Patents Examined by Bennett M Sigmond
  • Patent number: 11188565
    Abstract: Systems and methods for constructing a scoring model and evaluating user credit. An example method for constructing a scoring model may comprise: collecting a plurality of sample datasets, each sample dataset comprising at least one characteristic variable and a corresponding characteristic value; for each characteristic variable, acquiring an interaction index of the characteristic variable with each of one or more other characteristic variables, and determining a clustering index of the characteristic variable according to the interaction indices; selecting a target characteristic variable from the at least one characteristic variable according to the clustering indices of the characteristic variables; dividing the plurality of sample datasets into a plurality of sample dataset subgroups according to the target characteristic variable and the corresponding characteristic value; and constructing a corresponding sub-scoring model for each of the sample dataset subgroups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: ADVANCED NEW TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xing Zhao
  • Patent number: 11182756
    Abstract: Provided, in an aspect, is a method for improved management of transaction data from a financial services computer network. The method includes receiving details for a first purchase, detecting that the first purchase is a trigger purchase, obtaining secondary details for the first purchase, receiving details for a later-made second purchase and additional purchases made between the first purchase and second purchase, and determining that the first purchase and the second purchase belong to the same experience set and that the additional intervening purchases do not belong to the same experience set as the first purchase and the second purchase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Colin Hart, Jason Ji, Alexandra A. Colevas, Steven Quadros, Adnan Malik, Jared M. Alexander, Scott Golder, Allison Abbott, Matthew Horton, Emma Sagan, Kevan Emmott, Christine Ann Berglund
  • Patent number: 11176619
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program for presenting a tax interview in preparation for preparing a tax return and, more particularly, to an advanced tax interview engine that integrates with third-party data sources including social networking sites, professional networking sites, credit reports, data aggregators, and other sources so as to minimize the burden on a user. One or more profiles for the taxpayer are retrieved from their respective third-party data sources so as to pre-populate responses to the tax interview, present additional portions of the tax interview, or determine discrepancies with user-entered information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: HRB Innovations, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Ciaramitaro
  • Patent number: 11170362
    Abstract: The disclosed subject matter includes methods, systems, and networks for authentication based on physical characteristics of a mobile device. A computer-implemented method performed by a payment network includes receiving an image of a part of a mobile device from an image capturing device that communicates with the payment network, wherein the mobile device includes digital card data of a customer. The computer-implemented method may also include comparing a physical condition of the part of the mobile device shown in the received image to the physical condition of the part of the mobile device shown in a stored image. In addition, the computer-implemented method may include authenticating or declining a transaction involving the digital card data based on the comparison of the physical condition of the part of the mobile device in the received image and the stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Mastercard International Incorporated
    Inventors: Archit Umrao, Shubham Kumar, Shubhangi Sengar, Rahul Lamba, Anurag Aggarwal, Aditya Koduri, Deepak Agarwal, Rajesh Chopra
  • Patent number: 11170446
    Abstract: Methods and systems for communicating data with an electric vehicle are disclosed. According to some aspects, insurance risk related data associated with use of the electric vehicle may be collected and stored in one or more memories included in the electric vehicle. When the electric vehicle is connected to an electrical grid for charging a battery included in the electric vehicle, in some implementations, a power-line communication unit may transmit the insurance risk related data over the electrical grid to one or more remote computer systems. The insurance risk related data may be used by an insurer to calculate insurance rating data so that an insurance premium (or rate, discount, usage-based insurance, etc.) associated with the electric vehicle and/or its driver can be adjusted to more accurately reflect a risk of recognizable loss. The insurance risk data may be related to driving or driving behavior, and/or vehicle operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventor: David W. Thurber
  • Patent number: 11164255
    Abstract: Methods and systems for automatically generating a financial market snapshot are disclosed. A plurality of financial market data elements from a plurality of sources are received. Respective workflows selected from a plurality of workflows in the at least one memory are determined, each respective workflow being selected for processing a separate one of the plurality of financial market data elements. A plurality of dependencies linking the respective workflows with one another are determined, each dependency comprising at least one dependency condition. In response to at least one dependency condition being met, at least one of the respective workflows is linked to the at least one dependency for which the at least one dependency condition is met. The financial market snapshot is generated as a result of the processing of the at least one respective workflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: XIGNITE, INC.
    Inventors: Qin Yu, Homi Chothia, Albert Shih-Po Chang
  • Patent number: 11138676
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for collecting tax data for an electronic tax return preparation program includes a tax logic agent reading a user data profile indexed to a user ID for a user to identify an identifier of a missing datum. The method also includes a match system identifying a data source corresponding to the identifier of the missing datum. The method further includes the match system generating a partition for the user data profile. Moreover, the method includes a dispatch system generating a target queue for the data source using the partition. The target queue includes the identifier of the missing datum. In addition, the method includes a data collector querying the data source based on the target queue to collect data corresponding to the identifier of the missing datum. The method also includes an importer generating a modified user data profile using the collected data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: INTUIT INC.
    Inventors: Gang Wang, Paul Hsu, Kevin M. McCluskey, Alex G. Balazs, Varun Krishna
  • Patent number: 11138665
    Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, and computer readable storage media are described and disclosed. An example method includes depicting a strategy node in a graphical user interface presented by a computing device. The strategy node represents a trading strategy associated with two or more tradeable objects. The example method includes generating a graphical connector between the strategy node and one of a plurality of contract nodes including at least a first contract node and a second contract node. Each contract node represents a contract associated with one of the tradeable objects. The example method includes repositioning, in response to an input received via the graphical interface, an endpoint of the graphical connector from the first contract node specified by the trading strategy to the second contract node. The example method also includes generating an updated trading strategy based on the trading strategy and the second contract node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Trading Technologies International, Inc.
    Inventor: Scott F. Singer
  • Patent number: 11138670
    Abstract: An insurance verification system and methods for verifying insurance information are provided. The insurance verification system includes an insurance verification (IV) device. The IV computing device includes including a processor and a memory in communication with the processor. The processor is programmed to receive vehicle user information from a client device, generate an insurance information request including at least a portion of the vehicle user information, transmit the insurance information request to at least one insurance provider computing device, and receive a response from the insurance provider computing device. The response indicates whether or not an insurance profile associated with the vehicle user information is stored at the insurance provider computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: MNJ TECH LLC
    Inventors: Michael E. Slater, Sr., Carl J. Andrews, Narendra Dukkipati
  • Patent number: 11132670
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for performing payment transactions using indicia-based associations between two or more user interfaces. One method includes: receiving transaction information related to a user's selection of goods or services from a merchant; generating an indicia encoding the transaction information related to the selected goods or services, the merchant, and the transaction amount; transmitting the indicia to be displayed, and to enable a user interface of a first user device to scan the indicia and extract the transaction information; receiving from the first user device, an authorization to process the payment transaction using a mobile payment source; and if sufficient resources exist in the mobile payment source: generating and transmitting a low value token to the merchant indicating the authorization of the payment transaction, wherein the low value token conceals the information related to the mobile payment source; and processing the transaction using the mobile payment source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Worldpay, LLC
    Inventor: David Tarbox
  • Patent number: 11132671
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to user authentication using a contactless payment instrument. The contactless payment instrument includes a contactless chip and a gesture control module. The user makes one or more gestures at an access device during a card-present transaction scenario and the gestures are validated and the authentication status is determined by matching the gesture made by the user at the time of the transaction with one or more predefined gestures. If the authentication is successful, the payment instrument transmits the payment information required for conducting the transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Vinod Kumar Pinniboyina, Habeeb Shaik Khadar, Mohan Babu Nellore
  • Patent number: 11126980
    Abstract: Systems and methods for token linking and unlinking in digital wallets are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for token linking in digital wallets may include: an issuer wallet application executed by the information processing device requesting, from a token vault, an identification of a customer's accounts that are eligible for push-provisioning to a third party wallet application executed by the information processing device; receiving the identification of customer accounts from the token vault; identifying accounts provisioned in the third party wallet application; determining accounts from the customer accounts that have not been provisioned to the third party wallet application to provision to the third party wallet application; provisioning the determined accounts to the third party wallet application; and requesting the token vault link a token associated with the provisioned account to an issuer wallet associated with the issuer wallet application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
    Inventors: Tuan Dao, Gayathri Sundar, Aditya Chebiyyam, Rajitha Dissanayake, Yunchul Bryan Jeon
  • Patent number: 11100509
    Abstract: Systems and methods for authentication and authorization using physical computing cards include receiving from the physical computing card an authorization request, where the request includes a card identifier and an entity location. Authorized users associated with the card identifier are determined. Identifications of users with pending transactions at the entity location are obtained. Verification is performed by determining that there is a match between an identification of a user to an identification of one of the authorized users. The user is then authorized to access resources associated with the physical computing card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventor: Jigar Rajnikant Gosalia
  • Patent number: 11100514
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and cards utilized for an authentication protection layer for payment card transactions are provided. Aspects include receiving, by a transaction processing terminal, the card for the potential transaction. Obtaining card holder information for the card and transmitting a radio frequency (RF) signal and receiving RFID data from an RFID tag associated with the card. Comparing, by a processor, the card holder information to the RFID data to determine whether to authorize the potential card transaction and authorizing the potential card transaction based at least on a determination that the RFID data corresponds to the card holder information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: John R. Dangler, Layne Berge, Jason J. Bjorgaard, Thomas Liang, Manuel Orozco, Matthew Doyle
  • Patent number: 11100473
    Abstract: The present specification relates to a mobile payment method, device, and system. One example method includes enabling, by the payee device, a device authorization function using a third-party server; receiving, by the payee device, identity authentication information from a payor device, wherein the identity authentication information includes an identifier of the payor device, and wherein the payor device does not have a payment application (APP) installed; forwarding, by the payee device, the received identity authentication information to the third-party server; receiving, by the payee device, token information from the third-party server, wherein the token information corresponds to the identifier; receiving, by the payee device, a payment request from the payor device, wherein the payment request includes the identifier of the payor device and the generated token; and sending, by the payee device, payment information including the generated token and the to the third-party server for verification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuanbo Sun
  • Patent number: 11100586
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for pricing a callable instrument. A plurality of corresponding pairs of Brownian motion paths and index value paths are determined corresponding to a set of dates. A deep neural network (DNN) of a backward DNN solver is trained until a convergence requirement is satisfied by for each pair of corresponding Brownian motion path and index value path, using the backward DNN solver to determine by iterating in reverse time order from a final discounted option payoff to an initial value. A statistical measure of spread of a set of initial values is determined and parameters of the DNN are modified based on the statistical measures of spread. Pricing information is determined by the backward DNN solver and provided such that a representation thereof is provided via an interactive user interface of a user computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Haojie Wang, Han Chen, Agus Sudjianto, Richard Liu, Qi Shen
  • Patent number: 11100474
    Abstract: The present specification relates to a mobile payment method, device, and system. One example method includes enabling, by the payee device, a device authorization function using a third-party server; receiving, by the payee device, identity authentication information from a payor device, wherein the identity authentication information includes an identifier of the payor device, and wherein the payor device does not have a payment application (APP) installed; forwarding, by the payee device, the received identity authentication information to the third-party server; receiving, by the payee device, token information from the third-party server, wherein the token information corresponds to the identifier; receiving, by the payee device, a payment request from the payor device, wherein the payment request includes the identifier of the payor device and the generated token; and sending, by the payee device, payment information including the generated token and the to the third-party server for verification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuanbo Sun
  • Patent number: 11094017
    Abstract: A method implemented on an augmented reality (AR) device includes accessing a user's investment strategy and selecting a material object. The material object and investment controls are displayed on a display screen of the AR device. The user alters the investment strategy using the investment controls. Alternative replacement objects are generated based on changes that the user makes to his or her investment strategy. One or more replacement objects are projected onto the display to represent an alternative material object that the user can afford based on the changed investment strategy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventor: Chris Kalaboukis
  • Patent number: 11093925
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for use in imposing chargeback probability scores on network transactions. One exemplary method includes obtaining at least one transaction detail of a network transaction between a consumer and a merchant. A computing device determines a chargeback probability score for the network transaction based, at least in part, on the at least one transaction detail. Chargeback data is transmitted to an entity associated with the network transaction, where the chargeback data includes at least one of (a) the chargeback probability score and (b) an indicator that the chargeback probability score fails to satisfy one or more thresholds, thereby permitting the entity to hold and/or decline the network transaction when the chargeback probability score fails to satisfy one or more thresholds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Anthony Hayes, Saurabh Mehta
  • Patent number: 11074584
    Abstract: A method includes a marketplace server establishing one or more security parameters for an exchange item and securely providing the one or more security parameters to a user computing device of the data communication system. When the user computing device desires to use the exchange item, the method further includes generating, by the user computing device, first dynamically secure exchange item data. The method further includes the marketplace server receiving the first dynamically secure exchange item data from the user computing device, generating second dynamically secure exchange item data, and comparing the first dynamically secure exchange item data with the second dynamically secure exchange item data. When the first dynamically secure exchange item data substantially matches the second dynamically secure exchange item data, the method further includes authorizing, by the marketplace server, the use of the exchange item by the user computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: RAISE MARKETPLACE, LLC
    Inventors: David S. McGregor, Frank Zhengfan Yang