Patents Examined by Mark H Gaw
  • Patent number: 11941698
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to implementation of a trading system, which may also be referred to as a trading system architecture, having improved performance which further assures transactional determinism under increasing processing transaction loads while providing improved trading opportunities, fault tolerance, low latency processing, high volume capacity, risk mitigation and market protections with minimal impact, as well as improved and equitable access to information and opportunities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.
    Inventors: Ari Studnitzer, Zachary Bonig, Ryan Eavy, Frank Kmiec
  • Patent number: 11935123
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to implementation of a trading system, which may also be referred to as a trading system architecture, having improved performance which further assures transactional determinism under increasing processing transaction loads while providing improved trading opportunities, fault tolerance, low latency processing, high volume capacity, risk mitigation and market protections with minimal impact, as well as improved and equitable access to information and opportunities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.
    Inventors: Ari Studnitzer, Zachary Bonig, Ryan Eavy, Frank Kmiec, Barry Galster, Paul Callaway
  • Patent number: 11893642
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for generating data representative of multi-product insurance discounts and related user interface displays. The systems and methods may include receiving personal data from an insurance customer and insurance product data. The systems and methods may further include generating data representative of multi-product insurance discounts based on personal data from an insurance customer and insurance product data. The systems and methods may further include generating displays of the multi-product discounts based on data representative of multi-product insurance discounts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Benjamin R. Murphy, Howard Henderson, Jr., Elizabeth Orzolek, Arlene Serapin, Lisa Bianco
  • Patent number: 11869004
    Abstract: Embodiments include systems and techniques to perform secure transactions including processing registration information for each computing device of a plurality of computing devices having authority over a financial account. In one example, embodiments include receiving a pending transaction against the financial account from a computing device. Embodiments include executing an authentication protocol to determine the computing device is a member of the plurality of computing devices based upon the registration information, and processing data identifying another computing device within a configurable distance from the computing device. Embodiments further include the system to execute the authentication protocol to determine the other computing device is a member of the plurality of computing devices based upon the registration information and bypass a portion of a security procedure for authorizing execution of the pending transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Vincent Pham, Austin Grant Walters, Anh Truong
  • Patent number: 11869085
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to implementation of a trading system, which may also be referred to as a trading system architecture, having improved performance which further assures transactional determinism under increasing processing transaction loads while providing improved trading opportunities, fault tolerance, low latency processing, high volume capacity, risk mitigation and market protections with minimal impact, as well as improved and equitable access to information and opportunities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.
    Inventors: Ari Studnitzer, Zachary Bonig, Ryan Eavy, Frank Kmiec, Barry Galster, Paul Callaway
  • Patent number: 11861709
    Abstract: An electronic trading system is configured to trade credit default swap (CDS) futures contracts on an open exchange. The CDS futures contract allows the buyer and seller isolate and trade the credit risk of a third party. The third pay may be a corporation, sovereign government, or any entity that issues bonds or notes. The CDS futures contract seller effectively pays the premium over time in increments determined by market rates and through the natural operation of the open market. The CDS futures contract buyer makes a contingency payment if the CDS futures contract goes in-the-money (ITM). Both sides of the contract are guaranteed by the exchange as a counterparty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.
    Inventor: David Andrew Boberski
  • Patent number: 11861730
    Abstract: Methods and systems for maintaining a distributed ledger and/or blockchain of transactions and/or events pertaining to autonomous vehicles and/or smart contracts are provided. One or more processors may monitor one or more sensors associated with an autonomous vehicle. Based upon the outputs of the sensors, a change in condition of the autonomous vehicle may be detected. The condition may relate to operation, or an operational state of the vehicle and/or a condition associated with a smart contract. The processors may generate a transaction describing the detected change in the condition of the vehicle. The transaction may be transmitted to an enforcement server. As a result, an up-to-date ledger of autonomous vehicle and/or smart contract transactions and/or events may be maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Matthew L. Floyd, Alvin Hon-wai Yu, Antwuan Murphy, Brittney Benzio, Lindsi Brantley, Matthew S. Delaney, Matthew Vulich, Matthew S. Rodriguez, Neha Goel, Sabrina Collins, Annie Pudlo Murillo
  • Patent number: 11836705
    Abstract: Systems and methods for electronic fobs that communicate via short range communications protocols to conduct transactions with a nearby device are provided. Such electronic fobs may use electronic tokens to conduct electronic transactions, such as payment transactions. Account data may be stored within a secure element of the electronic fob. Electronic tokens may also be stored by the secure element. Using such data and/or tokens, electronic fob may write electronic tokens to be used in electronic transactions. Also, such electronic fobs may also be used to perform other tasks and interface with other devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Guhan Senguttuvan, Satish Narayan Govindarajan, Anantharaj Uruthiralingam, Carlos Manuel Rivas, Gordon Lo, Jeffrey Hirsch
  • Patent number: 11836795
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to implementation of a trading system, which may also be referred to as a trading system architecture, having improved performance which further assures transactional determinism under increasing processing transaction loads while providing improved trading opportunities, fault tolerance, low latency processing, high volume capacity, risk mitigation and market protections with minimal impact, as well as improved and equitable access to information and opportunities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.
    Inventors: Ari Studnitzer, Zachary Bonig, Ryan Eavy, Frank Kmiec, Scott Henderson
  • Patent number: 11823284
    Abstract: Methods and systems for processing trip-based insurance policies for vehicles. According to aspects, a trip-based insurance policy of a vehicle specifies an amount of trip units for insured vehicle travel and has an associated policy term. In certain cases, a customer may exhaust trip units before an expiration of the policy term. The methods and systems therefore enable the purchase of additional trip units so that the customer remains insured. In other cases, upon expiration of the policy term, an insurance provider may calculate an amount of unused trip units. The insurance provider may determine one or more types of credit that are based on the amount of unused trip units. The insurance provider may also apply the one or more types of credit to an account of the customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Gregory Hayward, Scott T. Christensen
  • Patent number: 11823283
    Abstract: Methods and systems for maintaining a distributed ledger and/or blockchain of transactions and/or events pertaining to autonomous vehicles and/or smart contracts. An enforcement server may receive indications of transactions and/or events generated by one or more autonomous vehicles. The transactions and/or events may include information relating to a trigger condition and/or a decision condition associated with one or more smart contracts. The enforcement server may route the transaction to the appropriate smart contract to determine whether a trigger condition has been satisfied. When a trigger condition is satisfied, the enforcement server may automatically perform an action to enforce the smart contract and/or update the distributed ledger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Matthew L. Floyd, Alvin Hon-Wai Yu, Antwuan Murphy, Brittney Benzio, Lindsi Brantley, Matthew S. Delaney, Matthew Vulich, Matthew S. Rodriguez, Neha Goel, Sabrina Collins, Annie Pudlo Murillo
  • Patent number: 11810084
    Abstract: When a merchant fails to provide payment service details, a system matches in real time information from a data processor with data from the payment service to allow matching a request from the payment system to a particular transaction. The matching system may use high speed buffers and hardware logic to rapidly match related data from different sources at speeds of thousands a second or more. This allows characterization of the transaction for recognition of current offers applicable to the transaction as well as generation of future offers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Raman Chinnappan, Raja Veeramani, Guyon Krug
  • Patent number: 11797990
    Abstract: Systems and methods of providing multimodal ATM accessibility are disclosed. In one embodiment, an exemplary computer-implemented method may comprise detecting a presence of a wireless device of a user in proximity to the ATM; establishing a communication session between the ATM and the wireless device based on a session key; instructing an app to provide a first graphical user interface (GUI) to the user; authenticating the user for access to the user account at the wireless device based at least on the entered account login information; and commencing, in response to successful authentication of the user, an ATM transaction session for the user by instructing the app to provide a second GUI to the user at the wireless device, the second GUI comprising one or more GUI elements operable by the user to perform one or more ATM transactions with the user account at the wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Elisa-Michelle Rodriguez, Kevin Osborn, Latika Gulati
  • Patent number: 11797954
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to digital check processing. A computing platform may receive, from a first recipient, a request to transfer a first portion of funds, corresponding to the first digital check image, to a second recipient account and a second portion of the funds, corresponding to the first digital check image, to a third recipient account. The computing platform may generate second and third digital check images representative of the first and second portions of the funds respectively. Based on successful validation of the second digital check image and the third digital check image, the computing platform may embed, into the second and third digital check images, a digital chip that indicates the successful validation. The computing platform may send, to the second recipient account and the third recipient account, the second and third digital check images respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: George Albero, Maharaj Mukherjee, Benjamin Moores
  • Patent number: 11776055
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to implementation of a trading system, which may also be referred to as a trading system architecture, having improved performance which further assures transactional determinism under increasing processing transaction loads while providing improved trading opportunities, fault tolerance, low latency processing, high volume capacity, risk mitigation and market protections with minimal impact, as well as improved and equitable access to information and opportunities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.
    Inventors: Ari Studnitzer, Zachary Bonig, Ryan Eavy, Frank Kmiec
  • Patent number: 11756035
    Abstract: Systems and methods for confirming and/or updating account information are disclosed. The systems and methods may calculate relocation scores based on transaction data and device location data. The relocation scores may be based on locations of the transactions and/or locations of a user device beyond a registered customer address. A relocation score can be calculated based on a quantity of transactions having transaction locations beyond a first predetermined distance from the customer address as determined by transaction location identifiers. A relocation score can be calculated based on an elapsed duration of time since a customer transaction was completed within the first predetermined distance from the customer address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Sara Rose Brodsky, Abhay Donthi, Joshua Edwards, Jennifer Kwok, Tania Cruz Morales, Jason Zwierzynski
  • Patent number: 11741463
    Abstract: The system may be configured to perform operations including receiving a transaction history comprising transaction information associated with a plurality of transactions for an entity; analyzing transaction information associated with a transaction of the plurality of transactions; and detecting a leakage event associated with the transaction. Detecting the leakage event may comprise determining a payment method for the transaction in response to the analyzing the transaction information; and comparing the payment method to a desired payment method, wherein the leakage event is detected in response to the payment method differing from the desired payment method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Ravi Bajpai, Shashank Chauhan, Srikanth Reddy Dorla, Tushar Gupta, Vishal Jain, Khushboo Kumar, Harmeet Sachdeva, Tarun Sehgal, Anshul Sharma, Sonal Surana, Dipti Verma
  • Patent number: 11734766
    Abstract: A system is engineered to facilitate calculation of predicted perils connected with a ridesharing vehicle. The system facilitates premium endorsement that provides higher coverage than is provided under conventional products and allows drivers to work directly with their personal lines insurer in reviewing their coverage and filing a claim in the event of an accident. The subject matter facilitates higher limits while including a post-policy period audit that allows a reconciliation of high-use or high-risk driving with appropriate retroactive rate adjustments. The system also facilitates retroactive rate adjustments that would compare a policyholder’s time/distance driven or collected telematics data (including time or distance driven in each driving period) to the group average or other historical underwriting data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: LIBERTY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Daniel Carey Bernstein, Christopher Tassone, Nicholas Grant
  • Patent number: 11734760
    Abstract: Systems and methods utilized to protect data. One method includes receiving a trade order and determining a current exchange rate for a plurality of different currency transactions. The method further includes determining a trade sequence, generating a first public and private key pair for the trade order and a second public and private key pair, and transmitting the public key of the first public and private key pair. The method further includes receiving a trade confirmation and updating an account balance entry on an overlay ledger. The method further includes broadcasting the trade order to a plurality of MBC verification nodes and in response to the plurality of MBC verification nodes verifying the trade order, updating a blockchain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventor: Ashish B. Kurani
  • Patent number: 11734708
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to the use of loyalty accounts, private label payment accounts, and general payment accounts using an electronic device with an electronic wallet. Various accounts are linked to the electronic device. In some examples, the electronic device is NFC-enabled. The electronic device may be used to provide loyalty account information and payment account information to a payment terminal, such as an NFC-enabled payment terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Marcel Van Os, Donald W. Pitschel, Gregg Suzuki, Lawrence Y. Yang, Peter D. Anton, Glen W. Steele, George R. Dicker