Patents by Inventor Andrew Soong

Andrew Soong 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).

  • Patent number: 11954732
    Abstract: A system and method is disclosed for evaluating a plurality of cryptocurrencies, the method comprising monitoring and storing volatility data for a plurality of cryptocurrency exchanges; analyzing the stored volatility data to generate one or more risk forecasts indicating risks associated with purchasing cryptocurrency through each of the cryptocurrency exchanges; determining a number of transaction factors for purchasing cryptocurrencies and selecting a cryptocurrency based on the transaction factors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: MoneyGram International, Inc.
    Inventors: John McWilliams, Andrew Soong, James Johnson
  • Publication number: 20220129981
    Abstract: A system and method is disclosed for evaluating a plurality of cryptocurrencies, the method comprising monitoring and storing volatility data for a plurality of cryptocurrency exchanges; analyzing the stored volatility data to generate one or more risk forecasts indicating risks associated with purchasing cryptocurrency through each of the cryptocurrency exchanges; determining a number of transaction factors for purchasing cryptocurrencies and selecting a cryptocurrency based on the transaction factors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: John McWilliams, Andrew Soong, James Johnson
  • Publication number: 20190318424
    Abstract: Systems and methods for implementing blockchain-based money transfer transactions between a sending party and a receiving party are disclosed. The money transfer transactions may utilize one or more cryptocurrency transactions. The disclosed systems and methods may identify optimum cryptocurrencies and/or cryptocurrency exchanges to be used to facilitate the money transfer transactions, and may utilize aggregation techniques and/or forecasting techniques to more efficiently handle money transfer transactions. The disclosed systems and methods may also implement various authentication and identification techniques to improve the security and compliance of money transfer transactions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: John McWilliams, Andrew Soong, James Johnson
  • Patent number: 7359850
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a spelling and encoding method for ideographic symbols, such as Chinese characters. The spelling method can provide first and second components for identifying first and second groups of ideographic symbols, wherein the two groups can have at least one common ideographic symbol correlating with the two components. For example, the two components can be a Chinese Pinyin spelling and a Four Corner Numerical Index, respectively, which can each identify a group of Chinese characters and be combined to identify one or more characters. The spelling method can further provide a third component to differentiate a plurality of ideographic symbols common to the two groups to uniquely identify each common symbol. In one embodiment, an alphanumeric spelling can be provided to uniquely identify each ideographic symbol. The encoding method can encode various alphanumeric representations of the ideographic symbols by the 7-bit ASCII standard code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Inventors: David T. Chai, Sing H. Lin, Andrew A. Soong
  • Publication number: 20050080612
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a spelling and encoding method for ideographic symbols, such as Chinese characters. The spelling method can provide first and second components for identifying first and second groups of ideographic symbols, wherein the two groups can have at least one common ideographic symbol correlating with the two components. For example, the two components can be a Chinese Pinyin spelling and a Four Corner Numerical Index, respectively, which can each identify a group of Chinese characters and be combined to identify one or more characters. The spelling method can further provide a third component to differentiate a plurality of ideographic symbols common to the two groups to uniquely identify each common symbol. In one embodiment, an alphanumeric spelling can be provided to uniquely identify each ideographic symbol. The encoding method can encode various alphanumeric representations of the ideographic symbols by the 7-bit ASCII standard code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2003
    Publication date: April 14, 2005
    Inventors: David Chai, Sing Lin, Andrew Soong
  • Patent number: 5646986
    Abstract: In a network-based communication system, communication trunks are allocated based on a history of network use and global event calendar information relating to particular regions that the network system services. A trunk allocation database is used for controlling the normal day-to-day trunk allocations to assign the trunks among the various network services. A global event calendar database containing holiday and event information observed by various countries and regions is provided for dynamically re-allocating the trunk assignments for trunks servicing a particular country or region when a holiday or event for that particular region occurs. The global event calendar database also informationally provides network users calling a particular region with timely information pertaining to holidays or events in the particular country or region that the user has called.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1997
    Assignee: AT&T
    Inventors: Paramdeep Singh Sahni, Andrew A. Soong