Patents Examined by Christopher Bridges
  • Patent number: 11222321
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for verifying a user, through an account associated with the user, in connection with a subscription of the user to a service from a service provider. One exemplary system includes a memory having an account for the user, and a platform computing device coupled to and/or including the memory. The computing device is configured to receive a request from the service provider, in connection with the user subscribing to the service, and authenticate the user. When the user is authenticated, the computing device is configured to generate a subscription message for the user comprising assurance data based on the user's account, a timestamp, and an identifier associated with the user, and transmit the subscription message to the service provider, to thereby permit the service provider to rely on the assurance data to verify the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Manoneet Kohli
  • Patent number: 11222388
    Abstract: A method and system, the method including capturing country-specific parameters of a risk-exposed country relating to stored predefined criteria, assigning one or more disaster event types to a disaster history table, capturing and storing mapping parameters for a geographic risk map, assigning each of a plurality of selectable disaster financing types to a definable cost factor capturing the capital cost of the disaster financing type in relation to its application for disaster mitigation, determining expected catastrophe losses by a loss frequency function and the geographic risk map for various scenarios of occurring natural disaster event types, and preparing a forecast of an effect of the disaster financing type to cover the catastrophe losses based on the coverage structure, the assigned cost factors, and the determined expected catastrophe losses
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Swiss Reinsurance Company Ltd.
    Inventors: David Baumgartner, Nikhil Da Victoria Lobo, Bridget Carle
  • Patent number: 11222350
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and devices for processing a service, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media are provided. One of the methods includes: receiving an application sent from a user terminal of a first user comprising a commitment; verifying a credit value of the first user; in response to the credit value reaching a predetermined credit value, accepting the application of the first user; and in response to the first user failing to fulfill the commitment, triggering a balance compensation process to cause the first user to send a balance resource to the second user by a deadline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: ADVANCED NEW TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fengwei Wang, Huimei He, Yu Qu
  • Patent number: 11222320
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for controlling a function of an automated transaction machine (ATM). An example method includes receiving, by query language processing (QLP) circuitry, a query command signal. The example method further includes generating, by the QLP circuitry based on the query command signal, a control signal configured to instruct the ATM to perform the function by crawling a tree-structured menu of the ATM. Subsequently, the example method includes transmitting, by the QLP circuitry to the ATM, the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.
    Inventor: Masoud Vakili
  • Patent number: 11216801
    Abstract: A voice controlled (VC) system for onboarding users and exchanging data in real-time over a network is provided. The VC system includes at least one data controller (DC) computing device in communication with at least one voice controlled (VC) computing device. The DC computing device is configured to receive transaction data and voice controlled (VC) data, parse the transaction data and the VC data, and perform a look up in a database using the parsed transaction data and VC data. The VC system is also configured to compare the transaction data and the VC data to stored data, and verify the transaction data and the VC data by matching the transaction data and the VC data to the stored data. The VC system is further configured to generate a message based on the matched data, and transmit the message to a merchant associated with the verified data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Ninju Bohra, Matthew S. Smith, Jacqueline Suzanne Welsh-Holder, Anthony Walker, Moon Seon Ok
  • Patent number: 11216871
    Abstract: Embodiments herein provide for performing an automated transaction. A request for funding is received. A request processing is performed in response to said request. The request processing comprises routing said request to a approval unit, determining by said approval unit that said funding is authorized, and determining that sufficient amount of funds are available for providing said funding. The funding is either approved or denied said funding based upon said request processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: INSPERITY SERVICES, L.P.
    Inventors: Mark Breuer, Michelle Harold, John F. Tangredi
  • Patent number: 11216884
    Abstract: A live video of a negotiable instrument may be provided to a financial institution so that an image of the negotiable instrument may be obtained from the live video, processed, and funds associated with the negotiable instrument may be deposited in an account of a user. The user may be identified and authenticated to the financial institution by one or more biometric characteristics. One or more biometric characteristics may be used to endorse the negotiable instrument. A holder may be used to hold the negotiable instrument while live video is being taken and provided from a user to a financial institution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION (USAA)
    Inventor: Andre Rene Buentello
  • Patent number: 11216874
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention, an automated computer implemented system aggregates foreign exchange data and graphically represents a change in spread. The system comprises a computer processor coupled to a storage mechanism, an aggregator server, an orders server and an interactive user interface. The computer processor is programmed to: aggregate data from a plurality of market data sources representing a plurality of different underlying markets; generate an amount view, based on the aggregated data, that illustrates smart liquidity with respect to a moving average based on a predetermined time period plus two standard deviations; and provide, via the interactive user interface, an interactive amount view with a slope that represents a change in spread between a bid and an offer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Richard C. James, Robert Hare, Sam Hampton
  • Patent number: 11216815
    Abstract: A method comprising creating, by a computer-based system for shifting financial responsibility for a transaction from a merchant to a transaction account issuer, a digital wallet associated with a transaction account holder, wherein the digital wallet comprises one or more attributes associated with the transaction account holder, confirming, by the computer-based system, the attribute in response to a transaction request, and/or determining, by the computer-based system, whether to shift financial responsibility for the transaction from the merchant to the transaction account issuer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Clinton R. Allen, Dewi J. Apun, Christopher J. Fletcher, Jeffrey Fromm, Ashish Gupta, Alois T. Stock, Angee Stonehouse
  • Patent number: 11205168
    Abstract: A method and system for improving a frictionless authorization process is provided. The method includes first detecting a mobile device of a first user at first micro locations within a retail entity. Additionally, the mobile device is additionally detected entering a first check out lane of the retail entity for purchase of first items from the retail entity. The user is authorized for purchase of the first items from the retail entity and attributes associated with the previous detections with respect to the authorization are analyzed. Resulting future authorization attributes for authorizing the mobile device for future purchases of items from the retail entity are determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Lindsay Herbert
  • Patent number: 11205180
    Abstract: A device may obtain a notification that a transaction occurred, where the transaction is associated with a financial account of a user, and a merchant. The device may determine that the merchant is associated with providing confirmation messages for transactions, and may process, based on determining that the merchant is associated with providing confirmation messages, one or more messages in a messaging account associated with the user to determine whether the messaging account includes a confirmation message associated with the transaction. The device may determine that the messaging account does not include any confirmation message associated with the transaction, may determine a likelihood that the transaction was unauthorized based on the messaging account not including a confirmation message, and may perform an action associated with the financial account of the user based on the likelihood that the transaction was unauthorized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Mossoba, Joshua Edwards, Abdelkadar M'Hamed Benkreira
  • Patent number: 11195175
    Abstract: A approach is proposed to support typed payment graph-based electronic payment processing. First, schemas for one or more typed payment graphs used for a plurality types of electronic payment processing are defined declaratively. Upon receiving an electronic payment request from a client, a payment processing engine retrieves a schema of a typed payment graph corresponding to the request and processes the electronic payment by traversing states and edges in an instance created from the schema of the typed payment graph. The electronic payment only transitions from one state to another if a valid edge exists between them and a precondition on the edge is met by the processing results of the electronic payment at the state. While processing the electronic payment, the payment processing engine automatically generates an audit trail for the electronic payment based on its states and transitions for real time recovery and/or analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: WEPAY, INC.
    Inventor: Raymond Ng
  • Patent number: 11195155
    Abstract: A computing system can facilitate cross-medium transactions through exchanges without having dependency on exchange computer infrastructure, which when down, can cause open transactions to fail. In response to detecting a downed exchange, the system can execute a failover state to facilitate any transactions initially reliant upon the downed exchange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Ripple Labs Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Garay, Matthew Phinney, Ivan Malygin, Barathkumar Sundaravaradan, David Opler
  • Patent number: 11182853
    Abstract: The state of a trade order may be defined and/or maintained in response to user action at a trading device. A trading device may receive a user action on a graphical user interface (GUI). The user action may cause the submission of the trade order to the electronic exchange. The trading device may receive a user action on the GUI to define an active order state. The trading device may maintain the order state until receiving an identified user action on the GUI to change the order state to inactive, which may cause the trade order to be canceled or held at the electronic exchange. The user action causing the change in the order state may be an active use action, such as a selection, or a passive user action, such as a failure to perform a selection. Such user action may encourage user attention when managing trade orders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Trading Technologies International, Inc.
    Inventor: Scott F. Singer
  • Patent number: 11182771
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to using a near-filed communication (NFC) contactless card to perform one or more transactions within a vehicle. For example, a user may load value (money, funds, digital currency, etc.) onto an in-vehicle device (transponder, badge, card, etc.) by performing one-tap authentication or one-tap payment, or both, via the contactless card. Thus, even under time-constrained circumstances, payment may be loaded to the in-vehicle device in a quick, efficient, and safe manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Rule, Rajko Ilincic
  • Patent number: 11176613
    Abstract: The technology performs obligations fulfillment monitoring. An input data stream of data messages is received including transaction data and reference data, obligation control logic, and a set of obligation parameters associated with the obligation control logic. An event data processor processes the input data stream using a current version of the obligation control logic and the set of obligation parameters. Subsequently, the event processor receives information to implement and execute obligation control logic that is dynamically-modified and different from the current version of the obligation control logic. The event processor generates and outputs an obligation fulfillment message based on the dynamically-modified obligation logic and transmits to an interested entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Nasdaq Technology AB
    Inventors: Robert Schulz, Max Roy Prakoso
  • Patent number: 11176620
    Abstract: Computer-implemented systems, methods and articles for generating an error report listing errors identified in the computerized preparation of a payroll tax form. The system includes a computing device, a data store, and a payroll tax form software application executable by the computing device. The payroll tax form software includes a payroll calculation engine, an error check engine, and one or more error graph(s). Each error graph includes a plurality of interconnected nodes configured to utilize tax data and calculated payroll data to identify errors. The calculation engine is configured to read tax data from the shared data store, perform payroll calculation operations, and write calculated payroll data to the shared data store. The error check engine is configured to read the tax data and payroll data and process the error graph(s) to identify errors and generate an error report listing the errors and/or explanations of the errors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: INTUIT INC.
    Inventors: Peter E. Lubczynski, Gang Wang, Paul A. Parks, Kevin M. McCluskey, Ernest Montoya, David A. Hanekamp, Jr., Kyle J. Ryan
  • Patent number: 11176543
    Abstract: The invention provides systems, methods and computer program products for secure electronic payment transactions based on voice generated currency tokens. The invention comprises implementing at a voice currency platform server, the steps of (i) receiving from a payor terminal device a request for generation of a voice currency token, (ii) performing voice based biometric authentication by matching the voice data received from the payor terminal device against one or more voice based biometric templates associated with the payor voice currency platform account, (iii) performing speech analysis to extract at least the currency amount identified within the voice data received from the payor terminal device and (iv) generating an encrypted voice currency token.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Mastercard International Incorporated
    Inventors: Harsh Piparsaniya, Sudhir Gupta, Rahul Agrawal
  • Patent number: 11170353
    Abstract: An automatic billing enrollment (ABE) computing device and methods for automatically enrolling a merchant in a bill paying application are provided. The ABE computing device receives a payment transaction associated with a cardholder account, identifies a merchant associated with the payment transaction, and determines whether the merchant is enrolled with a bill pay application associated with the cardholder account by performing a database lookup of enrolled merchants. The ABE computing device then transmits a message to a user device associated with the cardholder account indicating that the identified merchant is not enrolled by the cardholder with the bill pay application and includes an option for the cardholder to enroll the merchant. To enroll the merchant, the ABE computing device determines merchant-associated data elements required by the bill pay application to enroll the merchant, retrieves the data elements, and inputs the data elements into the bill pay application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Lakshmi Sushma Daggubati, Sri Chaitanya Sanaboina
  • Patent number: 11151568
    Abstract: A device may receive, from a server device, a real-time notification indicating that a field of a user account is being modified. The field may include personal information of a user associated with the user account and/or information identifying authorized users of the user account. The device may receive, from a user device, a request associated with a high-risk transaction involving the user account. The device may determine a risk score indicating a likelihood of the high-risk transaction being performed by an unauthorized user. The device may selectively identify an authentication procedure, of a group of authentication procedures, based on the risk score. The device may provide authentication instructions for the authentication procedure to the user device to allow the user device to perform the authentication procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Maria Bermudez-Cisneros, Darlene Schwartz, Michelle Kelo, Nicholas Flieg, Adam Rubin