Patents Examined by Frantzy Poinvil
  • Patent number: 11244767
    Abstract: Computerized method requiring claim adjudication to receive patient payment for a product or service provided by a healthcare provider to a patient with full financial responsibility, including receiving a patient claim; re-pricing the claim, automatically initiating a real-time payment authorization request through a payment gateway; receiving a real-time notification that the patient's funding source has verified funds availability, with the funds to be deposited in a designated account for subsequent provider payment; sending the healthcare provider the copay and plan pay pricing edits; and concurrently, sending the patient a payment e-receipt electronically, indicating the total amount due and the amount debited from the patient's funding source, the plan payment, with any difference the copay to be paid directly to the provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Inventors: Richard James Morrison, Walter James Morrison
  • Patent number: 11238451
    Abstract: A method of processing a transaction between a customer and a merchant includes receiving from a mobile device of the customer or from another device of the customer an indication of consent to perform a cardless payment transaction with the merchant, receiving from the mobile device an indication that the customer is within a predetermined distance of the merchant, after receiving both the indication of consent and the indication that the customer is within the predetermined distance, sending to a computer system of the merchant an indication of the presence of the customer and personal identifying information for the customer, receiving data indicating a transaction between the customer and the merchant, and submitting the transaction to a financial service for authorization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Square, Inc.
    Inventors: William Henderson, Jack Dorsey, Brian Grassadonia, Mathew Wilson
  • Patent number: 11227333
    Abstract: A system, comprises a device including a memory with an application configured to validate data in an acquisition installed thereon, wherein the system is improved by the application being configured to electronically receive a query for a financial transaction between a first party and a second party, electronically transmit an encryption key from the second party to a third party, electronically transmit the encryption key from the second party to a data source and accessing a first set of a data associated with the financial transaction, electronically receive the first set of data associated with the financial transaction and validate the first set of data associated with the financial transaction by applying validation heuristics and output a finding report and provide the second party validation heuristic output in the finding report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Fannie Mae
    Inventors: Eric Rosenblatt, Stacey Shifman, Lois Wesly, Alex Medinets, Khristina Waters
  • Patent number: 11222375
    Abstract: A personalized data analysis method is provided, so as to find features having discrimination capability from target analysis items. In particular, a data analysis method includes: acquiring sample data; selecting discriminative features of the sample data; determining, for a target analysis item, whether it has a discriminative feature; and correlating the target analysis item with the discriminative feature in response to having the discriminative feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Shiwan Zhao, Xian Wu, Quan Yuan
  • Patent number: 11216782
    Abstract: An online insurance system including a customer interface, configured to enable an insurance customer to enter insurance claim details, a tradesperson interface, configured to enable a tradesperson to provide cost estimates based at least in part on the insurance claims details, and an assessor interface, configured to enable an assessor to review the claim provided by the customer; and the cost estimates provided by the tradesperson.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: RANDALL INNOVATIONS PTY LTD
    Inventor: Peter John Randall
  • Patent number: 11216900
    Abstract: An investigative system uses positioning information, such as global position system information, from a non-resident device used for communication with a correctional facility inmate. Therein, a correctional facility communications application program upon installation on a non-resident communication device, prompts the non-resident to grant a waiver for an investigative data aggregation and analysis system associated with at least one correctional facility to access positioning information provided by the non-resident communication device, and prompts the non-resident to grant location reporting permission on the non-resident communication device, prior to use of the non-resident communication device to communicate with a correctional facility inmate. The investigative data aggregation and analysis system, thereafter, captures position data collected by the non-resident communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Securus Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Brian Heith Galyean
  • Patent number: 11216877
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention may provide users with an automated electronic trade matching system for orders to buy and sell fixed income instruments. Embodiments of the present invention may incentivize subscribers to enter unbiased, executable orders in their maximum desired size while discouraging and taming predatory behavior. Embodiments of the present invention may prevent individual subscriber order information from being revealed to other parties unless needed to facilitate the execution and clearance/settlement of subscriber orders or required by law or regulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Electronifie, Inc.
    Inventors: Stefan Kutko, Amar Kuchinad, Ian McAllister
  • Patent number: 11216889
    Abstract: A system may include a router that may receive a plurality of data packets from one or more devices that communicatively couples to the router. The system may also include at least one processor that identifies an identity of a device based on a data packet received by the router from the device, generate an insurance policy that includes the device in response to identifying the identity of the device, and sends a notification indicative of the insurance policy to a computing device in response to generating the insurance policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Emily Margaret Gray, Daniel Christopher Bitsis, Jr., Qunying Kou, Robert Wiseman Simpson, Manfred Amann, Donnette Moncrief Brown, Eric David Schroeder, Meredith Beveridge, Michael J. Maciolek, Bobby Lawrence Mohs, Brian F. Shipley, Justin Dax Haslam, Ashley Raine Philbrick
  • Patent number: 11205224
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for assigning values to objects includes receiving a plurality of values for each of a plurality of base objects including a first and second base object; receiving a plurality of values for a first composite object associated with the first and second base objects; generating and storing in the memory a solution set including combinations of values of the first and second base objects; for each combination in the solution set, generating first transaction results by computing transactions between the values of the first and second base objects; comparing each of the first transaction results to a first range of values including the values of the first composite object; and removing, from the solution set and from the memory, the combinations of the values of the first and second base objects corresponding to the first transaction results that are outside of the first range of values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.
    Inventors: David Bixby, Frederick Sturm, Edmund Carey, Sten Anderson, Vivek Kondaveeti, Thomas Lord
  • Patent number: 11205237
    Abstract: Techniques described herein are directed to analyzing intellectual-property data according to provide various intellectual property related services to organizations. In particular implementations, information related to products and/or services may be obtained from a number of data sources. Additionally, information related to intellectual-property assets, such as patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and know-how, may be obtained. In various situations, the intellectual-property assets may be mapped to respective products and/or services. The mappings between the products and/or services and intellectual-property assets may be used to provide intellectual property related services that correspond to the intellectual-property assets, such as valuation services, strategy-related services, or risk-related services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: AON RISK SERVICES, INC. OF MARYLAND
    Inventors: Lewis C. Lee, Daniel Crouse, David Craig Andrews, Samuel Cameron Fleming
  • Patent number: 11200620
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed that identify and locate debt settlement candidates based on credit data associated with the consumer. For example, candidacy may be based on a debt score, generated by an assessment of the consumer's credit data. Credit data may include the consumer's credit score rank, credit score, revolving credit to debit ratio, credit available, delinquent accounts, negative accounts, instances of negative information on their credit report, public record data, average account age, debit, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: CONSUMERINFO.COM, INC.
    Inventors: Michael John Dean, Mark Joseph Kapczynski
  • Patent number: 11195191
    Abstract: There is provided a method of generating on a computer a prioritized listing of customers. The method includes establishing a data communications link to a database including financial payment information related to a financial transaction of an existing vehicle of each customer. The method includes retrieving an existing payment amount based upon the financial payment information. The method includes calculating a new payment amount. The method further includes deriving a payment difference score based upon a difference between the existing payment amount and the new payment amount. The method includes determining a behavior factor. The method includes deriving on a computer a behavior score based upon the behavior factor. The method includes determining a purchase behavior prediction score based upon the payment difference score and the behavior score. The method further includes ranking each customer based upon the determined purchase behavior prediction score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: AUTOMOTIVEMASTERMIND, INC.
    Inventors: Marco G Schnabl, Johannes Gnauck
  • Patent number: 11182855
    Abstract: Provided is a customer facing risk ratio for trading desks that deal primarily in derivatives in order to determine conformance with government regulations as it relates to financial entities. The customer facing risk ratio is a metric that measures customer facing risk exposure for trading desks of the financial entity. The metric may be utilized to determine conformance to various regulations as it relates to derivative transactions. The customer facing risk ratio may be utilized to measure the proportion of customer facing risk exposure compared to the total risk exposure for each trading desk of a financial entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.
    Inventor: Jordan D. Vardon
  • Patent number: 11176586
    Abstract: A personalized data analysis method is provided, so as to find features having discrimination capability from target analysis items. In particular, a data analysis method includes: acquiring sample data; selecting discriminative features of the sample data; determining, for a target analysis item, whether it has a discriminative feature; and correlating the target analysis item with the discriminative feature in response to having the discriminative feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Shiwan Zhao, Xian Wu, Quan Yuan
  • Patent number: 11170440
    Abstract: Apparatus for stimulating trading in a limited-liquidity financial instrument are provided. One the method may include receiving a trade of liquidity for the limited-liquidity financial instrument. The receiving may include receiving a first order. The first order may correspond to a price and volume associated with a pre-determined bid-offer spread. The order may be executable only in conjunction with a counterorder that trades with the first order and includes a commitment to make a two-way market in the financial instrument at the predetermined bid-offer spread. In certain embodiments, when the first order is received from a first entity and the counterorder is received from a second entity, the method may also include receiving a bid price and an offer price from a second entity. The method may also include receiving an instruction from the first entity to select one of the bid and the offer and to execute a trade therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: GFI Group Inc.
    Inventors: Francesco Cicero, Simon Prest
  • Patent number: 11164178
    Abstract: A system and method for adding a virtual credit account to a mobile device is disclosed. The system receives a contact information for a customer at a store's electronic device, the contact information comprising: at least one of a device identifier (ID) and a user ID, the contact information being part of a request for a pre-existing credit account to be added to the customer's mobile device. An access to an account lookup/verification for the pre-existing credit account is provided to the customer's mobile device, the access generate an out-of-band verification. the request for the pre-existing credit account to be added to the customer's mobile device in conjunction with the out-of-band verification is provided by the customer's mobile device. The pre-existing credit account is then added to the customer's mobile device in a digital format allowing the customer to make a purchase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Comenity LLC
    Inventors: Chris Anderson, Jess Lawrence, Manoj Ram Tammina
  • Patent number: 11151665
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating participative support among users are disclosed. The users may include content-providing users that provide user-provided content to other users. Exemplary implementations may: obtain items of user-provided content; effectuate presentations of the items of user-provided content through user interfaces to the users; receive revenue information from the users, wherein the revenue information represents received revenue for the content-providing users, including a participative-support exchange between a second user and the content-providing user of an amount of a currency being exchanged for a portion of particular (future) revenue received by the content-providing user; determine the particular revenue for the content-providing user, based on the received revenue information; determine and distribute the portion of the particular revenue to the second user, in accordance with the participative-support exchange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: HEIR APPARENT, INC.
    Inventors: Summer Watson, Lynette Perkins
  • Patent number: 11144919
    Abstract: Provided are computer-implemented methods for guaranteeing a payment authorization response. Computer-implemented methods may include determining that a payment authorization response message for a payment transaction was not received from a transaction service provider system within a predetermined period of time after a payment authorization request message for the payment transaction was transmitted to the transaction service provider system; generating a supplemental payment authorization request message for the payment transaction based on the payment authorization request message; determining that the payment transaction is authorized based on a quantitative risk score associated with the supplemental payment authorization request message and an insurer rate associated with the supplemental payment authorization request message; and transmitting a supplemental payment authorization response message to a merchant system based on determining that the payment transaction is authorized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Gurpreet Singh Bhasin, Biju Abraham
  • Patent number: 11138595
    Abstract: A method for maintaining transaction integrity for transactions performed over a public network includes: receiving a transaction message corresponding to an original transaction, the transaction message including a unique, client-assigned, first identifier; in response to receiving the transaction message, assigning a unique, second identifier to the original transaction; generating a request to process the original transaction including at least a portion of the transaction message and the second identifier; transmitting the request to an issuer server to process the original transaction; receiving a first response from the issuer server in connection with the original transaction; in response to the first response, generating a second response corresponding to the original transaction including the first identifier and the second identifier; and transmitting the second response to the client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Libby A. Kurien, Glenn Powell, Murali Krishnan Sreenivasan, Anand Pandya, Bishenjit Paul Choudhury, David Tseselsky, Galileo Olmos
  • Patent number: 11138586
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system as a computer server platform and application programming software installed in primary devices of users for exchanging and trading digital asset securely and anonymously between two users of the system where said digital asset is registered under a device account of a primary device of a user with the system using a unique device account name. The present invention respects “privacy by design” in GDPR by using device account based-on anonymized data instead of personal account based-on personal data of prior art to ensure the system does not collect, store and process users' personal data in the course of device accounts' set-up and transactions of digital assets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: DAXCHAIN LIMITED
    Inventors: Maggie Phan, Anthony Phan