Patents Examined by Kelly S. Campen
  • Patent number: 10614460
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention directed to systems and methods that allow for determining a transaction initiation mode used to conduct a transaction and applying a specific set of rules associated with the transaction initiation mode to the transaction. A transaction authorization request message is received at a server computer. The transaction authorization message is for a transaction between a consumer and a merchant and includes a plurality of data elements. The server computer determines a transaction initiation mode, from among at least three different transaction initiation modes, used to conduct the transaction based at least in part on the data elements. The server computer applies a specific set of rules associated with the transaction initiation mode to the transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Alfred William Griggs, Brian Byrne, Lori Van Deloo, John F. Sheets, Fred Liu, Kevin Weller, Andre Machicao, Luba Goldberg, Marc Batchan, Kevin Yuann
  • Patent number: 10600117
    Abstract: A method of tracking and aggregating all Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) “shelf” registration and all capital market activity related to those shelf registrations. The method includes the steps of accessing a first database containing data associated with investment registrations, wherein the data is organized as a series of individual filings. The method further includes the steps of retrieving data from the first database associated with selected ones of the filings, organizing the data into tables based on at least one aggregate aspect of the data common to multiple filings, and storing the retrieved data in at least one table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Inventor: Charles A. Riley
  • Patent number: 10510122
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer program products are provided for processing claims. In various embodiments, claims can be processed in accordance with a data-driven approach that limits changes to existing claims processing rules by using an inclusions table, an exclusions table, and/or a decision table as part of firing or executing claims processing rules to accommodate for such changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: CHANGE HEALTHCARE HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: Tracy Ann Weber, David Sheldon, Prasanth Vijayakumar, Gregory Williams
  • Patent number: 10504083
    Abstract: A financial services center for use with a remote teller station. The financial services center comprises: a video interface for connecting to the remote teller station; and an ATM operable to dispense funds in response to commands received from (i) the remote teller station, and (ii) a transaction host. The ATM is operable to transmit a transaction update to the transaction host, where the transaction update provides information about funds dispensed in response to authorization from the remote teller station. This ensures that the transaction host receives information about funds dispensed in response to authorization received from each of the transaction host and the remote teller station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventor: Gordon Forsyth
  • Patent number: 10497016
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method and electronic system are provided in which payment information is exchanged between a buyer and seller. A user interface is provided that facilitates seller selection of an identified payment date and amount for early payment. The system operates on the seller selections to identify invoices that may be discounted based on seller selections and offers the discount to the buyer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
    Inventors: Xuan McRae, Duc Lam, Matthew Roland
  • Patent number: 10475126
    Abstract: An insurance quote system includes a database server, a web server and an insurance broker operatively coupled together. A plurality of insurance carrier computers are coupled with the web server through a telecommunication channel. A first computer interface of the insurance broker computer includes a data entry window having a plurality of data entry fields configured to receive data inputs including an insurance carrier identifier, an insurance form identifier, an insurance endorsement identifier, an insurance coverage issue, and a status score for the insurance coverage issue. A second computer interface includes a quote viewing window, and a third computer interface includes a form selection window configured to allow the user to select a plurality of insurance form identifiers and insurance endorsement identifiers referenced in a plurality of quotes. A report generation button on the third computer interface may be selected to generate a quote report based upon the referenced identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Little Bear Enterprises, LLC
    Inventors: Timothy L Clegg, Bart Jarman, John Lopez
  • Patent number: 10460388
    Abstract: A system for managing trading orders comprises a memory operable to store an order associated with a first price. The system further comprises a processor communicatively coupled to the memory and operable to identify a latency value. The processor is further operable to receive a counterorder and to identify a potential trade associated with the order and the counterorder, the potential trade based at least in part on the first price. If the latency value satisfies a configurable condition, the processor is further operable to initiate a configurable period of time. If the potential trade is not valid upon expiration of the configurable period, the processor is further operable to prevent the execution of the potential trade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: BGC PARTNERS, INC.
    Inventors: Peter Bartko, John Robert Capuano, Joseph C. Noviello, Brian Alexander Weston
  • Patent number: 10453145
    Abstract: A computer system for processing data for verification of vehicle repair estimates in connection with insurance claims includes an insurance claims database having data relating to insurance claims. One or more computer processors are configured to receive claim identifying data from a repair facility computer system; determine, based on the claim identifying data, an insurance claim associated with the claim identifying data; establish secure communication with the repair facility computer system; receive data indicative of a repair estimate associated with the insurance claim from the repair facility computer system; access an evaluation of the estimate based on a plurality of rules, compare the estimate to one or more thresholds, and forward the estimate to a claim handler system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Hartford Fire Insurance Company
    Inventors: Michael John Lawlor, Bethany Siddall
  • Patent number: 10453146
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses and computer-readable media for receiving data associated with a structure or home are provided. Data may be received from an insurance provider, from publicly available sources and/or from a user. The data may include information about the structure and/or items within the structure, as well as a locality in which the structure is located, and/or other structures in the locality or neighborhood. The data may be used to assess items associated with the structure to determine a probability that an item may have an issue. Other aspects relate to receiving a request for assistance from a user in identifying a cause of an issue and remedying the issue. In some examples, the received data associated with the structure may be aggregated with data from the user about the issue in order to identify a cause of the issue and develop an action plan to address the issue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Allstate Insurance Company
    Inventors: Kurt M. Stricker, Beverly Landry-Gonzalez, Nicolette de Guia, Mark E. Faga, Kelly Ann Brennan, Robert H. Johnson
  • Patent number: 10453049
    Abstract: Embodiments presented herein describe systems, methods, and products that may maintain separate databases to provide for logical and physical separation of funds maintained in a single account database. The single account database may include a database record containing the entire balance of a user's funds, but systems, methods, and products may split the funds between several, physically separated sub-accounts that have balances related to the entire balance of the account by maintaining separate database records in the separate databases. The systems, methods, and products may receive requests for financial transactions, including credit and debit transactions, and may identify the target sub-accounts to process the requests, wherein the target sub-accounts are identified based on the information contained in the corresponding requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Square, Inc.
    Inventor: Brian Grassadonia
  • Patent number: 10453124
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for an adaptive financial system. One of the methods includes receiving, from a user, a selected lifestyle archetype of a user, wherein the selected lifestyle archetype identifies a predetermined allocation of income and spending. The method includes monitoring financial activities of the user. The method also includes providing feedback to the user based on the monitoring and the selected lifestyle archetype.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Teddy Joseph Edmond Voutour, David C. Ault, Christina N. Nickel
  • Patent number: 10453131
    Abstract: The APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR A LOCKED-IN TRADE FACILITATION ENGINE (“LITF ENGINE”) provides and facilitates delivery of open futures positions, upon or before expiry, into financial instruments, such as currency-denominated fixed income market positions. The LITF ENGINE facilitates cash trade transactions produced upon expiration of currency-denominated interest rate and fixed income futures contracts such as U.S. Treasury futures. In one embodiment, the LITF ENGINE provides a delivery process for U.S. Treasury futures, where contracts that remain open after the close of trading on the last trading day of the delivery month may be automatically submitted as locked-in trades in the underlying U.S. Treasury securities eligible for settlement on a delivery vs. payment (DVP) basis on the next business day.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: NYSE Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew Miles Booth
  • Patent number: 10430886
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide for an automated system for analyzing damage and processing claims associated with an insured item, such as a vehicle. An enhanced claims processing server may analyze damage associated with the insured item using photos/video transmitted to the server from a user device (e.g., a mobile device). The mobile device may receive feedback from the server regarding the acceptability of submitted photos/video, and if the server determines that any of the submitted photos/video is unacceptable, the mobile device may capture additional photos/video until all of the data are deemed acceptable. To aid in damage analysis, the server may also interface with various internal and external databases storing reference images of undamaged items and cost estimate information for repairing previously analyzed damages to similar items. Further still, the server may generate a payment for compensating a claimant for repair of the insured item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Allstate Insurance Company
    Inventors: Jennifer A. Brandmaier, Mark E. Faga, Robert H. Johnson, Daniel Koza, William Loo, Clint J. Marlow, Kurt M. Stricker
  • Patent number: 10430885
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide for an automated system for analyzing damage and processing claims associated with an insured item, such as a vehicle. An enhanced claims processing server may analyze damage associated with the insured item using photos/video transmitted to the server from a user device (e.g., a mobile device). The mobile device may receive feedback from the server regarding the acceptability of submitted photos/video, and if the server determines that any of the submitted photos/video is unacceptable, the mobile device may capture additional photos/video until all of the data are deemed acceptable. To aid in damage analysis, the server may also interface with various internal and external databases storing reference images of undamaged items and cost estimate information for repairing previously analyzed damages to similar items. Further still, the server may generate a payment for compensating a claimant for repair of the insured item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Allstate Insurance Company
    Inventors: Jennifer A. Brandmaier, Mark E. Faga, Robert H. Johnson, Daniel Koza, William Loo, Clint J. Marlow, Kurt M. Stricker
  • Patent number: 10430887
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses and computer-readable media for receiving data from one or more sensors associated with one or more home devices of a user, such as appliances, home systems, etc. and/or one or more sensors associated with a vehicle of the user, and/or receiving data associated with a lifestyle of the user are presented. In some examples, the data may aggregated and analyzed to assess risk associated with the user in order to determine or adjust an insurance rate or premium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Allstate Insurance Company
    Inventors: Carolyn Parker, Robert H. Johnson, Nicholas A. Suizzo, Rothana Srey, Sean P. Willett, Regina Madigan, Nan Zhang
  • Patent number: 10423997
    Abstract: Electronic commerce over a computer network is facilitated by a computer system that forms a community of computers that enable the users to buy and sell items in an online marketplace. To list the item on an online marketplace website, for example, the selling user posts an item with a seller marketplace item management website by completing an online-item marketplace item creation form. The form requires input related to the item, such as a description, sale price or minimum bid, shipping instructions, and the like, and an image file or image file location illustrating the marketplace item. The seller marketplace item management server provides a marketplace administrator server the marketplace item data including original image file or image file location. The server contains a random image size generator that generates at least two additional images of the marketplace item for display in a seller marketplace item web page to advertise the marketplace item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Overstock.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Holly C. MacDonald Korth, Samuel Jacob Peterson
  • Patent number: 10417246
    Abstract: An arbitrary number of custom catalogs for an arbitrary number of customers can be published from a single database of seller catalog data. Custom browse hierarchies can be generated for each of the custom catalogs. The custom catalogs are subsets of the catalog database, and are generated in accordance with a set of rules that defines the scope of the content of the custom catalog. The rule sets define a series of sequential searches by which a subset of the product SKUs contained in the database are returned. A primary hierarchy is maintained that can have a scope coextensive with the primary database. Custom browse hierarchies can be pruned to render their scope approximately coextensive with each subset. The custom catalog subsets and the custom browse hierarchies are generated periodically through a virtual publication process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Inventors: Scott Bonneau, Michael Nonemacher, Jeremy Weinrib
  • Patent number: 10390199
    Abstract: Mobile devices, methods, and computer-program products are provided for prioritizing data sets. A transmission is received from a proximity broadcasting device. The transmission is a data packet that includes a unique identifier corresponding to the proximity broadcasting device. A proximity broadcasting system corresponding to the proximity broadcasting device is identified based on the unique identifier. At least one transaction data set corresponding to the proximity broadcasting system is selected from among a plurality of transaction data sets. The at least one transaction data set is prioritized above the remaining transaction data sets in a hierarchical order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Kai P Johnson, Ryan L Watkins
  • Patent number: 10380693
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating data representative of insurance coverage for autonomous vehicles are provided. In particular, systems and methods for generating data representative of insurance coverage for autonomous vehicles based on data representative of autonomous vehicle reliability are provided. The data representative of autonomous vehicle reliability may include data representative of the autonomous vehicle original equipment manufacturer test results, autonomous vehicle system manufacturer test results, autonomous vehicle system component manufacturer test results, insurance company autonomous vehicle, systems and/or component test results, and/or third party test results of the autonomous vehicle, systems and/or components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventor: Jerry Brett Suiter
  • Patent number: 10380692
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses and computer-readable media for receiving data from one or more sensors associated with one or more home devices, such as appliances, home systems, etc. are presented. In some examples, the data may be used to determine whether the home device is operating within an expected range. The data may also be used to determine an insurance rate or premium for a user associated with the home device(s). In some arrangements, the data may be used to determine an age of a home device, as well as a likelihood of failure of that device. This information may be used to determine or adjust insurance premiums or rates and/or provide incentives to users to repair or replace the home device(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Allstate Insurance Company
    Inventors: Carolyn Parker, Robert H. Johnson, Nicholas A. Suizzo, Rothana Srey, Sean P. Willett, Regina Madigan, Nan Zhang