Patents by Inventor Ashish B. Kurani

Ashish B. Kurani 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: 12244583
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing access rights may include a first computing system that receives a request to link an enterprise account of the first computing system to a second computing system. The first computing system may authenticate a user, receive a selection of one or more access rights, and one or more accounts of the enterprise account, via an application interface of the second computing system, and generate an access token for transmission to a computing device of the user, where the access token identifies the one or more access rights and the one or more accounts. The first computing system may transmit the access token to the computing device, to provide the computing device access to the one or more accounts according to the one or more access rights, of the first computing system, via the second computing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ashish B. Kurani, Ranganathan Kanchi, Dinesh Arora, Greg J. Hansen, Imran Haider, Jesse Owens, Kiran Rapolu, Udaya Isampalli, James Christopher Noe
  • Publication number: 20250069067
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media to protect non-fungible tokens (NFTs) using a protection architecture. One method includes receiving an NFT, authenticating the NFT including authenticating or verifying the NFT using a key and authenticating the link of the NFT, and protecting the NPT including generating a public-private key pair, encapsulating the NFT within a control structure, updating an NFT account in an overlay ledger, generating and storing a cold storage object in a cold storage ledger, and broadcasting the NFT to a blockchain storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ashish B. Kurani, Dennis E. Montenegro
  • Publication number: 20250069049
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing notifications regarding a shared account may include a computing system which receives a request to form a shared account. The computing system may generate the shared account and a corresponding first model, transmit one or more messages, generate links between accounts and the shared account and second model(s) corresponding to second member(s). The computing system may receive a first input indicating a selection to initiate an inbound transfer, transmit a notification according to the first and second model(s), and receive a second input indicating a selection to initiate a matching inbound transfer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ashish B. Kurani, Alan W. Hecht, Muhammad Farukh Munir, Darius A. Miranda, Benjamin Taylor, Traci Nguyen, Kourtney Eidam, Wairnola Marria Rhodriquez
  • Publication number: 20250061439
    Abstract: Systems and methods for shared accounts may include a computing system which receives a request to form a shared account. The computing system may generate the shared account, transmit message(s) to second user device(s), generate link(s) between second accounts and the shared account, and establish a value associated with the shared account. The computing system may receive a selection to initiate a transfer, detect that the value satisfies a threshold criteria, identify an eligible member, and initiate a transfer based on a response from the eligible member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ashish B. Kurani, Alan W. Hecht, Muhammad Farukh Munir, Darius A. Miranda, Benjamin Taylor, Traci Nguyen, Kourtney Eidam, Wairnola Marria Rhodriguez
  • Publication number: 20250061432
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media utilized for transferring math based currency (“MBC”) at a financial institution. One method includes storing a plurality of private and public key pairs in a pooled database. The method further includes receiving, from a customer computing device of a customer, a request for an MBC address to transfer an amount of MBC to a recipient. The method further includes creating a first private and public key pair associated with a first MBC address. The method further includes providing, to the customer computing device, the first MBC address. The method further includes receiving, from an MBC wallet application, an MBC transaction request for the amount of MBC, the MBC transaction request comprising the first MBC address. The method further includes transferring the amount of MBC to the first MBC address and storing the first private and public key pair in the pooled database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventor: Ashish B. Kurani
  • Patent number: 12223505
    Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying a user to a merchant include creating a token for the user, the token identifying the user and user information of the user, where creating the token includes generating a string based on a user biometric and hashing the string to generate a hashed string, sending a notification indicating that a merchant requests the user information of the user, sending the token to a user device associated with the user where the token is configured to be activated via the user device before the token is selectively transmitted by the user device, receiving the token from a merchant computing system associated with a merchant, identifying the user and the user information based on the received token, receiving an indication from the user device, and withholding the user information from the merchant computing system based on the indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Jinee K. Ellis, Timothy R. Knowlton, Ashish B. Kurani, Steven E. Puffer
  • Publication number: 20250036643
    Abstract: At least one aspect of this disclosure is directed to method of scraping, by a first computing system, one or more first data sources of the first computing system, and one or more second data sources of one or more external computing systems, to compile a first dataset, standardizing, by the first computing system, the first dataset to generate a standardized dataset, applying, by the first computing system, a first artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to assign labels to data entries of the standardized dataset, compiling, by the first computing system, the standardized dataset having the labels assigned to the respective data entries in a database, receiving, by an AI interface of the first computing system, a query from a computing device, and generating, by the first computing system, a response to the query for delivering via the AI interface to the computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Shobha Duggirala, Ashish B. Kurani, Amruth Kumar, Antonio Iniguez, Nick Heim, Justin Robert Wolf
  • Publication number: 20250037121
    Abstract: Math-based currency (“MBC”) transactions are inherently quasi-anonymous. Systems and methods of registering customers with a financial institution for the purposes of opening a MBC account are described. During the registration process, the financial institution gathers and stores certain information relating to the customers having MBC accounts. This information may later be used to provide verification of MBC transactions to other parties involved in the MBC transactions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ashish B. Kurani, Andrew Martinez
  • Publication number: 20250016004
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media of template-based digital asset exchanges using a public key cryptography (PKC) framework. One method includes storing a plurality of exchange templates, and receiving a signed exchange request signed by a private key of a public and private key pair associated with a digital asset. The method further includes receiving an environmental dataset, and selecting, utilizing the environmental dataset, an exchange template of the plurality of exchange templates. The method further includes populating the plurality of fields of the selected exchange template based on the environmental dataset. The method further includes providing, to a plurality of user devices, a public key, updating a provider ledger, and updating a central ledger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ashish B. Kurani, Michael Knorr, Erik F. Nelson, Matthew Mullin Shepherd, Laura Marie Fontana
  • Patent number: 12182776
    Abstract: Math-based currency (“MBC”) transactions are inherently quasi-anonymous. Systems and methods of registering customers with a financial institution for the purposes of opening a MBC account are described. During the registration process, the financial institution gathers and stores certain information relating to the customers having MBC accounts. This information may later be used to provide verification of MBC transactions to other parties involved in the MBC transactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ashish B. Kurani, Andrew Martinez
  • Patent number: 12175454
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media to protect non-fungible tokens (NFTs) using a protection architecture. One method includes receiving an NFT, authenticating the NFT including authenticating or verifying the NFT using a key and authenticating the link of the NFT, and protecting the NFT including generating a public-private key pair, encapsulating the NFT within a control structure, updating an NFT account in an overlay ledger, generating and storing a cold storage object in a cold storage ledger, and broadcasting the NFT to a blockchain storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ashish B. Kurani, Dennis E. Montenegro
  • Publication number: 20240420110
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating communication between computing systems may include a device which establishes a connection between a first application executing on a first server and a second application executing on a second server. The first application and the second application may be linked to a common account holder. The first application may transmit, to the second application, at least a portion of data associated with the common account holder and accessible via the first application. The first application may generate populated form fields for a form associated with the first application using data from the second application and the data received by the second application from the first application. The first application may generate a new account for the common account holder using the populated form fields received from the second application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ashish B. Kurani, James C. Noe, Imran Haider, Frank Fehrenbach, Guruprasadh Ragothaman, Matthew C. Strader, Palani Munuswamy, Chandra Subramanian, George Atala, Mattie L. Morris, Braden More, Loftlon Worth, Nathan B. Coles
  • Publication number: 20240412175
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media of exchanging digital assets using a public key cryptography framework. One method includes encrypting at least one digital asset on an internal ledger and storing the encrypted at least one digital asset on an internal ledger. The method further includes receiving a signed exchange request signed by a first key corresponding with an encrypted digital asset on the internal ledger and providing, to an inter-provider ledger, a second key based on interfacing with the inter-provider ledger based on establishing a first data feed. The method further includes determining the signed exchange request was verified. The method further includes updating a central ledger by interfacing with of the central ledger via an application programming interface (API) based on establishing a second data feed and wherein at least one of a plurality of fields of the encrypted digital asset is a universal field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ashish B. Kurani, Michael Knorr, Erik F. Nelson, Matthew Mullin Shepherd, Laura Marie Fontana
  • Publication number: 20240412176
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media utilized for processing open loop math based currency (“MBC”) credit card transactions at a financial institution. One method includes receiving, via an open loop processing network, a request for an MBC transaction and generating a first code uniquely identifying the MBC transaction. The method further includes transmitting, via the open loop processing network, the first code to the customer computer device and receiving, from an acquirer/processor computer system via the open loop processing network, a second code including the first code and a public and private key pair. The method further includes determining that the public key is registered and updating a first entry of an overlay ledger and a second entry of the overlay ledger. The method further includes transmitting, via the open loop processing network, a credit guarantee and transmitting, via the open loop processing network, a receipt of the MBC transaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventor: Ashish B. Kurani
  • Publication number: 20240412199
    Abstract: A method for initiating a provisioning of a payment account to a mobile wallet includes generating, by a provider computing system on an initiating device, a user interface configured to initiate the provisioning of one or more payment accounts; receiving, by the provider computing system via the user interface, authentication information, wherein the authentication information authenticates a user associated with the mobile wallet; retrieving, by the provider computing system and based on the authentication information, account information associated with the user regarding one or more eligible payment accounts for provisioning; displaying, by the provider computing system via the user interface, a list of the one or more eligible payment accounts provisioning; and receiving, by the provider computing system via the user interface, a selection of the payment account from the list for provisioning to the mobile wallet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Peter Ho, Ashish B. Kurani, Brian M. Pearce, Steven E. Puffer
  • Publication number: 20240411757
    Abstract: At least one aspect of this disclosure is directed to method of scraping, by a first computing system, one or more first data sources of the first computing system, and one or more second data sources of one or more external computing systems, to compile a first dataset, standardizing, by the first computing system, the first dataset to generate a standardized dataset, applying, by the first computing system, a first artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to assign labels to data entries of the standardized dataset, compiling, by the first computing system, the standardized dataset having the labels assigned to the respective data entries in a database, receiving, by an AI interface of the first computing system, a query from a computing device, and generating, by the first computing system, a response to the query for delivering via the AI interface to the computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Shobha Duggirala, Ashish B. Kurani, Amruth Kumar, Antonio Iniguez, Nick Heim, Justin Robert Wolf
  • Patent number: 12165218
    Abstract: A provider institution computing system determining a goal of the customer of the provider institution, determining context information related to the goal, generating a first set of sub-goals for the goal of the customer, the first set of sub-goals defining a first group of steps required to be met by the customer to reach the goal, determining a current status of the customer relating to the first set of sub-goals and the goal, generating a second set of sub-goals for the goal of the customer corresponding to a first change in the context information, the second set of sub-goals being different than the first set of sub-goals, wherein the goal remains unchanged upon generating the second set of sub-goals, and responsive to determining that at least one transaction fails to conform with the goal, blocking, by the artificial intelligence circuit, the at least one transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Nick Gambale, Ashish B Kurani, Kayla Palm, Dana Roytenberg, Eric Vanderleek
  • Patent number: 12159175
    Abstract: A computing system includes a network circuit configured to communicate data over a network, an accounts database configured to store information pertaining to accounts associated with a plurality of customers, and a plurality of application programming interfaces (APIs). The computing system also includes an integration circuit configured to receive a plurality of indications from different third parties of third party preferences to integrate different ones of the functionalities into different third party services. The integration circuit is further configured to select different subsets of the plurality of APIs for the different third parties based on functionalities identified via the indications. The integration circuit is further configured to provide, via a first selected subset of the plurality of APIs, information associated with a first functionality to an external device to facilitate access to the first functionality via a first third party service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Lila Fakhraie, Jennifer Greene, Christopher J. Hirth, Ashish B. Kurani, Andrea Renee Leighton, Margot Lockwood-Stein, Benjamin Soccorsy, Ronald H. Yang, Young M. Yang
  • Publication number: 20240394517
    Abstract: Aspects of this technical solution can identify, based on a query, an entity and an object corresponding to the entity, obtain, via an artificial intelligence (AI) model, an entity object that identifies one or more aspects extrinsic to the entity and linked with the entity, obtain, via the AI model, a condition object that identifies one or more aspects extrinsic to the object and the entity, generate, via the AI model, an action object that identifies an action metric, the AI model receiving as input the entity object and the condition object, and cause, in response to the query and based on the action metric, execution of a transaction including the object and the entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ashish B. Kurani, Cleane Sakaguti, Eileen Holcomb, Shobha Duggirala
  • Patent number: 12154157
    Abstract: A method for providing an intelligent electronic communication to a consumer device using a recommendation engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventor: Ashish B. Kurani