Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a credit inquiry for a monitored consumer. The method further includes performing at least one credit-inquiry analysis on the credit inquiry. The performing yields at least one of a matched creditor from master creditor records and an inferred credit category based on a lexical analysis. In addition, the method includes, responsive to the performing, determining whether the credit inquiry is related to a previous credit inquiry for the monitored consumer. Further, the method includes, responsive to a determination that the credit inquiry is related to a previous credit inquiry, suppressing a credit alert to the monitored consumer.
Abstract: The present invention is directed to receiving a signature (or other type of verification or confirmation) from a remote user. The present invention enables a merchant to send a signature request over a network to any device having a browser and touch screen or other means for receiving user input. An input area is displayed within the browser on the user's device. When the user inputs a signature (or other form of user input acting as authorization), the signature can be routed over a network back to the merchant to provide authorization for a transaction. Various forms of authentication can be used to verify the identity of the user providing authorization for the transaction. A document can be presented to a remote user in conjunction with a request for authorization input from the user.
Abstract: The present invention is directed to receiving a signature (or other type of verification or confirmation) from a remote user. The present invention enables a merchant to send a signature request over a network to any device having a browser and touch screen or other means for receiving user input. An input area is displayed within the browser on the user's device. When the user inputs a signature (or other form of user input acting as authorization), the signature can be routed over a network back to the merchant to provide authorization for a transaction. Various forms of authentication can be used to verify the identity of the user providing authorization for the transaction.
Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for a clearing framework for clearing a non-deliverable interest rate swap. The clearing framework includes an application programming interface (API) including functions for processing trade messages including information used by a clearing house computing system in clearing non-deliverable interest rate swaps; one or more user interface screens comprising information corresponding to one or more non-deliverable interest rate swaps and one or more user interface screens comprising information of cleared interest rate swaps, one an API for reporting clearing information, wherein the one or more functions comprise a first messaging function to confirm clearing of the one or more non-deliverable interest rate swaps and a second messaging function to request consent to clear the one or more non-deliverable interest rate swaps.
Abstract: A system and method uses one or more repurposed data fields in a payment transaction message to pass the merchant consumable data from a mobile device to the merchant system using an existing channel. The merchant consumable data relate to loyalty or rewards.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 16, 2014
Date of Patent:
February 11, 2020
Assignee:
Visa International Service Association
Inventors:
Christian Flurscheim, Erick Wong, Oleg Makhotin
Abstract: Configuring a shareable widget interface to mobile wallet functions includes disposing a wallet module in a memory of a client device, and disposing a wallet companion applet in a secure element accessible by the client device, wherein the wallet companion applet facilitates access by at least one other applet and at least one wallet module to content that is stored in the secure element via a mobile wallet function sharable interface.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 14, 2016
Date of Patent:
February 11, 2020
Assignee:
MASTERCARD MOBILE TRANSACTIONS SOLUTIONS, INC.
Inventors:
Mehul Desai, Satyan G. Pitroda, Nehal Maniar
Abstract: A system for supporting transactions by mobile devices includes a mobile transaction platform server hosting and managing a plurality of wallet services and at least one interface by which a service provider may discover and access the wallet services to build and distribute at least one wallet service to a services ecosystem, wherein the at least one wallet service enables implementation of a mobile transaction according to a template.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 12, 2016
Date of Patent:
January 28, 2020
Assignee:
MASTERCARD MOBILE TRANSACTIONS SOLUTIONS, INC.
Inventors:
Mehul Desai, Satyan G. Pitroda, Nehal Maniar
Abstract: A system for supporting transactions by mobile devices includes a mobile transaction platform server hosting and managing a plurality of wallet services and at least one interface for deployment of the mobile transaction server within a network ecosystem used by a service provider. The service provider uses a resource of the mobile transaction platform to publish software that provides incremental functionality to a wallet application that operates on the mobile transaction platform.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 12, 2016
Date of Patent:
January 28, 2020
Assignee:
MASTERCARD MOBILE TRANSACTIONS SOLUTIONS, INC.
Inventors:
Mehul Desai, Satyan G. Pitroda, Nehal Maniar
Abstract: A graphical user interface including a controller for redistributing funds between a first account and a second account. The controller includes a slidable element positionable over a fixed background element to define a first segment and a second segment of the background element. A length of the first segment is representative of a balance of the first account, and a length of the second segment is representative of a balance of the second account.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 6, 2009
Date of Patent:
January 21, 2020
Assignee:
The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.
Inventors:
Michael Scott Ley, Christine Johns, Christopher Michael Bajgier, David Wisely Vondle, Dario Francesco Buzzini, Michael Aaron Chapman, Mark Alexander Jones, Rodney Hal Monson
Abstract: The disclosure details implementations of apparatuses, methods, and systems directed to facilitating an entity sponsoring a trust. The sponsoring entity contributes a pool of assets (e.g., a pool of real property mortgages) to fund the trust. The system facilitates the creation of one or more classes of certificates that represent a portion of the assets held in the trust. For example, if the trust is funded by mortgages, the certificates will represent rights to different portions of principal and/or interest payments generated by the mortgages held as the asset pool. The sponsoring entity can use the system to sell all or some of the certificates to unrelated parties and to create a market in the certificates. Further, in an implementation, the sponsoring entity may also use the system to facilitate an ongoing certificate exchange program implementing a series of certificate exchange applications.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 7, 2014
Date of Patent:
January 14, 2020
Assignee:
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC
Inventors:
Christopher John Creed, David Jonathan Rosenblum
Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, computer program products, and systems to generate graphical user interfaces displays on user devices to analyze the effects of costs associated with an aging workforce that is not adequately ready for retirement. These systems will also generate graphical user interfaces displaying the total present value liability of retirement plans over a plan time period, that takes into account retirement savings options, healthcare plan options, target retirement ages, a retirement age ranges, and a replacement age ranges.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 19, 2016
Date of Patent:
December 31, 2019
Assignee:
Massachusetts Mututal Life Insurance Company
Abstract: A system for a computerized, Exchange-controlled network (“ECN”) is disclosed which is operated by an organization forming an Exchange. The ECN has at least one host server disposed at a first location which communicates with at least two front-end virtual servers disposed at second and third locations, wherein the servers are attendant to Exchange-authorized communities of interest (“COI”) each made up of at least one member, and thus authenticated to cryptographically validate and process digital information passed along the ECN without the use of intermediaries. A plurality of devices in the form of dongles are each configured to operate in conjunction with their respective COI member's server, and enable the Exchange to exercise controls over virtually all aspects of digital data access and digital order processing without the use of intermediaries.
Abstract: Facilitating exclusive access to a workflow of a service provider via a mobile wallet interface involves, within a client runtime environment, activating through the interface a service provider-specific application so that the service provider-specific application has exclusive access to a secure electronic transaction workflow of the service provider associated with at least one of the service provider-specific application and the wallet, while being denied access by the client runtime environment to any other service provider services or resources.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 2, 2015
Date of Patent:
December 17, 2019
Assignee:
MASTERCARD MOBILE TRANSACTIONS SOLUTIONS, INC.
Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and systems for processing data transactions use a sequencer communicating with a plurality of data processors and provide improved performance and lower latency.
Abstract: A system and method configured to provide a mechanism allowing a third party, not involved in a payment transaction made between a merchant and a payment account, to provide a credit to the payment account as an offer benefit redeemed in view of the payment transaction. The mechanism includes a transaction handler of a payment processing network configured to provide transaction information relevant to the offer to the third party.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 11, 2014
Date of Patent:
November 26, 2019
Assignee:
Visa International Service Association
Inventors:
Daniel Eisen Fineman, Christopher Magpayo, Ann T. Wang Reed, Derek A. Vroom, Vaishali Rao
Abstract: A multiplicity of participants comprising utility operators, distributed energy resource (DER) providers, vendors/aggregators, energy customers, and utility financial officers, are communicatively connected to a platform. The platform provides interactive interfaces for each type of participant to access the platform over communication network. Utility operators are enabled to view and control DER in a certain area via an interface for utility operators. DER providers are enabled to interconnect DER packages to a utility grid via an interface for DER providers. Vendors/aggregators are enabled to view and manage their portfolios via an interface for vendors/aggregators. Energy customers are enabled to view energy information, shop for new products or services, and manage rate plans via an interface for marketplace. Utility financial officers are enabled to view revenue streams from the platform to a utility via an interface for financial settlement.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 22, 2016
Date of Patent:
November 12, 2019
Assignee:
CAUSAM ENERGY, INC.
Inventors:
Nathaniel Taylor Brockman, Joseph W. Forbes, Jr.
Abstract: As banking transactions are processed by a bank teller, all of the relevant information with respect to the transaction (e.g., dollar amount) is captured in an electronic file. Each of the electronic files from the various branches of the bank are forwarded to a central back office processing center where the electronic files are combined into a single Transaction Repository. At the end of the branch day, all of the paper associated with the transactions is forwarded from the branches to the back office processing center. The paper transactions are imaged in the conventional manner and the Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR) data is read from the paper. The present invention then automatically correlates the images and MICR data captured from the paper with the complete transaction record contained in the Transaction Repository. Most of the conventional back office processing can now be performed without the need to perform character recognition and without the need for excess human intervention.
Abstract: In one embodiment, a transaction is authenticated by a payment provider, as opposed to a merchant, using two user devices without the user having to enter information, such as an email or password. When the user is ready to make a purchase from a merchant site, a unique transaction ID is created by the payment provider. That transaction ID, along with data about the transaction, such as specific items and cost, is automatically sent to the payment provider through a second device linked to the purchasing device. The payment provider compares the identifier from the sending device, such as the phone number, and the transaction ID with information stored in its database. If there is a match, the transaction/user may be approved or authenticated.
Abstract: The disclosure details the implementation of an apparatus, method, and system for a macroeconomic equity investment design and trade system (the Wavefront system). The disclosure teaches a set of quantitative tools to help investors design trades around macro themes. Part of the approach is a linked set of models called Wavefronts, which describe how economic shocks ripple through the economy into company performance, market value and equity returns in the US market. In one embodiment, the modeling may be viewed as having in three parts. The first converts an economic shock into a comprehensive set of shifts in the economy. The second takes those economic shifts and drives them into company fundamentals. The third values those fundamentals based on what the market normally pays.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 5, 2011
Date of Patent:
October 22, 2019
Assignee:
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC
Inventors:
Steven Harris Strongin, II, Lewis Segal, Dominic Wilson