michael Rast, Mary Beth Foyder
  • Patent number: 11488164
    Abstract: When a payment transaction made by a user, a reminder data file is created including reminder items associated with the payment transaction. At least one of the reminder items is an image. Subsequently, a transaction statement listing one or more payment transactions is provided to the user, in a form in which each listed payment transaction is associated with an embedded link to the corresponding reminder data file, which permits the user to access the reminder data file. Thus, a user who is unable to recognize a payment transaction on the transaction statement, can use the statement to access the corresponding reminder items, to provide the user with a reminder of the details of the transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Ashutosh Kumar Gupta, Tanika Gupta, Anshul Pandey
  • Patent number: 11455628
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for facilitating network transactions based on user authentication. One exemplary method includes, for a network transaction, receiving, at a card device, an authentication command from an issuer of a payment account associated with the card device. A user of the card device is instructed, at an indicator of the card device, to provide a biometric for use in authenticating the user. Biometric data from the user is captured at biometric sensor of the card device, when the user provides the biometric, and the captured biometric data is compared with reference biometric data stored in a memory of the card device. The card device then returns a command reply to the issuer, where the command reply includes an authentication result based on the comparison, thereby permitting the issuer to employ the authentication result of the user in connection with the network transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Rajat Maheshwari, Prashant Sharma
  • Patent number: 11449868
    Abstract: A system is provided for voice activated remittances. The system may perform operations that include receiving at least one audio stream corresponding to a real-time voice communication between a first user and a second user and identifying, based on the at least one audio stream, a set of words. The operation may also include determining that the set of words indicates a desired payment transaction between the first user and the second user and determining a payment amount to be remitted from the first user to the second user. Further the operations may include causing the payment amount to be remitted from a first financial account corresponding to the first user to a second financial account corresponding to the second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Todd Studnicka, Adhish Vyas
  • Patent number: 11436685
    Abstract: Methods and systems for determining fault for an accident involving a vehicle having one or more autonomous (and/or semi-autonomous) operation features and paying claims associated with such accidents are provided. According to certain aspects, operating data from sensors within or near the vehicle may be used to determine the occurrence of a vehicle accident, such as a collision. The operating data may further be used to determine an allocation of fault for the accident between a vehicle operator, the autonomous operation features, or a third party. The allocation of fault may be used to further determine and make claims payments related to the accident. In some embodiments, claims may be rejected based upon the operating data and determined allocation of fault.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Blake Konrardy, Scott T. Christensen, Gregory Hayward, Scott Farris
  • Patent number: 11403605
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and program products for providing and administering a digital asset network of cooperative nodes with rapid transaction settlements are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: AI COIN INC.
    Inventor: Stephen Lester Reed
  • Patent number: 11366816
    Abstract: Provided herein are various exemplary systems and methods for secure intelligent networked systems including a random combination generator, a master cloud server communicatively coupled to the random combination generator, the master cloud server having an interactive graphical user interface configured to receive user commands for generating a plurality of virtual machines, the master cloud server automatically identifying an idle virtual machine in the plurality of virtual machines and automatically utilizing the idle virtual machine, and a selected strategy server communicatively couple to the master cloud server, the master cloud server automatically generating decoy first digital data elements interspersed with selected first digital data elements and automatically transmitting the selected first digital data elements interspersed with the decoy first digital data elements to the selected strategy server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Capitalogix IP Owner, LLC
    Inventors: Howard M. Getson, Ben Getson, Sean Vallie, Ryan Echternacht
  • Patent number: 11354648
    Abstract: A transaction card receives sound waves that represent a user command, where the user command identifies one or more transaction restrictions of the transaction card. The transaction card converts the sound waves to a digital signal and identifies, based on an analysis of the digital signal, user command data that identifies the user command. The transaction card sets, based on identifying the user command data, one or more transaction restriction values for the one or more transaction restrictions. The transaction card receives transaction metadata associated with a transaction and determines whether the transaction is compliant with the one or more transaction restrictions. The transaction card causes, based on determining whether the transaction is compliant with the one or more transaction restrictions, the transaction to be processed by a server device, or to be declined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Rajko Ilincic, Sarah J. Cunningham, James Zarakas, William F. Carroll, George Bergeron
  • Patent number: 11328359
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for administering and/or managing an employer sponsored retirement plan such as a 401(k) plan can include a host system that supports a graphical user interface (GUI) that is displayable to a user communicating with the host system via a user computer device. The use can manipulate one or more input devices connected to the user's computer device for facilitating the communication of data to the host system and updating of displays of the GUI. The GUI can be configured to permit employee participants to enroll and manage their retirement accounts. The GUI can also be configured for employers that sponsor a retirement plan to communicate with the host system to manage their retirement plan and oversee administration of the plan. Displays of the GUI can be generated and updated by a user computer device display based on communications with the host system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Matt Dahm, Sherri Painter, Anna C. Shade, Elizabeth Read Arnold Spenko, Ryan Edward Sievert, Jordi Parra Ferrero, Maria Julia Da Silva Benini, Momo Miyazaki, Simon King, Rebecca Marie Hornbuckle, Burton Michael Rast, Mary Beth Foyder