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: 11847620
    Abstract: Embodiments include a method of performing a math based currency (“MBC”) transaction. The method includes receiving, from a recipient computer system, information regarding an MBC backed credit card account, information regarding a recipient account and an amount of funds to be transferred to the recipient account from the MBC backed credit card account. The method further includes verifying, by the financial institution computer system, that the amount of funds that are available in the MBC backed credit card account. In various embodiments the method includes updating, by the financial institution computer system, an overlay ledger to increase the balance owed by a customer that holds the MBC backed credit card account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventor: Ashish B. Kurani
  • Patent number: 11847621
    Abstract: Systems and methods for verifying a digital title of an asset transferred via a math-based currency transaction. The method includes receiving a digital title request regarding an asset, creating a digital title for the asset in a digital title database, receiving, from a financial institution computing system, an asset transfer request regarding the asset that is the subject of the math-based currency transaction, verifying that an identity of a seller in the math-based currency transaction matches the identity of the owner of the asset. Then, responsive to the verification that the identity of the seller in the math-based currency transaction matches the identity of the owner of the asset, the method includes transmitting, to the financial institution computing system, a positive title verification and updating the identity of the asset of the digital title for the asset to match an identity of a buyer in the math-based currency transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventor: Ashish B. Kurani
  • Publication number: 20230385828
    Abstract: A provider computer system can receive a request for payment of a bill issued by a third party biller. The provider computer system can generate a passcode. Generating the passcode can include transforming data into the passcode. The provider computer system can transmit the passcode. A transaction machine can provide a user interface to receive the passcode. The transaction machine can receive the passcode via the user interface. The transaction machine can transmit a passcode verification request to the provider computer system. The transaction machine can receive a passcode verification message from the provider computer system. The transaction machine can prompt, responsive to receiving the passcode verification message, a third party customer to provide payment for the bill. The transaction machine can receive a payment associated with the bill. The transaction machine can transmit a payment notification to the provider computer system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventor: Ashish B. Kurani
  • Publication number: 20230385787
    Abstract: A banking system of a financial institution maintains a plurality of customer accounts in math-based currency (“MBC”). The system includes a network interface configured to facilitate data transmission over a network. The system includes a ledger including information relating to the plurality of customer accounts associated with a plurality of customers. The system includes a processor configured to update information contained in the ledger relating to the plurality of customer accounts based on the occurrences of MBC transactions involving the plurality of customers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventor: Ashish B. Kurani
  • Patent number: 11829994
    Abstract: A mobile wallet computing system associated with a mobile wallet database includes a mobile wallet circuit structured to present a mobile wallet interface a mobile wallet user. The mobile wallet interface includes a first portion that includes a graphical depiction of a user payment vehicle associated with a financial institution, the first portion including a first interaction point that enables the user to initiate a sequence to engage in a mobile wallet transaction using the mobile wallet. The interface also includes a second portion that includes a second interaction point and a third interaction point, the second interaction point enabling the user to access a functionality enabling the user to indicate a transaction preference for a transaction with an entity other than the mobile wallet provider or financial institution, the third interaction point enabling the user to indicate a preference to initiate communications with the financial institution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ashish B. Kurani, Joseph Ng
  • Patent number: 11823224
    Abstract: Systems and methods for applying reward points from a rewards account to a transaction are disclosed. A method can include receiving a payment request from a merchant computer system for a transaction. The method can include authenticating the payment request by acquiring and using an encryption key transmitted by a financial institution computing system from a database that is associated with a payment account. The method may include determining the number of rewards points in the rewards account is not enough to cover the transaction. The method may include transmitting a partial authorization message to the merchant computer system including an approval amount. The method may include receiving a second payment request comprising a remaining balance of the transaction. The method may include identifying a secondary payment source to cover the remaining balance of the transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ashish B. Kurani, Steven E. Puffer
  • Patent number: 11823164
    Abstract: A method comprises receiving, by a provider institution computing system via a network, a cash level indicator from each of a plurality of customer payment systems, the customer payment systems receiving cash from customers of a plurality of stores. The method further comprises receiving, by the provider institution computing system via the network, a cash request from a user device of a user. The provider institution computing system selects one of the plurality of customer payment systems based on the cash level indicator and location data of a plurality of delivery agent devices of delivery agents. The method further comprises sending, by the provider institution computing system to a selected delivery agent device, a message comprising location data of the selected customer payment system, the selected delivery agent device being one of the plurality of delivery agent devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    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: 11823179
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a rewards payment form linked directly to a rewards account are described. The system can determine, based on a comparison of a location of a mobile device with a merchant location of a merchant, that the mobile device is at the merchant location. The system can determine that the merchant participates in a rewards promotion and can receive a transaction request associated with a rewards account and a cryptogram. The system can authenticate the transaction request by decrypting the cryptogram and can activate the rewards promotion based on the determination that the mobile device is at the merchant location and the determination that the merchant participates in the rewards promotion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ashish B. Kurani, Steven E. Puffer
  • Patent number: 11799851
    Abstract: A computer implemented method performed by an identity verification computing system includes generating a user-level token associated with a user-level profile. The method further includes receiving a card-based transaction message associated with a card-based transaction. The card-based transaction message includes a card information portion and a point-of-sale data portion. The user-level token is inserted into at least one of the card information portion or the point-of-sale data portion. The method further includes obtaining the user-level token from the received card-based transaction message, validating the user-level token responsive to receiving a validation confirmation from a token service provider, and transmitting an identity verification to the entity computing system responsive to validating the user-level token.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ashish B. Kurani, Kristine Ing Kushner, Brian M. Pearce, Steven E. Puffer, Nikolai Stroke, Paul Vittimberga, Young M. Yang
  • Patent number: 11797959
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses described herein relate to a method for delivering cash by an unmanned vehicle to a plurality of customers at different locations. The method includes receiving cash delivery requests from user devices of the plurality of customers via a communications network. The method includes determining a path for the unmanned vehicle from a current location of the unmanned vehicle to Global Position System (GPS) locations of the user devices of the plurality of customers. The method also includes instructing each of the plurality of compartments of a cash container of the unmanned vehicle to open in response to authenticating a corresponding customer of the plurality of customers or a corresponding user device of the user devices that generated a corresponding cash delivery request for which each of the plurality of compartments is storing cash.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    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: 11769153
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses described herein relate to a method for providing authentication with respect to a cash delivery request made by a customer using a customer user device of the customer. The method includes receiving at least one of security information or a first cash authentication code (CAC) from a cash dispenser machine. The cash dispenser machine obtains the security information or the first CAC from a first user device of a driver or the driver. The method includes authenticating the driver based on at least one of the security information or the first CAC. The method includes generating a second CAC. The method includes transmitting the second CAC to the first user device of the driver. The method includes authenticating the driver and the customer based on at least one of the security information or the second CAC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Darren M. Goetz, Ashish B. Kurani, JoAnn Mar, Dennis Montenegro, Joseph Ng, Damodar Raval, Lisa Schur
  • Publication number: 20230297981
    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: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Darren Goetz, Ashish B. Kurani, JoAnn Mar, Dennis MONTENEGRO, Joseph Ng, Damodar Raval, Lisa Schur
  • Publication number: 20230298100
    Abstract: Systems and methods utilized to protect data. One method includes receiving an exchange request and determining a current exchange rate for at least one different currency transaction. The method further includes determining an exchange sequence generating a first public and private key pair and a second public and private key pair. The method further includes receiving an exchange confirmation updating an account balance entry on an overlay ledger. The method further includes broadcasting the exchange request updating a blockchain associated with the exchange request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventor: Ashish B. Kurani
  • Patent number: 11763303
    Abstract: A method includes verifying the identity of an individual. The method further includes receiving non-financial data from the individual and generating a user-level profile. The user-level profiles include the non-financial data received from the individual. The method further includes generating a user-level token unique to the individual. The user-level token is associated with the generated user-level profile. The method also includes provisioning the user-level token to a device associated with the individual. The method further includes receiving an identity verification request comprising the user-level token, wherein the identity verification request is structured as a financial transaction card-originated message, validating the user-level token, and analyzing a context of the received user-level token to determine a relevant non-financial data element included in the non-financial information within the user-level profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ashish B. Kurani, Kristine Ing Kushner, Brian M. Pearce, Steven E. Puffer, Nikolai Stroke, Paul Vittimberga, Young M. Yang
  • Patent number: 11763337
    Abstract: A system for providing a third party engagement in a host property is provided. The system includes a user device structured to: provide an indication of an active user session associated with a host property, the host property communicatively coupled to a host property provider computing system; receive a third party engagement based on a trigger activated during the active user session, the trigger structured to generate the third party engagement; provide, via a graphical user interface comprising the host property, the third party engagement based on the trigger activated; and receive an indication of activation of the third party engagement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Lila Fakhraie, Jennifer Greene, Christopher J. Hirth, Ashish B. Kurani, Andrea Renee Leighton, Margot Lockwood-Stein, Ronald H. Yang, Young M. Yang
  • Publication number: 20230281580
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes authenticating, by one or more first processors of a provider computing system, a user of a vehicle with a financial account of the user where the vehicle is associated with the financial account, receiving vehicle data relating to the vehicle, transmitting application data to a vehicle computing system of the vehicle via a first network and based on the vehicle data where the vehicle computing system includes one or more second processors communicatively coupled to the provider computing system via the first network, transmitting, by the one or more second processors via a second network, the application data to the user device, and receiving, by the one or more first processors, an input provided from the user device based on the application data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ashish B. Kurani, Nikolai Stroke
  • Publication number: 20230274307
    Abstract: A method for providing a third party engagement in a host property application is provided. The method includes: receiving an indication of an authentication of a user from the host property application such that additional authentication information for a third party that provides a third party engagement specific to the user is not required; determining that the user device is at or near a location of the third party; receiving an indication of an active user session associated with the host property application while the user device is at or near the location of the third party; generating a third party engagement specific to the user and associated with the third party; and providing, via a graphical user interface presented by a display device, the third party engagement specific to the user during the same active user session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Lila Fakhraie, Jennifer Greene, Christopher J. Hirth, Ashish B. Kurani, Andrea Renee Leighton, Margot Lockwood-Stein, Ronald H. Yang, Young M. Yang
  • Publication number: 20230274277
    Abstract: A computing system includes an interface configured to communicate with an entity computing system associated with a merchant via a network, an identity database storing verified personal identifying information, a memory, and at least one processor configured to: determine whether an individual is associated with an existing user account; prompt the individual to create a user account; verify an identity of the individual using personal identifying information associated with the individual; receive non-financial information associated with the individual; generate a user-level profile having the non-financial information; generate a user-level token unique to the individual; transmit the user-level token to a device associated with the individual; receive an identity verification request having the user-level token; validate the user-level token; determine that the identity verification request includes contextual data; determine the non-financial information that is relevant to the contextual data; and tra
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ashish B. Kurani, Kristine Ing Kushner, Brian M. Pearce, Steven E. Puffer, Nikolai Stroke, Paul Vittimberga, Young M. Yang
  • Publication number: 20230274252
    Abstract: A computing system may include a network circuit configured to communicate with a third party computing device via a network, one or more interface elements (e.g., application programming interfaces and/or software development kits) providing account open functionality, and an account open circuit configured to: accept, via the interface elements, a set of user data and an account open request for opening a new account with the provider, where the set of user data is received from a user computing device of a user via a third party website or application; establish the new account by generating a set of account data associated with the new account without directing the user to the operating environment of a website or application of the provider; and transmit the set of account data to the third party computing device for use by the third party computing device in a transaction with the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Jennifer J. Caceres, Lila Fakhraie, Jennifer Greene, Christopher J. Hirth, Ashish B. Kurani, Andrea Renee Leighton, Margot Lockwood-Stein, Kumaran Perumal, Benjamin Soccorsy, Ronald H. Yang, Young M. Yang
  • Patent number: 11741470
    Abstract: A provider computer system can receive a request for payment of a bill issued by a third party biller. The provider computer system can generate a passcode. Generating the passcode can include transforming data into the passcode. The provider computer system can transmit the passcode. A transaction machine can provide a user interface to receive the passcode. The transaction machine can receive the passcode via the user interface. The transaction machine can transmit a passcode verification request to the provider computer system. The transaction machine can receive a passcode verification message from the provider computer system. The transaction machine can display, responsive to receiving the passcode verification message, payment information associated with the payment of the bill. The transaction machine can receive a payment associated with the bill. The transaction machine can transmit a payment notification to the provider computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventor: Ashish B. Kurani