Patents Examined by Hani M. Kazimi
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Patent number: 11720951Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an intelligent quote-to-cash software agent (“the Agent”) that enables users to efficiently interface with a quote-to-cash system from external messaging applications. The Agent is able to communicate with users using natural language and to identify quote-to-cash system action requests and associated parameters from natural language communications. The user may communicate with the Agent from one of plurality of messaging applications that are not associated with the quote-to-cash system. In response to identifying a quote-to-cash action request and associated parameters in a communication session with a user, the Agent calls the quote-to-cash system and obtains the applicable quote-to-cash output requested by the user. The Agent forwards the quote-to-cash system output to the user via the external messaging application selected by the user. The Agent may initiate communications with the user to inform the user of an opportunity in the quote-to-cash process.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Apttus CorporationInventor: Kirk G. Krappé
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Patent number: 11694180Abstract: Methods, systems, and machine-readable media are disclosed for registering a mobile device for use in a mobile commerce system. According to one embodiment, a method of registering a mobile device for use in a mobile commerce system can comprise receiving at a service provider system a registration request from a user of the mobile device. A determination can be made with the service provider system whether to allow registration of the mobile device. In response to determining to allow registration of the mobile device, the registration request can be sent from the service provider system to an acquirer system.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2018Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: FIRST DATA CORPORATIONInventors: Steven E. Arthur, Christopher L. Toomer, Sarah Owen, Theodore VanDeburg
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Patent number: 11694207Abstract: A method for execution by a marketplace server includes detecting fraudulent acquisition of an exchange item by a first computing device, where the exchange item has a static identifier (ID) and a dynamic ID that is generated based on exchange item security parameters associated with the exchange item. The method further includes deactivating the dynamic ID and the exchange item security parameters in response to the detecting fraudulent acquisition, where the static ID of the exchange item remains active and valid. The method further includes generating second exchange item security parameters for the exchange item. The method further includes generating a second dynamic ID based on the second exchange item security parameters, where the second dynamic ID establishes the exchange item for utilization in an exchange item marketplace network. The method further includes updating a record in a marketplace database to include the second dynamic ID.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2022Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Raise Marketplace, LLCInventors: David S. McGregor, Frank Zhengfan Yang
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Patent number: 11694257Abstract: A device receives comment information that is associated with users and includes comments provided by the users, about an entity, via social media sources, and receives transaction information that is associated with the users and includes financial transactions of the users with the entity. The device determines correlations between the comment information and the transaction information, where the correlations between the comment information and the transaction information provide weights to the comment information to generate weighted comment information. The device generates a prediction about a future stock price of the entity based on the weighted comment information, the transaction information, and the correlations between the comment information and the transaction information, and provides the prediction about the future stock price of the entity for display.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2019Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Capital One Services, LLCInventor: Joni Bridget Jezewski
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Patent number: 11687882Abstract: A system for interfacing with a decisioning service from a third-party domain. A backend system may receive a request to interface with the decisioning service to generate a prequalification result for a user for a specified product, in response to the actuation of a button included in a third-party web domain rendering a product. The backend system may execute a call on a website of the decisioning service. The backend system may receive the product information from the button. The backend system may generate the website within the third-party domain, including a request for information about the user, in response to executing the call to the website. The backend system may transmit a request for generating prequalification result for the product to the decisioning service. The backend system may receive the prequalification result from the decisioning service.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2022Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Capital One Services, LLCInventors: Satish Kesiboyana, Rajaboopathy Vijayaraghavan, Kush Patel, Jeffrey Roberts, Dustin Ryan Nation, Jonathan Darling, Venkata Sudharsan Dasa
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Patent number: 11687931Abstract: A method of facilitating a transaction with a payment card of a cardholder. The method includes receiving a deceptive PIN comprising a set of characters in which one character is a deceptive character. The deceptive character is different than each of a set of actual characters of an actual PIN of the payment card. The method includes identifying the deceptive character and a position of the deceptive character among the set of characters of the deceptive PIN. The method includes determining a reconstructed PIN by replacing the deceptive character with a corresponding actual character at the position in the deceptive PIN. The actual character is determined based on a predefined mathematical expression and a predefined value for the predefined mathematical expression. The method includes authenticating the reconstructed PIN by matching the reconstructed PIN with the actual PIN. The method further includes facilitating the transaction upon successful authentication.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2019Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Mastercard International IncorporatedInventors: Sudhir Gupta, Harsh Piparsaniya, Rahul Agrawal
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Patent number: 11676146Abstract: An identity chaining fraud detection method that allows each current transaction to be linked to other transactions through commonly shared identities. Over a period of time the links create a chain of associated transactions which can be analyzed to determine if identity variances occur, which indicates that fraud is detected. Additionally, if a specific identity is detected as being fraudulent, that identity can be tagged as fraudulent and can be referenced by a plurality of other merchant transaction chains to determine fraud.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2018Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: VISA INTERNATIONAL SERVICE ASSOCIATIONInventor: B. Scott Boding
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Patent number: 11676208Abstract: Auctioning mechanisms adapted to improve the integrity of dark order block trading are provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2022Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: NYSE Holdings LLCInventors: Alicia Suminski, Anais Fabienne Christiane Dony
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Patent number: 11669828Abstract: A mobile wallet computing system associated with a mobile wallet database includes a mobile wallet circuit structured to present a mobile wallet interface a mobile wallet user. The mobile wallet interface includes a first portion that includes a graphical depiction of a user payment vehicle associated with a financial institution, the first portion including a first interaction point that enables the user to initiate a sequence to engage in a mobile wallet transaction using the mobile wallet. The interface also includes a second portion that includes a second interaction point and a third interaction point, the second interaction point enabling the user to access a functionality enabling the user to indicate a transaction preference for a transaction with an entity other than the mobile wallet provider or financial institution, the third interaction point enabling the user to indicate a preference to initiate communications with the financial institution.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2017Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Ashish B. Kurani, Joseph Ng
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Patent number: 11640596Abstract: A mobile terminal is adapted for mobile payment through payment in accordance with transaction data from the customer to a merchant via a payment service provider, and is adapted for a clearing of the payment between bank servers. The terminal is characterized in that a) in the secure runtime environment access data are stored for an authentication between the payment trust application and the payment service provider; and b) the agent is further adapted b1) upon an authentication between the payment trust application and the payment service provider, to transmit access data, or authentication data generated employing access data, between the secure runtime environment and the payment service provider, and b2) to accept from the payment trust application a transaction instruction for a payment in accordance with the transaction data and to send it to the payment service provider. A corresponding mobile payment method for a terminal is likewise specified.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2016Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: GIESECKE+DEVRIENT MOBILE SECURITY GMBHInventors: Udo Schwartz, Kurt Stadler, Mihai Creanga
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Patent number: 11636453Abstract: The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer-implemented methods for integrating immediate credit application processes and decisions via a financial institution into ongoing transactions performed at a merchant system. One example method includes receiving a request for new credit account associated with an ongoing transaction at a second system, the request associated with a transaction payload including a session ID and a set of transaction information. A digital credit application is presented, and at least some of the set of transaction information is presented concurrently with the digital credit application. In response to approving the credit application, a new account is generated, a user is redirected back to the merchant system using the session ID, and the credit account information is securely transmitted back to the merchant. The state of the ongoing transaction is restored, and the new payment information is used to complete the transaction.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2022Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Inventors: Adrian Bloy, Morgan Klein-MacNeil, Alan Tam, Trevor Ross Gimbel, Julianne Helen Fong, Sonali Suresh Nagarkar
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Patent number: 11625710Abstract: A mobile wallet computing system associated with a mobile wallet database includes a mobile wallet circuit structured to present a mobile wallet interface a mobile wallet user. The mobile wallet interface includes a first portion that includes a graphical depiction of a user payment vehicle associated with a financial institution, the first portion including a first interaction point that enables the user to initiate a sequence to engage in a mobile wallet transaction using the mobile wallet. The interface also includes a second portion that includes a second interaction point and a third interaction point, the second interaction point enabling the user to access a functionality enabling the user to indicate a transaction preference for a transaction with an entity other than the mobile wallet provider or financial institution, the third interaction point enabling the user to indicate a preference to initiate communications with the financial institution.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2017Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Sudipta N. Kitsis, Ashish B. Kurani, Steven E. Puffer
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Patent number: 11625771Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method for performing a money withdrawal transaction includes transmitting a transaction identifier for use by an ATM. The method also includes receiving the transaction identifier from a mobile device of a user, where the mobile device obtains the transaction identifier by capturing machine readable code from the ATM. The method further includes receiving a withdrawal amount from the mobile device along with an identification of an account for use in the withdrawal transaction. The method additionally includes transmitting withdrawal information to a payment service provider to effectuate authorization of a withdrawal of funds from the ATM in an amount equal to the withdrawal amount. The withdrawal information is transmitted from the payment service provider to the ATM and subsequently received therefrom along with a PIN that is input by the user into the ATM. This process mimics existing withdrawal transaction processes of the ATM.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2019Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: FEXCOInventors: John F. McCarthy, Brian Frey
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Patent number: 11620701Abstract: Techniques to trading assets in at least two preferred currencies are described. According to one aspect of the present invention, a three-tier architecture is presented and includes a brokerage, a market exchange and a currency exchange. Through a consolidated trading platform, the brokerage presents all price, quotas, transactions or settlements in a preferred currency, in conjunction with the market exchange and the currency exchange. As a result, a trader always knows exactly what he/she may end up with a transaction of an asset, where a prevailing exchange rate is obtained prior to a transaction to prevent uncertainty in currency exchanges in another time.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2022Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Inventor: Jacky Benmoha
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Patent number: 11620713Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, are described that enable identifying an insurance information associated with a property, retrieving one or more compliance rules related to the insurance information, automatically determining, based on the one or more compliance rules, whether the insurance information has a compliant status or a non-compliant status, in response to determining that the insurance information has the non-compliant status, processing the insurance information, based on one or more exception rules, to generate an exception waiver including a plurality of waiver parameters, applying the plurality of waiver parameters to a waiver model to determine a waiver confidence score, and based on the waiver confidence score selectively generate an insurance certificate for the property.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2017Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: Accenture Global Solutions LimitedInventors: Peter Ashly, Srinivasan Krishnan Rajagopalan, Venkatesan Kamalakannan, Anand Yesuraj Prakash, Manikandan Chandran, Thangaraj Paramasivan, Sivasubramanian Arumugam Jalajam, Loganathan Muthu, Vinu Varghese, Kumar Viswanathan
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Patent number: 11620638Abstract: Various methods, systems, and devices for loading currency into an electronic wallet are provided. In general, a currency acceptance terminal can be configured to accept currency from a user for loading into the user's electronic wallet, which may be used to purchase products from a merchant. The currency acceptance terminal can be unmanned such that the currency can be accepted and loaded into the electronic wallet without a cashier or other employee handling the currency or the currency acceptance terminal.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2017Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: Wayne Fueling Systems LLCInventor: Henry Fieglein
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Patent number: 11620652Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for implementing user customizable risk management tools with statistical modeling and a recommendation engine within a computing environment are provided. A system may include, for example, means for evaluating the performance of a user rule for fraud prevention, in which the system receives a plurality of purchase transactions for the user; analyzes each purchase transaction received to generate a fraud likelihood score; receives the rule that specifies conditions when the system is to accept or reject transactions regardless of the fraud likelihood score generated by the system; transmits a historical analysis to the user based on the received rule; receives an input from the user to activate the rule; monitors performance of the rule; and transmits a recommendation to the user to retain or cancel the activated rule based on the monitored performance. Other related embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2020Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: STRIPE, INC.Inventors: Michael Manapat, Isaac Hepworth, Tara Seshan, Mike Towber
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Patent number: 11599870Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus in which an electronic device, which does not have a payment function, determines an electronic device most suitable for a current situation among neighboring electronic devices having a payment function, and can provide the determined electronic device to user. According to various embodiments, a server may generate a list comprising information on payment-capable devices related to an account of a user associated with a first electronic device. The list may be generated based on a priority for the payment-capable devices. The list may be transmitted to the first electronic device and a signal for selection of one of the payment-capable devices included in the list may be received from the first electronic device. A signal comprising information related to payment may be transmitted to the selected payment-capable device.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2019Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seongmin Je, Dongun Lim
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Patent number: 11593811Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include a method for performing financial fraud assessment that includes creating a machine learning model based on features used to identify financial fraud risk; receiving financial information associated with customer accounts; establishing communities for the customer accounts; creating a baseline set of the features for each of the communities; receiving new financial information associated with customer accounts; updating the communities for the customer accounts based on the new financial information; extracting an updated set of the features for each of the communities; and determining a difference between the baseline set of the features and the updated set of the features for each of the communities; and using the machine learning model to determine financial fraud risk for each of the communities based on the difference between the baseline set of the features and the updated set of the features for each of the communities.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2019Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Thomas T. Hanis, Subhendu Das, Shanna Hayes
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Patent number: 11593809Abstract: Provided is a computer-implemented method for authenticating a customer during payment transactions based on biometric identification parameters of the customer that includes receiving image data associated with an image template for identification of a customer, receiving image data associated with an image of a biometric identification parameter of the customer during a payment transaction between the customer and a merchant, establishing a short-range communication connection with a user device associated with the customer during the payment transaction between the customer and the merchant, authenticating an identity of the customer for the payment transaction via the short-range communication connection, determining an account identifier of an account of the customer based on authenticating the identity of the customer for the payment transaction, and processing the payment transaction using the account identifier of the account of the customer. A system and computer program product are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Visa International Service AssociationInventors: Elianna Starr, Dennis Franklin Olson, Amy Dawson, Andres Jimenez, Jiayun He, Amisha Sisodiya, Jorge Andre Torres Perez Palacios, Binoy Parag Parikh, Saloni Vijaykumar Mahajan, Sowmya Vuddaraju, Sneha Sri Tadepalli, Lacey Best-Rowden, Kim R. Wagner, Sunpreet Singh Arora, Sunit Lohtia, John F. Sheets