Patents Examined by Hai Tran
  • Patent number: 11948199
    Abstract: Methods, computer-readable media, systems and apparatuses for determining and implementing risk unit usage-based insurance policies. In some arrangements, sensor data associated with vehicle operation data, driving data, and the like, may be received and analyzed to determine a consumption rate of risk units in the risk unit usage-based insurance policy. In some examples, one or more driving behaviors may also be identified (e.g., from the sensor data, historical data, and the like). In some examples, one or more user interfaces may be generated displaying the determined consumption rate and/or driving behaviors. In some arrangements, additional information, such as one or more recommendations for improving (e.g., reducing) consumption rate may be generated and provided via the generated user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Inventors: Regina Madigan, Dana Ferguson, Mark V. Slusar, Timothy W. Gibson, Howard Hayes, Grady Irey
  • Patent number: 11948190
    Abstract: Data account management systems and methods are described. A server is in communication with one or more information source systems, at least one user device associated with at least one user and one or more electronic data accounts associated with the user. The server links the electronic data accounts, monitors data among the information source systems and the linked accounts for any changes in activity associated with the user, predicts a behavioral activity of the user via machine learning based on at least one of the monitored data and historical data associated with the user, identifies at least one notification instruction specific to the user based on the predicted behavioral activity, and generates an interactive graphical user interface (GUI) for display on the user device. The interactive GUI presents one or more of the notification instruction and a user profile of the at least one user among the linked accounts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Citizens Financial Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Kamron Rostami, Robert J. Sherman, Christina Elizabeth Sweeny, Gaurav Sethi, Scott Joseph Slagsvol, Rebecca Marie Hornbuckle, Shaun Kevin Fisher, Najmeh Mirzaie, Grace Elisabeth Nicklin
  • Patent number: 11941008
    Abstract: The CONVERGED MERCHANT PROCESSING APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“CMP”) facilitates the generation of user accounts with merchants. The user may be logged into an electronic wallet or issuer account, and may initiate an account generation process with a one-click mechanism. The CMP may provide information to the merchant in order to facilitate the generation of the account after receiving data from the electronic wallet or issuer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Thomas Purves, Raul Leyva, Alan Johnson, John C. Wang
  • Patent number: 11935056
    Abstract: Systems and methods for transaction management include receiving, from a user device associated with a user, a transaction request and receiving, through a network in a token form, user information associated with the user while the user is accessing transaction information from the user device. The user information comprises data associated with an action by user or a biometric of the user captured by the user device. Based on data associated with the transaction request, a delay in processing the transaction request due to a transaction rule is determined, and then based on the user information, a user interaction indicator associated with the transaction is determined. A transaction management action associated with the transaction is performed based on the user interaction indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventor: Pankaj Sarin
  • Patent number: 11928736
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media, and apparatuses for optimizing policy underwriting and insurance policy coverage are described herein. Insurance information related to a new homeowner insurance policy may be retrieved from one or more insurance system databases. The insurance information may comprise an insurance policy premium. An unrestrained rating plan premium may be determined based on a plurality of premium components. The plurality of premium components may comprise at least one multiplicative factor and at least one additive factor determined from the insurance information. An underwriting score may be determined based on the unrestrained rating plan premium and the insurance policy premium. In response to determining that the underwriting score fails to meet a predetermined underwriting score threshold, the new homeowner insurance policy may be rejected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Allstate Insurance Company
    Inventors: David MacInnis, Jennifer Jabben, Teresa J. Dalenta
  • Patent number: 11928654
    Abstract: A service uses a system of servers and specialized interfaces to facilitate transfer of value from a gift card to an open loop card of a user. The service may support user-facing interfaces that interact with customers. The service may also support an API-based interface with a gift card processor to obtain gift card value, effect the value transfer, and confirm that the gift card value has been depleted. The service may also include a programmatic interface to various transaction processor services such as associating the transferred value with a personal account number of the user, a merchant associated with the original gift card, transaction monitoring, and messaging services that provide status information to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Edmar Soriano, Wesley Marangu, Peter Rhee
  • Patent number: 11914154
    Abstract: Intelligent application of reserves to transactions are described. In an example, server(s) associated with a payment processing service receive, from a point-of-sale (POS) device operated by a merchant, transaction data associated with a payment transaction between the merchant and a customer. Based on a predictive model, the server(s) can determine a level of risk associated with the merchant and/or the payment transaction and can determine a portion of the transaction to withhold from a settlement amount of the payment transaction based at least in part on the level of risk. The portion can be deposited into a reserves account associated with the payment processing service to satisfy costs associated with chargeback requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Block, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Mullins, Jeana Williams, Natalie Tarabay
  • Patent number: 11907930
    Abstract: A method and system for managing payment transactions for a merchant using a computing device coupled to a memory device is described. Each transaction is initiated by a consumer using a payment card. The method includes receiving a registration request from a candidate merchant for enrollment within a manager module wherein the registration request includes registration data associated with the candidate merchant, executing a primary approval process using at least some of the registration data, and transmitting an account request message requesting an opening of a merchant account for the candidate merchant with an acquiring bank upon approval. The method further includes receiving, in real-time, merchant account data associated with the candidate merchant from the acquiring bank upon approval by a secondary approval process wherein the candidate merchant becomes a registered merchant upon the secondary approval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Deborah Barta, David C. Brown, Adam K. Hosp, Matthew Wickman, Joshua G. Monroe
  • Patent number: 11900468
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus and a method for enabling obtainment of a more appropriate compensation for a service. An information processing apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive health state information regarding a health state of a user, a calculation unit configured to calculate a compensation for a service on the basis of the health state information before getting-in to a vehicle by the user or before presenting the compensation for the service regarding the getting-in to a vehicle to the user, and a transmission unit configured to transmit information indicating the compensation for the service. The present technology can be applied to automobile insurance services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masato Kimishima
  • Patent number: 11893640
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method, apparatus, interface and platform for interactive investing, funding and trading. The Great Disruptors Platform (TGDP) provides a platform to companies (business entities) to raise capital online in exchange for equity, royalty and/or other compensation from individual investors and other investors by engaging with the potential investors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Inventors: Alex Mond, Darshan Sedani, Teodros Gessesse
  • Patent number: 11887190
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer-readable storage media disclosed herein provide visual depictions of warnings and errors. An example method includes detecting, using a computing device, a change in a design of a trading algorithm. The trading algorithm is defined by a user-specified arrangement of blocks representing trading functionality. The example method includes determining, using the computing device, whether the trading algorithm complies with a trading algorithm rule. The example method includes facilitating, using the computing device, at least one of warning handling or error handling when the trading algorithm does not comply with the trading algorithm rule. Facilitating warning handling or error handling includes displaying a warning or an error to the user in connection with the trading algorithm before the trading algorithm is available for execution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Trading Technologies International, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Lane, Gregory DeArment
  • Patent number: 11880814
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to an IoT (Internet of Things) enabled device that initiates online or offline payment requests. In some arrangements, the IoT payment device may be managed through a central dashboard available via a stationary computing device or mobile device. In an embodiment, an IoT payment device may provide real-time updates that include data such as device function, alerts on maintenance needs, and direct contact with the service provider for any requests related to the IoT devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Udaya Kumar Raju Ratnakaram, Sriram Balasubramanian
  • Patent number: 11880836
    Abstract: A process may cause a gated autonomous program protocol to be stored on a blockchain. The gated autonomous program protocol is configured to exchange a blockchain unit with a gated wrapped blockchain unit that is exchangeable among blockchain addresses that satisfy one or more gating requirements. The process may verify that an account associated with a particular blockchain address of the blockchain satisfies the one or more gating requirements. The process may cause an issuance of an on-chain verification proof to the particular blockchain address. The on-chain verification proof may be stored on the blockchain as an on-chain representation that the particular blockchain address is verified with the one or more gating requirements. The gated autonomous program protocol verifies the on-chain verification proof before approving a transaction request associated with the gated wrapped blockchain unit that is initiated by the particular blockchain address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Veri Labs, Inc.
    Inventor: Balazs Nemethi
  • Patent number: 11869087
    Abstract: A system and method allows an advisor to identify allocations of investments and/or asset classes to each of several model portfolios in each of several investment strategies selected by the advisor, and to select asset classes to use and features to supply, as well as to select a primary and secondary investment to use for tax loss harvesting. Each of several investors is linked to an advisor and prompted with questions whose answers provide an initial assignment of the investor to an investment strategy from among those selected by the advisor to which the investor is linked and a model portfolio of that strategy, such initial assignment being capable of change from the investor in a limited fashion or the advisor in a broader fashion. Investments are made and redeemed and rebalancing occurs in accordance with the model portfolio of the investor and the allocations of the advisor for that model portfolio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: James Scott, Brandon Summers, Kendall Houston, Yuriy Sakovich, Christopher J. Zahner
  • Patent number: 11869092
    Abstract: Methods and systems for monitoring use and determining risks associated with operation of a vehicle having one or more autonomous operation features are provided. According to certain aspects, operating data may be recorded during operation of the vehicle. This may include information regarding the vehicle, the vehicle environment, use of the autonomous operation features, and/or control decisions made by the features. The control decisions may include actions the feature would have taken to control the vehicle, but which were not taken because a vehicle operator was controlling the relevant aspect of vehicle operation at the time. The operating data may be recorded in a log, which may then be used to determine risk levels associated with vehicle operation based upon risk levels associated with the autonomous operation features. The risk levels may further be used to adjust an insurance policy associated with the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Blake Konrardy, Scott T. Christensen, Gregory Hayward, Scott Farris
  • Patent number: 11869080
    Abstract: Certain embodiments provide systems, methods, and apparatus for trading in a distributed server architecture. An example method includes receiving, by a computing device, a definition for a trading strategy, wherein the trading strategy includes a first tradeable object and a second tradeable object. The example method includes selecting, by the computing device, a first server to process one or more trade orders for the first tradeable object and a second server to process one or more trade orders for the second tradeable object. The example method includes sending, by the computing device, the definition for the trading strategy to the first server and the second server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Trading Technologies International, Inc.
    Inventors: Patricia A. Messina, Bharat Mittal
  • Patent number: 11861698
    Abstract: A device receives transaction data associated with an individual that is participating in a transaction for a vehicle. The device identifies transaction term values relating to the transaction. The device determines scores indicating likelihoods of the transaction term values contributing to prevention of completion of the transaction. The device receives vehicle inventory data describing vehicles. The device identifies one or more recommended vehicles, of the vehicles, based on performing a vehicle search of the vehicles described by the vehicle inventory data, where the vehicle search identifies the one or more recommended vehicles based on one or more filters. The device provides vehicle offer data for the one or more recommended vehicles to one or more other devices to permit the one or more other devices to use the vehicle offer data as part of another transaction for a particular vehicle of the one or more vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Hoover, Micah Price, Qiaochu Tang, Stephen Wylie, Geoffrey Dagley
  • Patent number: 11861724
    Abstract: A driving accident simulation, having a virtual- or augmented-reality user interface, may be used to inform a driver of the driver's potential liability under different insurance options. The simulation may determine damages caused by the simulated accident, and identify multiple insurance options and the resulting user liability under each option. The simulation may also be used to assess an insurance adjuster's ability to estimate damages from an accident, by receiving the adjuster's estimate and comparing it to the simulation's own estimate of damages. In some embodiments, the simulation may present a driver with a simulated view from a point of view of another party to the simulated accident.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Allstate Insurance Company
    Inventors: Andrew L. Carbery, Daniel Koza, Christopher G. Plachta, Philip Peter Ramirez
  • Patent number: 11847657
    Abstract: Batch-processing of open tabs associated with one or more customers of a merchant is described. An identifier and/or payment instrument associated with the customer may be determined and a tab data structure associated with a customer may be created. The tab data structure may be configured to store interactions between the customer and the merchant. Details of transactions between the customer and the merchant may be stored while the tab remains open. In response to determining that an event has occurred, the open tab(s) may be closed and the stored transactions may be processed via a batch-processing technique. In this way, the open tabs associated with the customer and/or the merchant may be processed in batch, thereby reducing the level of interaction and resources required of the merchant and customer to process tabs individually and reducing the amount of delayed and/or lost funds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Block, Inc.
    Inventor: Kyle Callender
  • Patent number: 11842394
    Abstract: A system for processing trading orders comprises an optimizer module operable to receive a first trading order and a second trading order. The optimizer module is further operable to receive market data associated with at least one market center. The optimizer module is further operable to determine whether to transmit the second trading order to the at least one market center prior to transmitting the first trading order to the at least one market center, the determination based at least in part on the market data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: BGC PARTNERS, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew W. Claus, James R. Driscoll, James C. Johnson