Patents Examined by Clifford B Madamba
  • Patent number: 12112312
    Abstract: Provided herein are systems and methods for rapid activation of electronic payment devices with a mobile device. The method includes generating, with at least one processor, activation data corresponding to a non-activated electronic payment device issued to a user, storing, on an activation element associated with the electronic payment device, a unique identifier corresponding to the electronic payment device, receiving, with at least one processor, an activation request from a mobile device in response to the user scanning the activation element with the mobile device, the activation request comprising identification data associated with the user and the unique identifier, determining, with at least one processor, that the activation data matches the identification data, and, in response to determining that the activation data matches the identification data, activating the electronic payment device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Patrick Ryan Flanagan, Christopher Carlisle Weber
  • Patent number: 12112341
    Abstract: A method for tracking insured assets is provided. Asset identifiers corresponding to assets to be monitored are received from a user. Each of the one or more assets is attached to a tracking device. Monitored assets are covered by one or more insurance policies. One or more geofence regions are defined associated with the one or more monitored assets. A location of each of the monitored assets is estimated, at least periodically. In response to determining that the estimated location of at least one of the monitored assets is outside of the corresponding one or more geofence regions, an insurance policy associated with this at least one asset is determined. A policyholder associated with the insurance policy is notified by sending a notification to policyholder's-preferred device. The notification inquires instructions for remedial actions from the policyholder. One or more remedial actions are initiated based on received policyholder's instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association
    Inventors: David Patrick Dixon, Wayne Maurice Hartman, Gary Scott Harris
  • Patent number: 12106370
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses and article of manufactures for receiving a plurality of bids and offers for a binary options transaction. Each bid and offer comprises a quantity and a price. At least one rule is applied to the plurality of received bids and offers. At least one of the plurality of bids and offers is determined to be potentially manipulative. An alert that the at least one bid or offer is potentially manipulative is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: CFPH, LLC
    Inventors: Rich Jaycobs, Nolan Glantz, James Les Walker
  • Patent number: 12083815
    Abstract: The invention relates to a card, in particular a chip card, including a computing unit for managing electronic coin data records, the electronic coin data records being issued by a central entity, and a card body with visible data and at least one visible feature. The central entity is at the same time the issuer or administrator of a series of banknotes and the at least one visible feature identifies the card as part of the series of banknotes to an observer. In addition, a method for producing such a card is also proposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: GIESECKE+DEVRIENT ADVANCE52 GMBH
    Inventors: Cristina Fabian, Thorsten Sauer, Thomas Tarantino
  • Patent number: 12086881
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and article of manufactures for receiving a plurality of bids and offers for a binary options instrument. Each bid and offer comprises a quantity and a price. A subset of bids and offers from the plurality of received bids and offers is generated. At least one rule is applied to the subset of bids and offers to generate a reduced subset of bids and offers. A binary options index is computed from the reduced subset of bids and offers. A request for a binary options transaction that is based on the computer binary options index is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: CFPH, LLC
    Inventors: Rich Jaycobs, Nolan Glantz, James Les Walker
  • Patent number: 12051061
    Abstract: Provided is a method for operating a distributed database system having distributed node devices for providing interlinked data blocks, in particular in the style of a blockchain, that document transactions between subscribers, wherein transactions between subscribers are protected by transaction data and a cryptographic signature process, involves the cryptographic signature process being defined for each transaction in order to protect the respective transaction, wherein signature information identifying the defined cryptographic signature process is part of the transaction or part of a performance request for the transaction. For each transaction, signature data are then calculated using the defined cryptographic signature process for at least some of the transaction data or the hash value thereof, and the signature data are added to the transaction data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Markus Dichtl
  • Patent number: 12033211
    Abstract: A computer system accesses electronically stored data pertaining to a consumer's current and historical credit reports from a plurality of credit bureaus. Errors in the reports are identified by the computer system, which can then create dispute letters detailing the errors with text customized for each error. The computer processes the data to identify errors within a single report and between multiple reports, both current and historical. The errors can relate to multiple accounts on a given report duplicating the same debt with the same or differing status, and reports from different credit bureaus reporting the same debt with differing status. The status can include the debt being open or closed, and the date the status of the debt changed. The errors are presented on a display with which particular errors can be selected to be included in the report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Credit Versio LLC
    Inventors: David Bergida, Ari Gross
  • Patent number: 12020231
    Abstract: An email payment system and method to provide users with the ability to initiate and send payments to one more recipients via email messaging. A user interface is provided in an email client that allows a user to insert payment with the email. Payment details are collected through one or more payment modals displayed in the email client. A payment object is inserted into the body of the email and is displayed to both the sender and recipient. The payment details captured in the payment object are communicated to a payment processor. The payment processor uses electronic payment accounts associated with the corresponding sender and recipient email addresses to identify the relevant electronic payment accounts and transfer the payment between said accounts. A status of the payment transaction is tracked and displayed within the payment object of the entails residing in both the sender and recipient email client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Narelle Cozens, Travis Harrison Kroll Green, Boris Mizhen, Phillip Neal Sharp, Josh Ostrow, Hoai Nguyen, Peter Schmitt
  • Patent number: 12014338
    Abstract: A device for directly transmitting electronic coin data records to another device includes accessing data storage, such that an electronic coin data record is stored in the data storage; an interface at least for outputting the at least one electronic coin data record to the other device; and a computing unit configured to mask the electronic coin data record in the device by applying a homomorphic encryption function to the electronic coin data record to obtain a masked electronic coin data record for registering the masked electronic coin data record at a monitoring entity; and to output the electronic coin data record using the interface. A payment system has a monitoring layer including a database in which masked electronic coin data records are stored; and a direct transaction layer including at least two devices in which the method can be carried out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: GIESECKE+DEVRIENT ADVANCE52 GMBH
    Inventors: Florian Gawlas, Tilo Fritzhanns, Wolfram Seidemann, Verena Rapp, Maria Veleva
  • Patent number: 12002030
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and system which facilitates easy and smooth detection of available one or more Point-of-sale (POS) terminals automatically at a merchant's site when a user desires to use a user device in order to pay for services/goods availed by the user device. The present invention provides a scalable, easy to use, seamless, and an efficient method to detect the POS terminals over a Wi-Fi network available to the user equipment. Information corresponding to the detected and available POS terminals are presented on the user device so that the user may easily select an appropriate POS terminal and may initiate the further payment process. The one or more available POS terminals are detected by the user device with the help of a first server device and a second server device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: JIO PLATFORMS LIMITED
    Inventors: Ajay Kumar Gupta, Vishal Vasant Oak, Anish Shah, Rajeev Gupta
  • Patent number: 11989704
    Abstract: A sharded, permissioned, distributed ledger may reduce the amount of work and communication required by each participant, thus possibly avoiding scalability bottlenecks that may be inherent in previous distributed ledger implementations and possibly enabling the use of additional resources to translate to increased throughput. A sharded, permissioned, distributed ledger may be made up of multiple shards, each of which may also be a distributed ledger and which may operate in parallel. Participation within a sharded, permissioned, distributed ledger may be allowed only with permission of an authority. A sharded, permissioned, distributed ledger may include a plurality of nodes, each including a dispatcher configured to receive transaction requests from clients and to forward received requests to verifiers configured to append transactions to individual ones of the shards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Mark S. Moir, Harold Carr, Maurice P. Herlihy, Isaac Sheff
  • Patent number: 11978115
    Abstract: A method for transferring a credit rights certificate is provided, including: generating a target account address according to a debtor account address and a creditor account address in a credit rights certificate transfer request, the target account address being a temporary account address used for storing a credit rights certificate and based on a multi-digital-signature process; transferring a credit rights certificate corresponding to the credit rights certificate transfer request from the debtor account address to the target account address; and transferring the credit rights certificate from the target account address to the creditor account address based on a confirmation instruction from the creditor account address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Rui Guo, Yige Cai, Maocai Li, Qing Qin, Jianjun Zhang, Zongyou Wang, Zichao Tang, Qingzheng Shang, Chen Yang, Li Kong
  • Patent number: 11972405
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include systems and methods for executing a point of sale deposit. In one embodiment, a system may include one or more memory devices storing software instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the software instructions to receive deposit information related to a point of sale deposit from a mobile device, and generate a deposit token retaining at least the deposit information and deposit authorization information. The one or more processors may also be configured to transmit the deposit token to the mobile device for displaying a readable code generated based on the deposit token, receive a point of sale deposit authorization notification from the merchant device indicating at least receipt by the merchant device of the deposit token from the mobile device, and transfer funds to a financial service account based on the received deposit information and authorization notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventor: Dennis S. Brennan
  • Patent number: 11966970
    Abstract: An example method and system for income determination analysis is disclosed. A document packet of income related documents is converted to an image file. The image file is split into separate documents and the separated documents are classified. An automated scanning tool is selected for the separated documents. Income related data is determined from the separated documents. An interface may be generated based on the confidence of the determined income related data for operator input and validation of the income related data. Multiple models are applied for calculation of income. A virtual panel is provided that incorporates the results of the multiple models to determine if further analysis is required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: LOANCRAFT, LLC.
    Inventors: Ronald Frederick George, Anneliese Rossi
  • Patent number: 11941595
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include systems and methods for executing a point of sale deposit. In one embodiment, a system may include one or more memory devices storing software instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the software instructions to receive transaction information related to a point of sale deposit from a client device, and generate a pending deposit transaction based on the transaction information. The one or more processors may be further configured to execute the software instructions to receive a first transaction token from the client device, receive a second transaction token from a third-party device, match the first transaction token to the second transaction token, and complete the pending deposit transaction based on the match.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Dennis Brennan, Steven Potter, Jonathan Witter
  • Patent number: 11915216
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed embodying techniques directed to, in association with a transaction between a payor and a payee, determining a parameter associated with at least one of the payee, payor, or transaction. Methods and systems further include dynamically determining, based on the parameter, a customized transaction flow for the payee, wherein the customized transaction flow comprises a set of operations for completing the transaction. Method and systems are further directed to causing one or more user interfaces corresponding to one or more of the set of operations to be presented via a user device of the payor for execution of the set of operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Block, Inc.
    Inventor: Brian Grassadonia
  • Patent number: 11900366
    Abstract: A system and method for securing crypto-asset transactions. The method includes sharding a wallet private key such that each shard of the wallet private key is distributed to a different secure module; generating signatures by each of the different secure modules based on a respective shard of the sharded wallet private key and obtained trading platform credentials; and verifying the crypto-asset transaction when a predetermined threshold of the generated signatures are determined to match each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: FIREBLOCKS LTD.
    Inventors: Pavel Berengoltz, Idan Ofrat, Michael Shaulov
  • Patent number: 11893583
    Abstract: A settlement system includes a service provider device 2 which transmits a template information transaction including a template of a transaction to a network 4 of a first blockchain, a user device which transmits, to the network 4 of the first blockchain, a payment information transaction that includes an electronic signature generated by using the template of the transaction and a payment amount, and a smart contract 41, wherein the smart contract 41 verifies the electronic signature by using the payment amount and the template of the transaction, the service provider device 2 generates a settlement transaction by using the template of the transaction, the electronic signature and the payment amount, and transmits the settlement transaction to a network 3 of a second blockchain, a plurality of output conditions are set to the template of the transaction, and the settlement transaction becomes usable when any one of the plurality of output conditions is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Shigenori Ohashi, Atsushi Nakadaira, Shigeru Fujimura, Masayoshi Chikada, Tatsuro Ishida, Hiroki Watanabe, Kota Hidaka, Junichi Kishigami
  • Patent number: 11887089
    Abstract: Implementations described herein relate to dynamic and predictive updating of a payment attribute of a payment instrument. In some implementations, the method includes receiving, at a computing device, route data for a plurality of trips, receiving, at the computing device, first trip data for the first trip from the user device, wherein the first trip data includes at least location data of the user device, calculating, based on the received first trip data, a fuel likelihood score for the first trip, comparing the fuel likelihood score to a first threshold, based on a determination that the fuel likelihood score meets the first threshold: transmitting, to a computer associated with a payment network, a message to update one or more payment attributes stored at the payment network and associated with the first payment instrument, and displaying an indication that the first payment instrument is approved for the fuel transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Zact, Inc.
    Inventors: Ioannis Georgiadis, Gopalakrishnan Hariharan, John K. Thomas
  • Patent number: 11868973
    Abstract: Methods, systems, devices, and computer-readable media for detecting multi-party events and transactions are provided. User data may be monitored to detect data associated with an event involving multiple individuals, such as by identifying transaction data associated with certain types of merchants and/or scheduling, calendar, or correspondence data indicative of an event. The data may be further analyzed to identify a date, location, and/or parties associated with the event. A multi-party event may be generated. The user data may continue to be monitored to identify transactions associated with multiple parties and occurring during a time and/or at a location of the event. At a conclusion of the event, the transactions may be aggregated and an optimal payment scheme may be determined for settlement of the transactions between the parties. In accordance with the determined payment scheme, delegation of portions of the aggregated transactions may be initiated for settlement amongst the parties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Vijay Sahebgouda Bantanur, Muralidharan Balasubramanian, Julie Dallen