Patents by Inventor Adam E. Vancini
Adam E. Vancini has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20250190957Abstract: Disclosed is an approach that enables generation of parameterized digital tokens for unique tags in, for example, digital payment platforms. The unique tags may be agnostic to accounts, such that they do not require changes to administration or ownership of existing accounts, which may be held at different institutions.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2025Publication date: June 12, 2025Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Alan W. Hecht, Robert Jacobs, Adam E. Vancini
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Publication number: 20250166002Abstract: A system includes a first application programming interface (API) configured to receive an input via a user device to configure a rewards wallet account setting, and a second API configured to request data of the user from a plurality of rewards providers associated with the system, and receive an API response containing the data of the user from the plurality of rewards providers. The system includes a third API configured to convert the data of the user gathered from each of the plurality of rewards providers into a standardized rewards format where the standardized rewards format comprises standardized rewards points, aggregate the standardized rewards points, and allocate the aggregated standardized rewards points to one or more categories based on the rewards wallet account setting.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2022Publication date: May 22, 2025Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Alan W. Hecht, Robert Shipley Jacobs, Adam E. Vancini
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Patent number: 12229735Abstract: Disclosed is an approach that enables generation of parameterized digital tokens for unique tags in, for example, digital payment platforms. The unique tags may be agnostic to accounts, such that they do not require changes to administration or ownership of existing accounts, which may be held at different institutions.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Alan W. Hecht, Robert Jacobs, Adam E. Vancini
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Patent number: 11810087Abstract: Systems, methods for payment processing performed by one or more processors of a payment service computer system. One method includes receiving a fund transfer request from a recipient identifying a sender and a fund transfer amount. The method further includes identifying a financial institution associated with the sender. The method further includes determining the financial institution is not associated with the payment system. The method further includes selecting an authentication process for the recipient based on a level of risk. The method further includes performing the authentication process based on the level of risk, the authentication process including prompting the sender to provide information regarding the sender. The method further includes verifying accuracy of the information regarding the sender by scraping the information maintained by the financial institution using the access credentials and sending the fund transfer amount to the recipient.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2020Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Adam E. Vancini, Imran Haider, Sri Saravana Muthu
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Patent number: 10592877Abstract: A method and system for payment processing comprises receiving sender information, receiving a fund transfer request that includes an identifier for a recipient, accessing an information directory based on the identifier to obtain account information for the recipient, and sending funds according to the fund transfer request to the recipient. The identifier may be in the form of non-sensitive/publicly available information, such as an E-mail address, a phone number, or other information. The information directory can correlate the identifier with a recipient owned bank account. The fund transfer may occur from two accounts within a bank or may occur from bank accounts at different banks.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2015Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.Inventors: Adam E. Vancini, Imran Haider, Sri Saravana Muthu
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Patent number: 9928490Abstract: A method and system for payment processing comprises receiving sender information, receiving a fund transfer request that includes an identifier for a recipient, accessing an information directory based on the identifier to obtain account information for the recipient, and sending funds according to the fund transfer request to the recipient. The identifier may be in the form of non-sensitive/publicly available information, such as an E-mail address, a phone number, or other information. The information directory can correlate the identifier with a recipient owned bank account. The fund transfer may occur from two accounts within a bank or may occur from bank accounts at different banks.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2010Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Adam E. Vancini, Imran Haider, Sri Saravana Muthu
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Patent number: 8374961Abstract: A computer system implements a counterparty management module and a payment module for processing employee direct payroll deposits. The counterparty management module permits an employer to add employee bank accounts to a funds transfer system provided by a banking institution. The employee bank accounts are respectively associated with different employees of the employer. The employer has a bank account at the banking institution. The counterparty management module is accessible to the employer by way of an online banking area of a website of the banking institution. The counterparty management module also permits the employer to specify a payroll-related pay group that includes the employee bank accounts and to specify characteristics of the transferring of funds to the pay group as a whole. The payment module generates payment instructions for transferring funds from the employer bank account to the employee bank accounts.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2010Date of Patent: February 12, 2013Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank N.A.Inventors: Adam E. Vancini, Timothy J. Dailey, Candie L. Gann, Timothy L. Coffing, Nancy T. Riter, Ajay Vaishampayan, Aric B. Clark
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Publication number: 20100332386Abstract: A computer system implements a counterparty management module and a payment module for processing employee direct payroll deposits. The counterparty management module permits an employer to add employee bank accounts to a funds transfer system provided by a banking institution. The employee bank accounts are respectively associated with different employees of the employer. The employer has a bank account at the banking institution. The counterparty management module is accessible to the employer by way of an online banking area of a website of the banking institution. The counterparty management module also permits the employer to specify a payroll-related pay group that includes the employee bank accounts and to specify characteristics of the transferring of funds to the pay group as a whole. The payment module generates payment instructions for transferring funds from the employer bank account to the employee bank accounts.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2010Publication date: December 30, 2010Inventors: Adam E. Vancini, Timothy J. Dailey, Candie L. Gann, Timothy L. Coffing, Nancy T. Riter, Ajay Vaishampayan, Aric B. Clark
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Patent number: 7814017Abstract: The invention provides a payment interface that is both simple and powerful: one that supports multiple users per customer, with proper roles and financial controls; that hides the details of the underlying payment system(s) and automatically routes payments to the appropriate system; that allows the user to create, save, and schedule groups of payments, where those groups are independent of grouping capabilities of the underlying payment system(s); that provides notification of important events to users and payment recipients; and that automatically processes and takes proper action when it encounters exception conditions.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2006Date of Patent: October 12, 2010Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Adam E. Vancini, Timothy J. Dailey, Candie L. Gann, Timothy L. Coffing, Nancy T. Riter, Ajay Vaishampayan, Aric B. Clark