Patents Examined by Hai Tran
  • Patent number: 11393580
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for determining and communicating prescription benefit coverage information to a prescriber of the product, service, or medication. A prescription benefit check request may be received by the service provider computer from a healthcare provider computer for the prescriber of the product, service, or medication. The service provider computer may format a prescription request for the prescribed product, service, or medication and transmit the prescription request to a pharmacy claims processor computer for processing. The service provider computer may receive a prescription response that includes a determination of the prescription request from the pharmacy claims processor computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: MCKESSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Elizabeth S. Kaye, Stacy Hopkins, Roger G. Pinsonneault
  • Patent number: 11341478
    Abstract: A payment processing method and method and an intelligent device are provided. The method may include: intercepting a payment request in a target application program (application, APP) in the intelligent device, the payment request including a payment parameter; obtaining attribute information of the target application program by using a preset executable file; generating a graphic code according to the payment request; outputting the graphic code, so that a terminal device submits the payment parameter to a payment server by scanning the graphic code and reports account information to the payment server, and the payment server performs payment processing according to the payment parameter and the account information and returns a payment result; and feeding back the payment result to the target application program according to the attribute information of the target application program. The method can simplify a payment process and improve the payment efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Dongfang Wu
  • Patent number: 11334878
    Abstract: An improved technique involves including implicit feedback inferred from a fraud analyst's actions into a fraud detection model tuning process. Along these lines, as part of a tuning process, an authentication server sends electronic transactions carrying a certain amount of risk to a case management center in which fraud analysts investigate the electronic transactions to verify whether the transactions are fraudulent or non-fraudulent. In addition to receiving this explicit feedback from the case management center, however, the authentication server also receives implicit feedback indicative of attributes of the fraud analysts themselves. The authentication server then inputs these implicit feedback parameter values into a fraud detection model tuning engine that tunes the fraud detection model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: Marcelo Blatt, Alon Kaufman, Yael Villa
  • Patent number: 11308565
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method are provided for an online jury research system which enables a multiplicity of end-users to build surrogate jury surveys by way of a communications network, such as the Internet. The online jury research system comprises a survey builder which enables the end-users to upload information for which responses of surrogate jurors are desired and to assemble surrogate jury surveys. The uploaded information may include questions, videotaped opening or closing statements, depositions, exhibits, and graphics. A host site is accessible to the end-users by way of the communications network and provides access to a jury services package. In an embodiment, the survey services package comprises services operated by one or more third-party service providers. The online jury research system provides the surrogate jury survey to selected respondents and then compiles the results for review by the end-users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: DecisionQuest, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip Anthony, Michael Cobo
  • Patent number: 11288751
    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: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Blake Konrardy, Scott T. Christensen, Gregory Hayward, Scott Farris
  • Patent number: 11288747
    Abstract: A method for developing, evaluating, and validating investment glide paths for an investment event having an expected first duration includes: generating, with at least one processor, execution logic associated with at least one delayed onset investment glide path associated with the investment event and having the first duration, the at least one delayed onset investment glide path including: (1) an extended fixed allocation glide path, the extended fixed allocation glide path at a beginning of the delayed onset investment glide path, and (2) a reallocation glide path, the reallocation glide path immediately following the extended fixed allocation glide path and continuing for a remainder of the first duration; and automatically initiating, with at least one processor, execution of the at least one delayed onset investment glide path according to the execution logic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Cerebly Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Kantrowitz
  • Patent number: 11282135
    Abstract: A method for securely launching a temporary financial system nested within a permanent financial system, for a locale impacted by a disaster event is provided. The method may include receiving profile-data associated with a new-quasi-user. The method may include storing the profile-data in an account profile. The method may further include analyzing the profile-data. The method may further include authenticating the new-quasi-user based on the analyzing of the profile-data. The method may further include enabling the new-quasi-user, access to a subset of services from the permanent financial system. The enabling may include simulating the temporary financial system to mimic the appearance of the permanent financial system. The method may further include filtering and separating, via a secure information filter, the temporary system from the permanent system thereby limiting the new-quasi-user, access to the permanent financial system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew E. Carroll, Manu Kurian
  • Patent number: 11270382
    Abstract: A computing system and platform includes an event subsample processor and a risk item subsample processor to generate approximations when undertaking processing to model complex events in order to minimize CPU, memory and storage overhead. The event subsample processor approximates values associated with events based on a measure of the importance of select events; the risk item subsample processor groups similar event/risk item pairs and approximates values using representatives from each group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: RISK MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Stephen Jewson
  • Patent number: 11270310
    Abstract: A usage frequency attribute is determined for each biometric feature in a biometric feature database. The usage frequency attribute indicates a matching success frequency of matching the biometric feature to a user having the biometric feature. The biometric features of the user are sorted in descending order of the usage frequency attribute. The sorting is based on a descending order of the usage frequency attributes for a given user. The biometric features in the biometric feature database are stored in descending order. The storing includes providing prioritized access to the biometric feature having a highest value of the usage frequency attribute so that the biometric feature is selected first in response to a request for the biometric feature of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fen Zhai, Chunlei Gu, Lei Lu, Yanghui Liu
  • Patent number: 11250430
    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: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventor: Pankaj Sarin
  • Patent number: 11250431
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for enhancing fraud detection based on transactions at potentially compromised locations is provided. The method includes determining a list of potentially compromised transaction locations, storing the list of potentially compromised transaction locations, and receiving from a first transaction location a first authorization request message for a first transaction. The first authorization request message is associated with a first payment account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Gerard, Po Hu, Qian Wang
  • Patent number: 11244361
    Abstract: A facility for valuing a distinguished home located in a distinguished geographic area is described. The facility receives home attributes for the distinguished home. The facility obtains valuation for the distinguished home by applying to the received home attributes evaluation model for homes in the distinguished geographic area that has been trained using selling price and home attribute data from homes recently sold in the distinguished geographic area. The facility reports the obtained valuation for the distinguished home.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Zillow, Inc.
    Inventors: Stanley B. Humphries, Dong Xiang, Kyusik Chung, Jonathan Lee Burstein
  • Patent number: 11232529
    Abstract: A delivery management system includes a client user terminal, a lock/unlock device, a delivery user terminal, and a processor. The client user terminal is used by a client user who submits a request to deliver the package to a predetermined compartment of a vehicle. The processor makes an electronic payment for a fee when a request to pay for the fee associated with a package has been made from the client user terminal. The processor issues authentication information to a delivery user terminal when the processor has made the electronic payment in a case where there is specification that the client user pays for the fee at the time of delivery of the package. The delivery user terminal makes a request of a lock/unlock device to lock or unlock the predetermined compartment with the authentication information. The lock/unlock device locks or unlocks the predetermined compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Etsuko Nakajima, Naoki Uenoyama, Junya Masui, Akira Hoshino, Hideo Hasegawa, Keiko Nakano
  • Patent number: 11227288
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for integrating disparate data feeds and providing unified data monitoring to identify entities and/or transactions associated with the data for further investigation. Embodiments provide a system including at least one data feed with data having a first structure, and a common data layer configured to map the data to a common data model specifying a second structure common within the system. The system also includes a factor component configured to define a plurality of Factors and their inter-dependencies for deriving information from the mapped data, a model repository to run a selected set of Factors against a selected set of mapped data, according to a specified Model to identify data in the mapped data to evaluate, and to generate an alert based on Model parameters applied to the identified data, and an alert component to format the alert for external consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: CREDIT SUISSE AG
    Inventors: Sterling Daines, Benjamin Voigt, Claudio Grazioli, Vasileios Agrafiotis, Antoine Bodin, Darius Sidlauskas, Michal Paszkowski, Samuel Burkart, Sergey Golubev, Ajay Kumar, Alexander Madsen, Andrew McPherson
  • Patent number: 11227285
    Abstract: A merchant website automatically detects whether a customer device has a registered payment application; if so, the website generates a custom protocol message that is triggered on checkout to initiate payment via the payment application. Details of the transaction are passed to the payment application via a payment server so that the user can authorize the transaction within the payment application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Barclays Execution Services Limited
    Inventor: Jeremy Goldstone
  • Patent number: 11216468
    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: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Thomas Purves, Raul Leyva, Alan Johnson, John C. Wang
  • Patent number: 11216887
    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: June 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Andrew L. Carbery, Daniel Koza, Christopher G. Plachta, Philip Peter Ramirez
  • Patent number: 11210743
    Abstract: A system, method, computing device, and storage medium for blockchain-based data processing. The method comprises: obtaining, from a blockchain node, case information associated with cases; receiving a request for reviewing a target case, the request comprising identity information of a user and identification information of the target case; identifying target case case information from the case information based on the identification information of the target case; determining members satisfying conditions for reviewing the target case based on the identity information of the user and the target case case information; providing a review channel for reviewing the target case to each of computing devices respectively associated with one or more of the determined members; receiving, from the computing devices associated with the one or more of the determined members, case review data generated from review of the target case; and uploading the case review data to the blockchain node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: ADVANCED NEW TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mingliang Wang
  • Patent number: 11205160
    Abstract: An electronic payment and authentication system that includes features to verify the authenticity of a payer, validate debit data, and facilitate debit (as opposed to credit) payment transactions. The electronic payment system allows a consumer to purchase items and services via a network while utilizing a debit transaction. The invention provides merchants with the ability to verify the identity of the consumer, determine if the consumer is a good debit transaction risk, and retrieve debit data associated with a particular consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: FIDELITY INFORMATION SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Whitney Hilton Stewart, Matthew Lacey Peterson, Brian John Gallmeier, Teresa Marie Crews, Mark Andrew Nipe, James Michael Haire, Robert Lawrence Hill, Michael Richard Bates
  • Patent number: 11200572
    Abstract: An authentication server computing device is provided. The authentication server computing device is configured to receive a transaction request from an audio interface device, generate a first audio file including a first audio transmission, wherein the first audio transmission includes a primary security artifact and at least one secondary security artifact and the primary security artifact is an encoding of a one-time password, store a reference data file including the first audio transmission, transmit the first audio file to a verified user computing device associated with the account identifier, receive a second audio file from the audio interface device, wherein the second audio file includes a second audio transmission, verify the second audio transmission by comparing the second audio transmission to the reference data file including the primary security artifact and the at least one secondary security artifact, and authorize the transaction based on verifying the second audio transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jaipal Singh Kumawat, Gurpreet Atwal