Patents Examined by Frantzy Poinvil
  • Patent number: 11797979
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes: receiving a request to perform a mobile wallet transaction between a user and a merchant via a mobile wallet application operating on a mobile device of the user; determining a location of the mobile device; receiving transaction information from a merchant computer system associated with the merchant; determining a location of a merchant point-of-sale device in communication with the mobile device; comparing the location of the mobile device and the location of the merchant point-of-sale device to determine whether the location of the mobile device is within a predefined distance of the location of the merchant point-of-sale device; generating a transaction code; transmitting the transaction code to the mobile device; transferring funds from an account of the user to a merchant account; and, transmitting an indication that the mobile wallet transaction has been completed to the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Stephen M. Ellis, Michael J. Kennedy, Ashish Bhoopen Kurani, Melissa Lowry, Uma Meyyappan, Bipin M. Sahni, Nikolai Stroke
  • Patent number: 11798081
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods and computer systems for an electronic transaction platform that enables the buying and/or selling of securities by users. The methods and systems relate to the arrangement and presentation of information in a graphical user interface during an electronic communication session for trading a financial instrument between an initiating user and one or more invitee users with the assistance of a dealer user or other intermediate entity. A cloud score representative of a likelihood of successfully completing a transaction is determined and utilized to arrange information during the electronic communication session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Broadridge Fixed Income Liquidity Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: James Toffey, Spenser Huston, Vijay Mayadas, William Gartland, Thomas Duignan, Rick Montgomery, Albert John Cass, Suneel Nallagonda, Bryan Moore
  • Patent number: 11775966
    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: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Libby A. Kurien, Glenn Powell, Murali Krishnan Sreenivasan, Anand Pandya, Bishenjit Paul Choudhury, David Tseselsky, Galileo L. Olmos
  • Patent number: 11775976
    Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for a fraud risk score to be given to a merchant for a proposed transaction with a consumer. The fraud risk score is generated by a payment account service provider, such as a credit card processor, using information from a pending transaction as well as information from other payment accounts that the consumer holds to which the payment account service provider is privy. Various factors, including indicators of elevated risk in other payment accounts, are custom-weighted by the merchant for the score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Brad Nightengale, Karl Newland, Kevin Siegel, Zhongxiao Jiang, Sharon Rowberry
  • Patent number: 11776070
    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: October 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Heir Apparent, Inc.
    Inventors: Summer Watson, Lynette Perkins
  • Patent number: 11776062
    Abstract: A matching computer system for electronically generating, matching, and providing online user profiles, and determining a trust score for a user based upon at least social media data and insurance data is provided. The matching computer system may be configured to register users within the matching computer system, receive consent from the users to capture the social media data, and collect the social media data and the insurance data from each registered user. The matching computer system may also be configured to retrieve the social media data and the insurance data associated with each registered user. The matching computer system may be further configured to determine a trust score for each registered user based upon each respective social media data and each respective insurance data. Each trust score represents a level of trustworthiness of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Joseph Robert Brannan, Brian N. Harvey, Ryan Michael Gross, J. Lynn Wilson, Matthew Eric Riley, Sr.
  • Patent number: 11756127
    Abstract: A system includes at least one processor and at least one non-transitory computer-readable media communicatively coupled to the at least one processor. In an embodiment, the at least one non-transitory computer-readable media stores instructions which, when executed, cause the processor to perform operations including receiving a request to insure an item of personal property. The operations also include determining ownership of the item based on information stored on a distributed ledger. The operations also include determining authenticity of the item based on the information stored on the distributed ledger. The operations also include determining a value of the item based on the information stored on the distributed ledger. The operations also include generating an insurance policy for the item based at least in part on the value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association
    Inventors: Jeanie Graciela Lopez, Bharat Prasad, Joel S Hartshorn, Nolan Serrao, Paula Ann Whittington, Thomas Wayne Schwarz, Jr., Minya Liang, Snehal Desai, Celena Dortch
  • Patent number: 11748737
    Abstract: A bank card adding method includes receiving, by a first terminal, a bank card adding request, establishing, by the first terminal, a peer-to-peer wireless communication connection to a second terminal, sending, by the first terminal, a request for obtaining bank card data to the second terminal, receiving, by the first terminal, the bank card data sent by the second terminal, obtaining, by the first terminal, bank card account information based on the bank card data, and sending, by the first terminal, a card issuing request to a first server to add a bank card to the first terminal, where the card issuing request includes the bank card account information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guoqing Li, Jingqing Mei
  • Patent number: 11741474
    Abstract: A computing system for detecting a pattern of fraudulent network events in a payment card network is configured to continuously receive a plurality of scored transaction authorization requests each including a respective account number and a respective fraud score. The computing system is also configured to sort the scored transaction authorization requests into account ranges based the account number, and sort the transaction authorization requests within each of the account ranges into a fraud score range stripes based on the corresponding fraud score. The computing system is further configured to calculate, for the scored transaction authorization requests within each fraud score range stripe, a ratio of a cumulative metric for a shorter time period over a longer time period, and detect, in near real-time, a fraud event associated with one of the account ranges based on the ratio for one of the fraud score range stripes within the account range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Joshua A. Allbright, Christopher John Merz
  • Patent number: 11734771
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating a custom document template are disclosed. An example method may be performed by one or more processors of a system and include retrieving a user document including a user data entry in a user data field, identifying a set of system data fields within a plurality of system documents potentially relevant to the user document, determining, for each of the set of system data fields, a weighted value indicative of a likelihood that the system data field is relevant to the user data field, identifying a most relevant system data field of the set of system data fields, the most relevant system data field having a highest weighted value of the determined weighted values, and generating a custom document template including a dynamic data region for the user data entry, the dynamic data region mapped to the most relevant system data field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Bala Dutt, Rahul Vankudothu, Prabhat Hegde, Anurag Tyagi, Sunil Tandra Sishtla, Sandeep Gupta
  • Patent number: 11734743
    Abstract: A system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a computer-implemented method for enhancing and personalizing an interactive marketplace. The systems and methods provided herein may allow a user to receive search results that are tailored to the user's personal preferences based on social and purchasing information known about the user. In addition, the systems and methods provided herein may provide shipping updates to a buyer that include a personalized message based on location information provided by the package being shipped. In addition, the systems and methods provided herein allow merchants to provide incentives and rewards for shoppers by participating in interactive shopping games.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: EBAY INC.
    Inventors: Michael George Lenahan, Ben Lucas Mitchell, Chahn Chung, Myra Sandoval, Timothy Sean Suglian, Matthew Bret MacLaurin, James Ross Skorupski, Jesse Wolfe, Hsin-Yi Chien, Marie Jeanette Floyd Tahir, Jai Dandekar, Healey Cypher
  • Patent number: 11727494
    Abstract: A computer implemented method includes retrieving, via a computer network, an aerial image corresponding to a geographic location associated with a structure, and analyzing the aerial image to identify a first object within the aerial image. Identifying the first object includes identifying a first object data category corresponding to the first object, and determining objective and subjective data values descriptive of the first object and corresponding to the first object data category. The method also includes identifying one or more action items based upon the first object data category and the objective and subjective data values, and linking the one or more action items to a customer account that is associated with the geographic location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Matthew Cuttell, Timothy Kiper
  • Patent number: 11727496
    Abstract: An enhanced social network module associated with an entity may create a social network for an individual, group, and/or organization. The module may then use the social network to determine risk associated with insuring a member of the social network. The determined risk may be used to calculate a rate for insuring the member. Additional features of the module may allow for the calculation of a group rate for insuring all members of the social network, the calculation of various centrality measures for each member of the social network, the calculation of a trust score for any given member, and the ability to poll members of the social network to determine various characteristics of any given member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Allstate Insurance Company
    Inventors: Thomas Warden, Christian Peccei
  • Patent number: 11720960
    Abstract: A web based finance system allows users to refinance past eligible purchasing transactions. The system can include a system server(s) which is in communication through a network with client computing devices associated with customers. The server can receive customer information and determine a refinancing value range based upon the user has a bank account and/or credit risk rating information. The server can identify prior eligible credit card purchases for refinancing and the customer can select one or more purchases for refinancing and the refinancing loan terms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Affirm, Inc.
    Inventors: Max Levchin, Christopher Beckmann, Jeffrey Howard Kaditz, Roberto Novoa, Andrew Gettings Stevens, Manuel De Jesus Arias, Aaron Ng Ligon
  • Patent number: 11720969
    Abstract: In an approach for detecting vehicle identity and analyzing damage status using a single video, a processor provides an instruction for taking a video of a vehicle for a damage evaluation. A processor receives the video of the vehicle for the damage evaluation. A processor verifies the vehicle in the video being the same vehicle for the damage evaluation. A processor evaluates a damage status of the vehicle. A processor outputs a damage report based on the damage status of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hong Bing Zhang, Jing Wu, Fan Li, Dan Zhang, Yun Jing Zhao, Xue Ping Liu, Xin Fang Hao
  • Patent number: 11720942
    Abstract: Techniques are generally described for interactive image retrieval using visual semantic matching. Image data and text data are encoded into a single shared visual semantic embedding space. A prediction model is trained using reference inputs, target outputs, and modification text describing changes to the reference inputs to obtain the target outputs. The prediction model can be used to perform image-to-text, text-to-image, and interactive retrieval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Loris Bazzani, Yanbei Chen
  • Patent number: 11715152
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for creating an open loop prepaid gift account. The system identifies a request to purchase an open loop prepaid gift account which can be used to make a purchase at a merchant, presents a menu from which a customer can select the merchant, and receives a selection. Based on the selection, the system presents an option to load funds onto the open loop prepaid gift account and, upon receipt of payment, creates the open loop prepaid gift account and loads the open loop prepaid gift account with money, wherein information associated with the open loop prepaid gift account is encoded onto a physical card, and wherein merchant information is printed on the physical card according to an authorization from the merchant, the merchant information including at least one of a legal name, a trade name, a logotype, and a marketing tagline of the merchant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Blackhawk Network, Inc.
    Inventor: Jason Wolfe
  • Patent number: 11710183
    Abstract: Systems and methods for routing trade orders based on exchange latency are disclosed. An example method includes measuring a first latency associated with a first exchange based on a processing time of a first trade order; and routing a second trade order from a trading device to one of the first and a second exchange based on the first latency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Trading Technologies International, Inc.
    Inventor: Patrick Joseph Rooney
  • Patent number: 11710118
    Abstract: A mobile device includes at least one processor, a memory and computer-executable instructions stored thereon. The mobile device is structured to determine first geolocation information indicative of a location of the mobile device and determine, based on the first geolocation information, that the mobile device is located within a predetermined geographic region from a plurality of merchant locations. The mobile device generates an electronic alert message regarding the plurality of merchant locations and displays the electronic alert message to the user. The mobile device determines a user selection of a payment card via a mobile wallet application running on the mobile device. Second geolocation information regarding a location of the mobile device is determined. A code generate a code for a purchase transaction is generated. The code includes the second geolocation information, tokenized payment card information, and a merchant identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Stephen M. Ellis, Michael J. Kennedy, Ashish Bhoopen Kurani, Melissa Lowry, Uma Meyyappan, Bipin Sahni, Nikolai Stroke
  • Patent number: 11704740
    Abstract: A vehicle repair estimate platform for collecting vehicle repair data from a depth and dimension measuring camera and generating a manipulatable three-dimensional model of the vehicle damage. An estimate is generated based on insured claim attributes and predefined vehicle damage parameters, and the estimate tagged for periodic selection for inclusion in a wide area repair estimate matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Inventor: Jonathan Pyle