Patents Examined by Paul S Schwarzenberg
  • Patent number: 11354745
    Abstract: Device, program and method to generate a single portfolio assuming a plurality of targets as a specific objective of investment management. An investment management assistance server generates, based on input information, portfolio information for suggesting investment management for objective achievement set by a customer and includes: an objective displayer that displays predetermined objective information selectable by a customer through an input operation; an interview displayer that displays predetermined interview information to which the customer is allowed to respond through an input operation; and a portfolio generation/displayer that generates predetermined portfolio information based on the objective information and interview information which are selected and responded to through an input operation, and causing a customer terminal to display the predetermined portfolio information in a visually recognized manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tatsuo Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11328275
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses described herein relate to a method for delivering cash to a user. The method includes receiving a cash delivery request from a first user device of the user. The method includes generating a cash authentication code (CAC) for the cash delivery request to be verified by a cash dispenser machine. The method may include transmitting the cash delivery request and the CAC to a second user device of a driver. The method may include determining a route for the driver from a first location of the driver, to a second location of a cash dispenser machine, and to a third location of the customer to deliver the cash delivery request. The method may include instructing the cash dispenser machine to dispense cash in response to authenticating the second user device based on the CAC and determining that the first current location is at the second location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Darren M. Goetz, Ashish B. Kurani, JoAnn Mar, Dennis E. Montenegro, Joseph Ng, Damodar Raval, Lisa Schur
  • Patent number: 11315185
    Abstract: Systems and methods for offering and purchasing tokenized securities on a blockchain platform meeting current and future federal, state, and offering and holding entity rules and regulations. Tokenized securities purchased during or after the tokenized securities offering are tradable on a secondary market. The server computer of the tokenized securities provides an automated transfer capability for tokenized securities holders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: EQUITY SHIFT, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas Marshall Gordon, III, Gregory Frederick Bush
  • Patent number: 11308559
    Abstract: Systems and methods for offering and purchasing tokenized securities on a blockchain platform meeting current and future federal, state, and offering and holding entity rules and regulations. Tokenized securities purchased during or after the tokenized securities offering are tradable on a secondary market. The server computer of the tokenized securities provides an automated transfer capability for tokenized securities holders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: EQUITY SHIFT, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas Marshall Gordon, III, Joseph W. Forbes, Jr., Gregory Frederick Bush
  • Patent number: 11295301
    Abstract: A method for managing secure processing of electronic payment transactions includes receiving a request submitted by a merchant computing system for a security verifier. The security verifier is to be displayed on an electronic display associated with the merchant computing system. A set of security credentials received from a security service provider is measured against a security threshold. When the set of security credentials meets the security threshold, a uniform resource locator (“URL”) is transmitted to the merchant computing system. The URL identifies the security verifier to be retrieved and displayed at the electronic display associated with the merchant computing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Worldpay, LLC
    Inventor: Brant Peterson
  • Patent number: 11282055
    Abstract: A method for beacon device-based customer notifications is provided. The method is implemented by a computing device including a processor. The method includes receiving, from a beacon device, a beacon device advertisement that includes a universally unique identifier (UUID), a major identifier, and a minor identifier. The method also includes identifying, based on at least one of the UUID, the major identifier, and the minor identifier, that the beacon device is associated with an agent location, where the agent location is corresponds to a bill payment and money transfer facility. The method further includes generating a payment notification for display on the computing device, where the payment notification includes payment data and agent location data, receiving, from a user, an instruction to prepare to make a payment at the agent location, and causing the agent location to stage the payment for completion by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: MoneyGram International, Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph R. Braga
  • Patent number: 11257061
    Abstract: In response to detecting that a battery level of a first computing device is below a threshold level, a computer system determines that a second computing device is within a threshold distance of the first computing device. In response to the determining that the second computing device is within the threshold distance of the first computing device, the computer system creates a reference identifier (ID) and transmits information corresponding to the reference ID to the second computing device. In response to detecting a usage of the information corresponding to the reference ID by the second computing device, the computer system transmits a request for authentication information. In response to determining that authentication is successful, the computer system transmits a payment from an account associated with a user of the first computing device to an account associated with a recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventor: Jigar Rajnikant Gosalia
  • Patent number: 11257158
    Abstract: A real-time indicator of global trade can be generated. The real-time indicator provides a comprehensive indicator of the current global economic state by tracking current values for the available capacity for freight shipments as well as the volume of actual shipments. The capacity and volume can be tracked over multiple different transportation modes including sea, air, and rail. The real-time indicator is generated in real-time based on these current values. The real-time indicator can therefore provide investors, analysts, researchers, bankers, and the like with a reliable indicator of the current global economic state that is not heavily influenced by the biasing sentiments of individuals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Kuehne + Nagel International AG
    Inventor: Karl Gernandt
  • Patent number: 11257088
    Abstract: Risk scores are generated by systems that use features or inputs from the current transactions, some summary statistics like velocity and some statistics calculated in batch mode which traverse hierarchical classification levels of entities, including classified attribute levels of known transactions, to identify neighborhoods of related entities and related transactions. Corresponding records of transaction information are extracted from or are otherwise generated from neighborhoods of the related transactions associated with the defined neighborhoods of entities/transactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Jayaram N. M. Nanduri, Yuting Jia, Hang Xu, Anand Ravindra Oka, John Alan Beaver, Anton Khokhlov
  • Patent number: 11257052
    Abstract: Aspects for international remittances are disclosed herein. A sender initiates a request to remit funds to a recipient. The sender has an account with a first financial institution and the recipient has an account with a second financial institution. The request is communicated to specific bidders that have accounts with both the first and second financial institutions. The bidders submit bids for satisfying a request. When a bid is selected, funds are transferred from the sender's account with the first institution to the bidder's account with the first institution, and from the bidder's account with the second institution to the recipient's account with the second institution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Atiraj Kumar, Gaurav Wadhwa
  • Patent number: 11232444
    Abstract: A digital asset transaction method is implemented using a connected device connectable to the Internet and a closed device not connectable to the Internet and includes the following steps: the connected device displays a first check message according to a transaction data input thereto by a user; the connected device transmits the transaction data to the closed device after the user confirms the first check message matches the transaction data; the closed device displays a second check message according to the transaction data transmitted thereto by the connected device; the closed device transmits an authentication data to the connected device after the user confirms the second check message matches the transaction data; and the connected device executes the digital asset transaction after receiving the authentication data from the closed device. With the above method, the user can verify transaction content on different devices and decide whether to execute the transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: COOLBITX LTD.
    Inventors: Jay Zhuang, Shih Mai Ou
  • Patent number: 11216811
    Abstract: Methods and systems may be configured to verify proper installation of Internet Protocol (IP) connectable building automation devices by installers at remote sites. The installers may be a crowdsourced installers. A service provider may engage an installer to install one or more IP connectable building automation devices. To ensure verification that the one or more IP connectable building automation devices are installed properly, parameters or values based on data from installed IP connectable building automation devices may be provided to or determined by a blockchain network. The blockchain network may compare the parameters or values to thresholds and automatically provide an indication as to whether the parameters or values meet or exceed the thresholds (e.g., verification criteria).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Weilun Huang, Chunfu Li, Zhi Wang, Xing Yin, Chen Shi
  • Patent number: 11164254
    Abstract: Systems and methods for offering and purchasing tokenized securities on a blockchain platform meeting current and future federal, state, and offering and holding entity rules and regulations. Tokenized securities purchased during or after the tokenized securities offering are tradable on a secondary market. The server computer of the tokenized securities provides an automated transfer capability for tokenized securities holders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: EQUITY SHIFT, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas Marshall Gordon, III, Gregory Frederick Bush
  • Patent number: 11105557
    Abstract: A tank for a heat exchanger includes an extruded tank section having a generally constant extrusion profile extending in a longitudinal direction from a first tank end to a second tank end. A first planar end cap is joined to the extruded tank section near the first tank end, and a second planar end cap is joined to the extruded tank section near the second tank end. Together, the extruded tank section and first and second end caps can at least partially define an internal tank volume. The first and second planar end caps are both arranged at non-perpendicular angles to the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: MODINE MANUFACTURING COMPANY
    Inventors: Issa Dandan, Thomas Michael Best, Zachary Ouradnik
  • Patent number: 11094014
    Abstract: Systems and methods for offering and purchasing tokenized securities on a blockchain platform meeting current and future federal, state, and offering and holding entity rules and regulations. Tokenized securities purchased during or after the tokenized securities offering are tradable on a secondary market. The server computer of the tokenized securities provides an automated transfer capability for tokenized securities holders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: EQUITY SHIFT, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas Marshall Gordon, III, Joseph W. Forbes, Jr., Gregory Frederick Bush
  • Patent number: 11068991
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, a risk monitoring data store may contain a set of electronic data records, with each electronic data record being associated with a stream of sensor data received via a communication network from a remote set of sensor systems located at a risk monitoring site. A risk analytics platform computer may receive information associated with the sensor data in substantially real-time and analyze the received sensor data, using at least one risk analytics algorithm, to detect an abnormal pattern associated with a predicted elevated level of risk at the risk monitoring site. The risk analytics platform computer may also automatically transmit a result of the analysis to a risk operations platform. The risk operations platform may then implement an active risk mitigation adjustment at the risk monitoring site responsive to the result of the analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Hartford Fire Insurance Company
    Inventors: Joseph M. Przechocki, Evan Van Dam, James A. Madison
  • Patent number: 11055777
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer program products for communicating a first information node between a seller and a buyer of a production share of verifiable physical goods over a central service layer. A second information node is recorded in the data store covering the verifiable physical goods, wherein the second information node is made by a guarantor in communication with the central service layer. An identifier of the second information node is associated with the first information node over the central service layer. Market information regarding the production share is translated from the first information node and the second information node accessed from the data store using the identifier and integrating the market information regarding the production share into adjusted market information, and the market information regarding the production share and the adjusted market information is transmitted to devices connected over the central service layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: SANTERI HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Alexander Godell, Ralph Wayne Godell
  • Patent number: 11049190
    Abstract: A method and system to learn new forms to be incorporated into an electronic document preparation system, or to learn the behavior of existing systems, receive form data related to a new form having a plurality of data fields that expect data values based on specific functions. The method and system gather training set data including previously filled forms having completed data fields corresponding to the data fields of the new form. The method and system include multiple analysis modules that each generate candidate functions for providing data values for the data fields of the new form. The method and system evaluate the candidate functions from each analysis technique and select the candidate functions that are most accurate based on comparisons with the training set data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Saikat Mukherjee, Cem Unsal, William T. Laaser, Mritunjay Kumar, Anu Sreepathy, Per-Kristian Halvorsen
  • Patent number: 11030705
    Abstract: A method includes importing personal and financial information from an image of a third-party tax form associated with a taxpayer. The method further includes assigning, based at least in part on the personal and financial information, the taxpayer to one of a plurality of user classes. The user class of the taxpayer determines at least one subsequent interaction between the taxpayer and an online tax application. And the method includes using at least some of the personal and financial information to pre-populate one or more fields of an online tax return for the taxpayer. The online tax return is presented in a view in a graphical user interface displayed by the online tax application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Glen C. Pascual, Antonio J. Hernandez, Brea Anne Hylan, Joanne Magracia, Melissa Truong, Minh Hai Bach
  • Patent number: 10949818
    Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: registering a payment URL to a first user in response to receipt of registration data being received from a first user, wherein the payment URL is operative so that when the payment URL registered to the first user is activated by a second user, a web browsing session is commenced in which an electronic payment transaction is facilitated, the electronic payment transaction permitting electronic funds transfer from the second user to the first user; and examining location data of the second user in response to activation of the payment URL by the second user and determining one or more variable data values in dependence on the location data of the second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lisa Seacat Deluca, Michael J. Hudson