Patents Examined by Marla Hudson
  • Patent number: 11978124
    Abstract: A system and method for automatically detecting if a home alarm system is being used and/or actively monitored are disclosed. The system and method use data gathered from one or more sensors, including audio information from microphones. The audio information is analyzed using a machine learning system to determine if the alarm system is being regularly used and monitored. The system and method can also automatically update a policy holder's insurance policy to reflect whether or not an alarm system is being used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Kelly Q Baker, Sumita T. Jonak, Will Kerns Maney
  • Patent number: 11922504
    Abstract: An asset management system is disclosed where a plurality of financial databases may connect with and be in communication with an asset management tool. The asset management tool is able to create an individual spending plan (scheduled distributions) and matching fixed income investment portfolio for a user based on inputted parameters with automatic distributions from the portfolio consistent with the individual spending plan occurring with a high degree of certainty. The asset management tool may communicate with the plurality of financial databases to put the individual spending plan and matching portfolio into action and is able to calculate and communicate an optimized surplus investment as a means of self-insuring so that the predefined schedule of distributions is met with the effective certainty one would expect from an insured/guaranteed income product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: NISA Investment Advisors, LLC
    Inventors: William Patrick Marshall, Christopher Eric Goebel, Nicholas Frank Cangiani
  • Patent number: 11893635
    Abstract: The systems and methods described herein allow users to control access to regulated data of the user (stored in a secured third party database) through interaction on a mobile device (or other computing device), such as to provide a touch gesture on the mobile device that causes the users regulated data to be accessible to a third party. The regulated data may include credit data of the user, such as a credit report or credit file. Access rights to the regulated data may be provided in real-time (or near real-time) in response to a request for the data from a third party, for example. The system may allow a user to respond to an alert or notification that is automatically sent to the computing device of the user in response to a request for a secure regulated data of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: ConsumerInfo.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Thomas Olson, Nelson Yu, Roman Bercot, Michelle Felice-Steele
  • Patent number: 11868979
    Abstract: A platform and process for electronic payment processing using electronic communications from different communication channels or bands. The system and process can generate alerts using fraud detection and verify payment requests using historical data and pattern recognition. The system and process can categorize images and extract payment data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: BANK OF MONTREAL
    Inventors: Brian Chan, Kashif Arshad, Peter Hing-Cheong Poon, Vikram Pal
  • Patent number: 11823261
    Abstract: A process orchestration and dynamic data acquisition system may allow process flows to be flexible and to customer or product requirements based on rules obtained from a rule management system. The process orchestrator may be driven based on an updatable and dynamic set of business rules to allow for quick changes to the process flow. Through the business rules the process orchestrator retrieves and processes data necessary to the process based on a customer request and/or product or service provided. The process orchestrator provides dynamic data aggregation from both internal and external data sources, through calling re-useable processes instantiated by the process host system and continuously adapts the process flow to meet the unique needs of each request input and results returned from each dynamic process call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Moran Ludwig, Edward G. Connell, Kanaka Subramaniam Kunjithapatham, Partha Sarathi Dhar, Navneet Tyagi, Shashank Bajpai, Hirenkumar R. Patel, Daniel Lee Wadsworth, Amanda Jines, Alexander W. Flynn, Venugopal Ramini
  • Patent number: 11797971
    Abstract: A system, including: a non-transitory memory; and one or more hardware processors coupled to the non-transitory memory and configured to read instructions from the non-transitory memory to cause the system to perform operations including: determining a first physical location of a user; comparing the first physical location to data indicative of network availability; and in response to comparing the first physical location to data indicative of network availability, generating a first electronic token and a second electronic token for a mobile computing device associated with the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Adhish Nayanendu Vyas, Vidit Nayankumar Maniyar
  • Patent number: 11756124
    Abstract: A method implemented on an augmented reality (AR) device includes accessing a user's investment strategy and selecting a material object. The material object and investment controls are displayed on a display screen of the AR device. The user alters the investment strategy using the investment controls. Alternative replacement objects are generated based on changes that the user makes to his or her investment strategy. One or more replacement objects are projected onto the display to represent an alternative material object that the user can afford based on the changed investment strategy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventor: Chris Kalaboukis
  • Patent number: 11727409
    Abstract: A limited use temporary credit account is disclosed. The method includes displaying, on a display of a mobile device, a temporary credit account, the temporary credit account correlated with a newly approved non-integrated credit account, the temporary credit account including: a temporary account number; a temporary expiration date; and a temporary security code. Incorporating a time constraint into the temporary credit account displayed on the mobile device, the time constraint limiting an amount of time the temporary credit account is displayed on the mobile device and limiting an amount of time the temporary credit account is available for making a purchase. Integrating a credit limit reduction into the temporary credit account displayed on the mobile device, the credit limit reduction reducing an available credit on the temporary credit account to an amount less than a credit available on the newly approved non-integrated credit account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: BREAD FINANCIAL PAYMENTS, INC.
    Inventors: Timothy D. Pontious, Celeste Rechner
  • Patent number: 11720967
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining a product investment decision and risk assessment are provided in which a plurality of data is obtained in electronic form. Based on a subset of this data, a taxonomy of data is formed using a plurality of classification models. The taxonomy includes a plurality of classifications determined by the classification models. At least one classification includes a corresponding plurality of input variables in a plurality of variables. Based on the forming, a respective output is determined in accordance with a selection of a set of variables. The respective output is evaluated against a plurality of threshold criteria. If the respective output satisfies each threshold criterion is determined. Based on this determining, a product investment decision and risk assessment for the candidate subject is determined in accordance with the satisfaction of each threshold criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: THRV, LLC
    Inventor: James M Haynes, III
  • Patent number: 11715155
    Abstract: Examples described herein include systems, methods, instructions, and other implementations for data security with integrated installment payment systems. In one example, account security system receives a checkout communication that includes data describing a validated checkout system of a merchant system. A client token is transmitted in response to an authentication that the checkout communication is from the validated checkout system, and an account communication including the client token and secure client information is received from a client device. An installment payment communication associated with the secure transaction is received from a system other than a merchant system involved in the transaction. The secure transaction is then facilitated following receipt of the installment payment communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: SYNCHRONY BANK
    Inventors: Jonathan M. Schmidt, Viveka Vardhan Ravi, Tushar Divecha, Jennifer E. Muller, Taylor Young, Gregory Schultz, Seamus Sullivan, Prakash Kothandapani
  • Patent number: 11710198
    Abstract: Provided is a control method including: receiving, from first power equipment, first transaction data including, for example, transmitted power amount information indicating the amount of power transmitted to power accumulation equipment; obtaining, from the power accumulation equipment, received power information including, for example, received power amount information indicating the amount of power received from the first power equipment; verifying the first transaction data by referring to the received power information; executing a first consensus algorithm with second servers when the first transaction data is verified successfully; and recording a block including the first transaction data in a distributed ledger of a first server when the validity of the first transaction data is verified through the first consensus algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yuji Unagami, Hideki Matsushima
  • Patent number: 11687999
    Abstract: A rental self-service (“RSS”) computer system, including a processor and a memory, is provided. The processor is programmed to: (i) verify that a policyholder is eligible to receive a replacement rental; (ii) transmit a customized link to the eligible policyholder; (iii) receive an access request for access of a rental self-service portal, (iv) retrieve policyholder data using information extracted from the customized link; (v) pre-populate a portion of a searchable interface of the rental self-service portal using the retrieved policyholder data; (vi) cause rental vehicle data to be displayed to enable the policyholder to view available rental options and select a vehicle class; (vii) calculate a policyholder cost for renting a selected vehicle class; and (viii) cause to be displayed on the user device (a) the calculated policyholder cost and (b) an option to confirm the rental reservation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Josh Schumann, Itobore Odje, Cagatay Azkin, Scott Vermeyen, Kevin Lenz, Norma Musciotto, Denise Ferguson, Brian Miller, Chris Sharp, Andrea Foster, Ivan Hall, Tracey Herring, Steve Stought, Sanjay Sen, Matt Ackers, Tarikere Yunus Zareena Parveen, Michelle Adler, Eric Brown, Billy Simonovich, Jose Gonzalez
  • Patent number: 11663653
    Abstract: Method, system and computer program product for transaction evaluation based on a potential impact of the potential transaction on defined plans. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving at a financial analysis computer system specified interactions intercepted when a person uses a client computing device to identify a potential transaction, and the analysis computer system processing these interactions for determining a potential impact of said transaction on one or more defined goals of the person. Before the person commits to the transaction, the analysis computer system generates a client guidance signal based on this determining, and sends the client guidance signal to the client computing device to instruct that device to convey guidance to the specified about the transaction. The specified interactions received at the financial analysis computer system data may identify a transaction context and activity of the person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: K. Anne-Rivers Forcke, Dimitri Kanevsky, Walter S. Kuhnel, Elizabeth V. Woodward, Shunguo Yan
  • Patent number: 11562341
    Abstract: A selection of a fueling station item, graphically depicted on a display of a fuel dispenser and corresponding to an available fueling station product, can be received by at least one data processor of a fuel dispenser. A two dimensional barcode based on the selected fueling station item can be determined. The two dimensional barcode can be provided to the fuel dispenser display for graphical depiction on the fuel dispenser display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Wayne Fueling Systems LLC
    Inventors: Vinod Krishnappa, Om Prakash Gupta, Harish Veeravalli, Gautham Ramamurthy, Henry Fieglein
  • Patent number: 11521267
    Abstract: Some embodiments are directed to a resource allocation analysis system implemented via a back-end application computer server. A resource data store may contain electronic records associated with a set of resource types, each electronic record including an electronic record identifier and resource parameter. The back-end application computer server may receive, from the resource data store, information about a set of resource types to be analyzed, including the associated resource parameters. The computer server may then execute a differential evolutionary algorithm to optimize the set of resource types based on at least one non-linear constraint and generate resource analysis results. The back-end application computer server may, according to some embodiments, perform a resampling process that uses non-parameterized historical data, regression on at least one resource type, and moment matching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Edward C. Caputo, Garrett M. MacDonald
  • Patent number: 11508015
    Abstract: A system and method for automatically detecting if a home alarm system is being used and/or actively monitored are disclosed. The system and method use data gathered from one or more sensors, including audio information from microphones. The audio information is analyzed using a machine learning system to determine if the alarm system is being regularly used and monitored. The system and method can also automatically update a policy holder's insurance policy to reflect whether or not an alarm system is being used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Kelly Q. Baker, Sumita T. Jonak, Will Kerns Maney
  • Patent number: 11507955
    Abstract: Services for trust conveyances of entities can be provided and managed. In connection with a transaction between first and second devices, a trust management component (TMC) can indicate trust levels of entities associated with the devices with regard to the transaction and/or an action attempted by an entity. With regard to an action attempted by the first entity, the trust level of the first entity can be evaluated to determine whether it is high enough to allow the action to proceed or to have the second entity respond to the action accordingly. If it is not high enough, the second entity, using the second device, can request a trust conveyance from the first entity via the TMC. The TMC can adjust the respective trust levels based on the outcome(s) of the action(s) of the respective entities with regard to executing the transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: James Pratt, Eric Zavesky, Nigel Bradley, Timothy Innes
  • Patent number: 11494778
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for quickly and efficiently providing individual-level scores that are serve as more-accurate predictions of a target event. These predictions are made using a model that factors specific variables based on transaction attributes gathered from transaction data for the individual, which may be exclusive to certain entities. These individual-level scores can be updated and periodically uploaded to an entity (e.g., a reporting agency) that can utilize existing infrastructure to quickly provide these scores to any requesters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: VISA INTERNATIONAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION
    Inventors: Alexander Filatov, Elena Valetova, Fazluddin Iqbal Dawood, Charles Campbell, Ghanashyama Mahanty, Anthony Dell, Ilya Zabegaev
  • Patent number: 11481860
    Abstract: A system for increasing the betting level of profitability via a bet information advisor platform and methods of use, a computer platform having applications to select or identify Bet Information data sources, assign an Age consistency score to each Bet Information data source based on age of source assign a ROI score to each Bet Information data source for each match or game outcome based on profits earned or lost, assign or calculate an Overall Efficiency score for each Bet Information data sources based on Age consistency score and ROI grade/percentage score, utilize Bet Information data sources with an Overall Efficiency score greater than or equal to Threshold for current plays or bets, allocate x %/y %/z % plays or bets to Bet Information data sources 1×/2×/3× Threshold, track each losing positons and the Bet Information data sources associated therewith, assign an increased Risk Amount to the losing Bet Information data sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Aiya LLC
    Inventors: Samar Ayoub Said, Israel R J Dudley
  • Patent number: 11481743
    Abstract: A real-time electronic bill presentment and payment system of a bill presentment and payment system (BPPS) provider is exposed to at least one of a business financial institution and an accounting software provider via an API. The BPP provider facilitates the institution or software provider providing a real-time electronic bill presentment and payment mobile application to a business. The BPPS obtains, via the API, from the institution or software provider, registration information relevant to the business. The real-time system populates a biller directory database with the registration information. No action, other than the facilitating, is required by the BPPS provider for the institution or software provider to obtain the registration information. In some instances, provision is made for loss of connectivity between the institution or software provider and the business and/or for alerts to the business.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Ellen Moskowitz, Sebastien Galperti, Chhomthyda Chhuan, Sriram Iyer, Patricia Ryan