Patents Examined by Timothy T. Hsieh
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Patent number: 11941628Abstract: A method includes receiving a request to set verification settings for a payment aggregator computing system; determining an alias account number for a transaction account based on account information; transmitting a request to the payment aggregator computing system to store the alias account number instead of the account information; receiving a transaction request from the payment aggregator computing system; implementing a verification policy comprising a first sub-policy and a second sub-policy, based on the verification settings corresponding to the alias account number and a threshold transaction amount, including: determining a predetermined threshold of a monetary amount, determining a first sub-policy monetary amount, comparing the first sub-policy monetary amount to the predetermined threshold, determining that the first sub-policy monetary amount does not meet the predetermined threshold, implementing the second sub-policy, generating and transmitting an electronic message comprising a selectableType: GrantFiled: February 27, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: David Dietrich, Iris Duncan, Bryan Kroll, Paul Ku, Kristine Ing Kushner, David G. Lamb, Darrell L. Suen
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Patent number: 11900450Abstract: An approach for establishing and managing authentication circles is disclosed. The circles may be used to facilitate management of accounts, goals, or resources of one or more entities, or to provide an integrated view of the circumstances of, for example, family members or other interrelated persons. A person receiving assistance with the management of one or more accounts need not disclose authentication credentials to persons helping manage the accounts, enhancing security. Members may view members and access accounts administered by separate computing systems without needing credentials for each member, account, and/or computing system. The multiple accounts (which may be held at multiple institutions) need not be accessed individually by each member of the authentication circle, saving time and computing resources of users.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Balin K Brandt, Laura Fisher, Marie Jeanette Floyd, Katherine J. McGee, Teresa Lynn Rench, Sruthi Vangala
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Patent number: 11900476Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for code generation and tracking for automatic data synchronization in a data management system. A user associated with an entity, such as an employee of an organization, may purchase an item utilizing a payment instrument or card provided by the organization. In order to provide proper expense allocation, the organization may require receipt matching and storage per use of the payment instrument. An expense management system may provide digital code generation and output on a corresponding physical or digital receipt so that when the receipt is provided to the expense management system, the codes may be matched to backend data stored by the system. The receipts may be processed by extracting text data from an image of a receipt to determine the codes. The codes may then be used to search a database of codes to match to digital transaction data.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Brex Inc.Inventors: Pedro Franceschi, Ignacio Corderi
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Patent number: 11887086Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for controlling a function of an automated transaction machine (ATM). An example method includes receiving, by a query language processing (QLP) circuitry, a query command signal. The example method further includes generating, based on the query command signal and a tree-structured menu of an ATM, a set of control signals configured to instruct the ATM to perform the function by crawling a tree-structured menu of the ATM. Subsequently, the example method includes transmitting, to an ATM, the set of control signals to cause display of the advancement of the tree-structured menu. Additionally, the example method includes a text to speech (TTS) circuitry configured to receive a response signal and generate, based on the response signal, electronic information indicating a vocal representation of the response signal. The example method may further include transmitting to the ATM, the electronic information.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventor: Masoud Vakili
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Patent number: 11875337Abstract: A system, a method, and a program for providing a financial transaction by a virtual card number, a virtual card number generating device, and a virtual card number verifying device are provided. The method includes receiving, by a virtual card number verifying means, a virtual card number provided from a virtual card number generating means, extracting, by the virtual card number verifying means, a plurality of detailed codes included in the virtual card number, searching, by the virtual card number verifying means, for a storage location of a real card number based on the plurality of detailed codes, and proceeding, by the virtual card number verifying means, with the financial transaction or requesting, by the virtual card number verifying means, to proceed with the financial transaction using the real card number extracted from the storage location.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2020Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: SSenStone Inc.Inventor: Chang Hun Yoo
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Patent number: 11868984Abstract: A method for secured receipt and usage of payment credentials using a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) device includes: storing, in the COTS device, a secure application program and cryptographic keys; establishing, by the program, a secure communication channel with a back-end system inaccessible by any application program or component in the COTS device; exchanging attestation data between the program and the back-end system using the communication channel; receiving payment credentials from a payment card by a near field communication (NFC) interface in the COTS device; transmitting the payment credentials to the program by the NFC interface; enciphering, by the program, the payment credentials; and transmitting, by the program of the COTS device, the enciphered payment credentials to the back-end system using the secure communication channel.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATEDInventors: Alan Mushing, Fernando Lourenco, Bruce John Rutherford
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Patent number: 11830074Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems for automatically configuring financial product offerings. An example method includes: receiving, by a computer system, a graph model representing a plurality of permutations of definition provisions of a financial product; translating at least a subset of the graph model into definitions of a plurality of business objects; translating the definitions of the plurality of business objects into definitions of a plurality of services to be implemented by an offering of the financial product; receiving, via a user interface, a plurality of service configuration options; applying the plurality of service configuration options to the definitions of the plurality of services; and generating, based on the definitions of the plurality of services, service configuration data for the offering of the financial product.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2019Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of AmericaInventors: Pankaj Agrawal, Alexis S. Pecoraro, James G Rauscher, John V. Hintze, Daniel R. Hursh, Gregory B. Bahns, Edward J. Miller, Jr.
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Patent number: 11790453Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein that can detect use of a consumer electronics device and that can generate and offer insurance or protection plans that measure, account, and adjust for the use of the consumer electronics device and consumer tendencies while using the consumer electronics device.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2018Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Assurant, Inc.Inventors: Biju Nair, Rajiv K. Dwivedi, Sanida D. Bratt, Joseph Settimi, Chintan Shah
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Patent number: 11790455Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein that can detect use of a consumer electronics device and that can generate and offer insurance or protection plans that measure, account, and adjust for the use of the consumer electronics device and consumer tendencies while using the consumer electronics device.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2019Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Assurant, Inc.Inventors: Biju Nair, Rajiv K. Dwivedi, Sanida D. Bratt, Joseph Settimi, Chintan Shah
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Patent number: 11682006Abstract: A method of protecting transactions in a card processing system from fraud comprises issuing a payment card having a first PAN number, a second PAN number and at least one of a magnetic strip or a smart chip. The first PAN number is encoded in machine readable language on each of the at least one of the magnetic strip or the smart chip and not displayed in human readable form on the payment card. The second PAN number is displayed in human readable form on the payment card and is not encoded in machine readable language on either of the at least one of the magnetic strip or the smart chip. The first PAN number is valid in the card processing system only for card-must-be-present transactions and the second PAN number is valid in the card processing system only for card-not-present transactions.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2020Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: Digipay, LLCInventor: Lon Varns
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Patent number: 11593801Abstract: A method for implementing transactions includes receiving, by a first computing system, a transaction request from a second computing system, the transaction request indicating a first account number that is an alias of a transaction account having a second account number, and specifying a transaction. The method further includes determining the second account number by referencing a data structure that associates the first account number and the second account number, determining a verification policy associated with the second account number, and transmitting a verification challenge based on the verification policy. The method yet further includes receiving a response to the verification challenge, determining to authorize the transaction request based on the response to the verification challenge, and implementing the transaction involving the transaction account specified by the transaction request.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2018Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: David Dietrich, Iris Duncan, Bryan Kroll, Paul Ku, Kristine Ing Kushner, David G. Lamb, Darrell L. Suen
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Patent number: 11507947Abstract: Systems and methods for communication of electronic data in which one or more memory-coupled entity processors programmed to execute a stateless application that persists no data except configuration data in the stateless application and causes the at least one entity processor to receive data in a first format from a data source to which the stateless application executing on the at least one entity processor is loosely coupled; translate the received data to a second format for a data destination; and submit the data in the second format to the data destination to which the stateless application executing on the at least one entity processor is also loosely coupled.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2017Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: CITIBANK, N.A.Inventors: Alex McMahon, Paul Carey, Archana Loganathan, Wayne Crombie
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Patent number: 11494779Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for techniques for configuring a transaction funnel are described. A server may receive, from a provider, a first set of rules for providing a product or service of the provider. The server may transmit, to an entity of the product or service, the first set of rules received from the provider. The server may receive, from the entity, a second set of rules for providing the product or service, where the second set of rules may be based on the first set of rules. Using the configuration techniques, the server may generate a transaction funnel associated with providing the product or service.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2019Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: VIVINT, INC.Inventors: Ryan Gee, David Jones, Nicholas Rosenvall
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Patent number: 11481837Abstract: An approach for establishing and managing authentication circles is disclosed. The circles may be used to facilitate management of accounts, goals, or resources of one or more entities, or to provide an integrated view of the circumstances of, for example, family members or other interrelated persons. A person receiving assistance with the management of one or more accounts need not disclose authentication credentials to persons helping manage the accounts, enhancing security. Members may view members and access accounts administered by separate computing systems without needing credentials for each member, account, and/or computing system. The multiple accounts (which may be held at multiple institutions) need not be accessed individually by each member of the authentication circle, saving time and computing resources of users.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2019Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Balin K. Brandt, Laura Fisher, Marie Jeanette Floyd, Katherine J. McGee, Teresa Lynn Rench, Sruthi Vangala
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Patent number: 11455605Abstract: The invention relates to a method for processing transactional data representing a payment between a user (U) and a merchant (M), the method being implemented by an electronic device for processing transactions situated within a communications network. Such a method comprises: a step (100) for receiving a request for processing a transaction (ReqTT) coming from a merchant server (SerMar); a step (110) for obtaining a piece of data representing a payment parameter (ParPai) associated with said merchant server (SerMar); a step (140) for transmitting a request for processing payment (ReqTrtPai) to a payment server (SerPai).Type: GrantFiled: July 4, 2016Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: BANKS AND ACQUIRERS INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGInventors: Pierre Quentin, Michel Leger
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Patent number: 11423368Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for code generation and tracking for automatic data synchronization in a data management system. A user associated with an entity, such as an employee of an organization, may purchase an item utilizing a payment instrument or card provided by the organization. In order to provide proper expense allocation, the organization may require receipt matching and storage per use of the payment instrument. An expense management system may provide digital code generation and output on a corresponding physical or digital receipt so that when the receipt is provided to the expense management system, the codes may be matched to backend data stored by the system. The receipts may be processed by extracting text data from an image of a receipt to determine the codes. The codes may then be used to search a database of codes to match to digital transaction data.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2019Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: Brex Inc.Inventors: Pedro Franceschi, Ignacio Corderi
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Patent number: 11423409Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic transaction device includes: a relationship map storage unit that stores a relationship map (a participant relationship map) which is information indicating a relationship between a plurality of parties involved in a predetermined transaction; a policy requirement storage unit that stores policy requirements, which are requirements for the parties involved in the transaction, necessary for the closing of the transaction; an agreement policy calculation unit that generates an agreement policy which is a condition related to an approver of a transaction indicated by transaction data holding a predetermined transaction content, based upon the relationship map and the policy requirements; and an approval request transmission unit that transmits a predetermined approval request to a predetermined information processing device associated with an approver of a transaction specified based upon the generated agreement policy.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2019Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Yusuke Arai, Tatsuya Sato, Yosuke Himura
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Patent number: 11392925Abstract: A method for secured receipt and usage of payment credentials using a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) device includes: storing, in the COTS device, a secure application program and cryptographic keys; establishing, by the program, a secure communication channel with a back-end system inaccessible by any application program or component in the COTS device; exchanging attestation data between the program and the back-end system using the communication channel; receiving payment credentials from a payment card by a near field communication (NFC) interface in the COTS device; transmitting the payment credentials to the program by the NFC interface; enciphering, by the program, the payment credentials; and transmitting, by the program of the COTS device, the enciphered payment credentials to the back-end system using the secure communication channel.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2019Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATEDInventors: Alan Mushing, Fernando Lourenco, Bruce John Rutherford
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Patent number: 11379911Abstract: A system is provided for supporting cash currency exchange. The system included a server, a first client requesting cash-currency-exchange service, and at least one second client providing the cash-currency-exchange service. The first client sends an exchange-service request of cash currency to the server. The server receives the exchange-service request, obtains the at least one second client, and pushes an exchange-service item corresponding to the exchange-service request to the at least one second client. The second client receives the exchange-service item, and sends a confirmation response to the server. The server pushes information about the at least one second client sending the confirmation response to the first client; and the first client displays the obtained information about the second client, determines a second client as a target client, and triggers an eWallet of the first client to transfer a specified amount to an eWallet of the target client.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2018Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Shengpeng Chen, Hao He, Chao Guo, Huaxiao Liu
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Patent number: 11301838Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for facilitating network transactions through use of browser extensions. One exemplary method includes accessing a virtual location associated with an entity through a web browser and receiving, from a user, a selection of a browser extension associated with the web browser, when at least one product is designated by the user at the virtual location. The method also includes calling a first application programming interface (API) associated with a virtual account platform, based on the selection of the browser extension, requesting virtual account information for the user from the virtual account platform, and displaying the virtual account information to the user. The method further includes calling a second API associated with the entity, requesting a transaction amount for the at least one product, and submitting a request for a network transaction based on the received virtual account information and the received transaction amount.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2018Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATEDInventors: Emily Marie Thompson, Corey M. Hively