Patents Examined by Nakia Leffall-Allen
  • Patent number: 11574298
    Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for a payment information autofill mechanism that links a browser application with a user account such that a payment page at the browser application can be automatically filled based on the link. Specifically, the autofill mechanism establishes a link between a browser application running on a user device and a user account associated with the user that is stored at the server. When the user engages with the browser application to conduct a transaction on a merchant website, an application programming interface (API) call can be made to retrieve user virtual card information for automatically populating the payment data fields at the transaction page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Rachna Tibrewala, Darshankumar Bhadrasinh Desai, Dinesh Agnello Gomes
  • Patent number: 11568439
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for pre-scaling media content to facilitate audience measurement are disclosed. An example method includes encoding a media content sample in accordance with a first encoding configuration and playing the encoded sample. The example method also includes attempting to detect the codes in the sample, and computing a ratio between the codes encoded in the sample and the codes detected when the sample is played.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC
    Inventors: Brian Fuhrer, Morris Lee, Alexander Topchy
  • Patent number: 11551216
    Abstract: A system and method for implementation of transaction security on a distributed ledger-based Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) platform is provided. The system includes a message broker device which receives a transaction request associated with a transport service from a publisher node of a transportation provider. The message broker device routes, via an API gateway hosted on the message broker device, the transaction request to a subscriber node of the transportation provider. The API gateway validates the transaction request based on application of a set of security rules on the transaction request. The subscriber node is associated with a first node of a distributed ledger node that stores a first state object. The first state object includes transaction data associated with the transport service. The distributed ledger node receives the validated first transaction request from the API gateway, via the subscriber node and updates the transaction data based on the received transaction request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sadayoshi Murao
  • Patent number: 11521200
    Abstract: Some examples of the present disclosure relate to generating artificially intelligent entities represented on a blockchain using a non-fungible token (NFT). In one such example, a system can generate an NFT on a blockchain. The NFT can represent an artificially intelligent entity. The system can also generate a personality dataset on the blockchain, the personality dataset describing personality characteristics of the artificially intelligent entity. The system can then correlate the NFT to the personality dataset, thereby assigning the personality characteristics to the artificially intelligent entity. Once generated, the artificially intelligent entity may reside in a virtual ecosystem in which it can perform tasks and learn over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Inventor: Arif Khan
  • Patent number: 11514435
    Abstract: An encrypted payment message is received from a buyer relating to a transaction with a merchant. The payment message is parsed using a first parsing algorithm to obtain merchant identifying information. The merchant identifying information is associated with at least a second parsing algorithm or at least one settlement algorithm. The payment message is parsed using the second parsing algorithm to obtain payment information for the transaction. A first settlement algorithm is applied to the payment information to determine an adjusted interchange rate. The payment information including the adjusted interchange rate is submitted to a third party settlement processor on behalf of the merchant, using a payment algorithm. A second settlement algorithm applied to the payment information determines a buyer rebate which can be submitted to the settlement processor. A transaction result is reported to at least one of the merchant or the buyer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Boost Payment Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Dean Michael Leavitt, James Edward Lister
  • Patent number: 11501288
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to issuing tokens for identifiers associated with a resource provider account specific to the resource provider issuing the account. A resource provider processor system interfaces with a resource provider computer to validate account eligibility upon receiving a token request message. If the account is eligible for token generation, the resource provider processor system generates a universal identifier corresponding to the identifier associated with the resource provider account and returns the universal identifier to the token requestor. The token requestor may send a token request message to a token issuer for obtaining a token using the universal identifier. Accordingly, the universal account identifier can be used to provision a token into a digital wallet. Transactions using the token may be processed with the resource provider processor system acting as an account issuer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: VISA INTERNATIONAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION
    Inventors: Mary Taylor, Laura A. Long, Michael Mori, Rajat Das
  • Patent number: 11501297
    Abstract: A blockchain agnostic token network is described. In an example, a request to purchase a non-fungible token (NFT) minted on a blockchain from a seller is received. Based at least in part on context data associated with at least one of the user, the seller, or a digital asset associated with the NFT, a plurality of available blockchains is determined for holding the NFT. Information associated with the plurality of blockchains is surfaced and one of the plurality of blockchains is determined for holding the NFT. Based at least in part on the determined blockchain, the NFT is transferred to the determined blockchain and associated with a user account for subsequent viewing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Block, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Tai, Madeeha Ghori, Daniel Barrett
  • Patent number: 11494760
    Abstract: Some examples of the present disclosure relate to generating artificially intelligent entities represented on a blockchain using a non-fungible token (NFT). In one such example, a system can generate an NFT on a blockchain. The NFT can represent an artificially intelligent entity. The system can also generate a personality dataset on the blockchain, the personality dataset describing personality characteristics of the artificially intelligent entity. The system can then correlate the NFT to the personality dataset, thereby assigning the personality characteristics to the artificially intelligent entity. Once generated, the artificially intelligent entity may reside in a virtual ecosystem in which it can perform tasks and learn over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Inventor: Arif Khan
  • Patent number: 11494757
    Abstract: A device may include a processor, a wireless transceiver in communication with the processor, and a non-transitory memory. The memory may store instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform processing. The processing may include receiving a command configured to be executed by an external user device. The external user device and the user device may be members of a network of trust. The processing may include detecting, by the wireless transceiver, a plurality of member devices of the network of trust in communication range of the device. The processing may include sending, by the wireless transceiver, the command to each of the plurality of member devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Adam R. Koeppel, James Zarakas, Molly Johnson, Tyler Locke, Rajko Ilincic, Kevan Emmott
  • Patent number: 11488142
    Abstract: An encrypted payment message is received from a buyer relating to a transaction with a merchant. The encrypted payment message is parsed using a first parsing algorithm to obtain merchant identifying information. The encrypted payment message is further parsed using a second parsing algorithm associated with the merchant identifying information, to obtain at least some payment information for the transaction. The payment information is submitted to a third party settlement processor on behalf of the merchant, using a payment algorithm. The result of the transaction is reported to at least one of the merchant and the buyer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Boost Payment Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Dean Michael Leavitt, James Edward Lister
  • Patent number: 11488124
    Abstract: Systems and methods for secure purchasing are provided in which, at a merchant device, an invoice is generated comprising a remittance amount and a merchant identification. The invoice is associated with an invoice identification. The invoice is transmitted to a remote invoice database. At a consumer device, the invoice identification is received. A request that includes the invoice identification is transmitted to the invoice database. Information about the invoice is received from the invoice database including the remittance amount and merchant identification. The remittance amount, merchant identification, and a prompt to confirm the invoice are displayed. Responsive to receiving approval from the consumer, the invoice is transmitted to a remote account database comprising an account corresponding to the consumer. At a device associated with the remote account database, after receiving the approval of the invoice from the consumer device, the amount of the invoice is remitted to the merchant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: MONEY FLOW, LLC
    Inventors: Saadeh Hattar, Volodymyr Tanin
  • Patent number: 11481852
    Abstract: A system for generating and applying a secure token in a resource distribution network is provided. For example, a headend system generates a global token based on a time duration specified for multiple meters that are in communication with the headend system through at least a mesh network in a normal condition. The global token is associated with the time duration and is applicable to the multiple meters. The headend system causes the global token to be broadcast via a broadcast network. After receiving the global token, the meter verifies the global token and determines the time duration associated with the global token. The meter further connects premises associated with the meter to a resource distribution network for at least the time duration associated with the global token.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: LANDIS+GYR INNOVATIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Pushpesh Kumar Deshmukh
  • Patent number: 11475436
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a security code of an electronic stored value card are disclosed. A computer implemented method may include receiving a request for a security code of an electronic stored-value card, calculating the security code by a security code provider, providing a calculated security code of the electronic-stored value card in response to the request for a security code, and eliminating the calculated security code from all databases of the security code provider. A system may include a computer device of a provider of a security code of an electronic stored-value card, the computer device to receive a request for a security code of the electronic stored-value card, to calculate the security code, to provide the calculated security code in response to the request for a security code, and to eliminate the calculated security code from the computer device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Blackhawk Network, Inc.
    Inventors: Tushar Vaish, Manoj K. Kannembath
  • Patent number: 11468532
    Abstract: An offender management system (OMS) is a system designed to help process information related to inmates of a correctional facility. Information about an inmate's behavioral history, history in the legal system, and the inmate's financial account are all tracked in an OMS. OMS have been housed on the correctional facility premises, and are proprietary based on the needs of the correctional facility. The current disclosure is directed to an OMS that is housed remotely in data centers and has comprehensive functionality and customizability based on simple guided user interfaces (GUIs). This allows correctional facility administrators to easily customize the OMS to suit the needs of their facilities while removing the overhead required to maintain such systems. The customizability also allows the OMS to serve multiple jurisdictions at once. The centralized OMS contains many novel abilities such as workflow creation, real-time status monitoring of prison processes and accounting processing functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Global Tel*Link Corporation
    Inventors: Anthony Bambocci, John Lowry
  • Patent number: 11461774
    Abstract: Some examples of the present disclosure relate to generating artificially intelligent entities represented on a blockchain using a non-fungible token (NFT). In one such example, a system can generate an NFT on a blockchain. The NFT can represent an artificially intelligent entity. The system can also generate a personality dataset on the blockchain, the personality dataset describing personality characteristics of the artificially intelligent entity. The system can then correlate the NFT to the personality dataset, thereby assigning the personality characteristics to the artificially intelligent entity. Once generated, the artificially intelligent entity may reside in a virtual ecosystem in which it can perform tasks and learn over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Inventor: Arif Khan
  • Patent number: 11461782
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided that distinguish humans from computers. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method selects, from a storage device, a plurality of images. The method further generates a document comprising the plurality of images for the security challenge. At least one image included in the plurality of images is oriented for display in a different direction than the other images. The method further receives a selection of one or more images included in the plurality of images and determines whether the selected one or more images is oriented for display in a different direction than the other images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: William Randolph Zettler, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11461766
    Abstract: A mobile wallet computer server receives a fund access request from a user device. The fund access request is made in connection with a payment transaction. The mobile wallet server generates a tokenized card number, transmits the tokenized card number to the user device, and receives receive the tokenized card number from a card network computer system after having been routed from the user device via a merchant computer system and via an acquirer processor computer system. The mobile wallet computer server converts the tokenized card number to the actual credit card account number of the user and transmits the actual credit card account number to the card network computer system to process the payment transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ashish Bhoopen Kurani, Nikolai Stroke, Bipin Sahni, Stephen M. Ellis, Steve Puffer
  • Patent number: 11463578
    Abstract: Product or service information in the form of selected wireless e-commerce content is transmitted from a server to a mobile device, such as mobile telephone or personal digital assistant. The e-commerce content is transmitted either in response to an explicit user request for communication of the e-commerce content, or, in the alternative, is “pushed” to the mobile device as permitted by a user but in the absence of a specific request. The e-commerce content received at the mobile device is presented to a user by the mobile device in textual or graphical format in conjunction with an indication of a communication needed to consummate an e-commerce transaction. If the user desires to purchase the good or service represented by the e-commerce content, the user initiates the communication indicated by the e-commerce content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Overstock.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeanne De Sanctis, Steve Martin
  • Patent number: 11449019
    Abstract: Alarm issue management for a building automation system comprising a decentralized ledger as well as first, second, and third systems. The decentralized ledger has immutable transaction records validated and secured by a network of peer-to-peer nodes, and the ledger utilizes proof of work to synchronize the nodes. The first, second, and third systems access the transaction records of the ledger relating to a remediation type of a building automation system. The first system provides a first transaction record to the ledger relating to the remediation type. The second system reads the first transaction record of the ledger and provides a second transaction record to the ledger relating to the remediation type based on the first transaction record. The third system reads the first and second transaction records of the ledger and performs an audit of the first and second transaction records of the ledger relating to the remediation type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Siemens Industry Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph F. Vitaterna, Steven Tattleman
  • Patent number: 11436604
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the field of blockchain technology, disclose a method, apparatus, and storage medium for processing an ethereum-based falsified transaction, and solve the problem of the existing technologies failing to achieve validating falsification resistance of an ethereum consensus algorithm in engineering. The method includes: sending a falsified transaction to a preset node of in ethereum network, such that the preset node broadcasts a block including the falsified transaction to all nodes in the ethereum network; and determining whether the falsified transaction successfully attacks the ethereum network based on information on a chain maintained by a node in the ethereum network. The embodiments of the present disclosure apply to the process of validating the falsification attack resistance of the ethereum network consensus algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Siyuan Pan, Haodong Chen, Hongbin Mao, Yuxiao Song, Hang Zhou, Hui Wang