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: 11741442
    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: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventor: Ashish B. Kurani
  • Patent number: 11734760
    Abstract: Systems and methods utilized to protect data. One method includes receiving a trade order and determining a current exchange rate for a plurality of different currency transactions. The method further includes determining a trade sequence, generating a first public and private key pair for the trade order and a second public and private key pair, and transmitting the public key of the first public and private key pair. The method further includes receiving a trade confirmation and updating an account balance entry on an overlay ledger. The method further includes broadcasting the trade order to a plurality of MBC verification nodes and in response to the plurality of MBC verification nodes verifying the trade order, updating a blockchain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventor: Ashish B. Kurani
  • Publication number: 20230252455
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a provider computing system from an initiating device, an encrypted network return address of an user device that identifies a network address of the user device; receiving, by the provider computing system and from the user device, an encryption key configured to decrypt the encrypted network return address; decrypting, by the provider computing system, the encrypted network return address using the encryption key; and providing, by the provider computing system, a code to the user device based on the decrypted network return address by transmitting the code to the user device without going through the initiating device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Peter Ho, Ashish B. Kurani, Brian M. Pearce, Steven E. Puffer
  • Publication number: 20230245095
    Abstract: A method includes presenting an initial user interface to a user that includes a first field including a first graphical depiction of a first object associated with the user and a second field including a second graphical depiction. The method also includes receiving an indication of a user interaction with the first field, and dynamically updating the initial user interface responsive to determining that the user interaction is a user selection of a second object to create an updated user interface. The updated user interface includes an updated first field including a depiction of the second object, and an updated second field including a third graphical depiction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Sudipta N. Kitsis, Ashish B. Kurani, Steven E. Puffer
  • Publication number: 20230230070
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating card transactions via a mobile wallet on a user's mobile device are described. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to the use of codes with network tokens for validation during payment processing. The codes may be transmitted optically (e.g., by presenting a two-dimensional barcode or three-dimensional barcode on a display of the mobile device that is scanned by a POS terminal) or wirelessly (e.g., via near-field communication (“NFC”), Bluetooth®, Wi-Fi®, etc.). The mobile wallet is implemented on the user's mobile device (e.g., the user's smartphone) and is associated with a financial institution. The mobile wallet may utilize credit and debit cards issued by the financial institution or by another financial institution. Generally, the mobile wallet system utilizes host card emulation via a network-generated token that is processed by the network to complete the contemplated transaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventor: Ashish B. Kurani
  • Patent number: 11694173
    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: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Darren M. Goetz, Ashish B. Kurani, JoAnn Mar, Dennis Montenegro, Joseph Ng, Damodar Raval, Lisa Schur
  • Patent number: 11676126
    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: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: 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: 11669828
    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: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ashish B. Kurani, Joseph Ng
  • Patent number: 11657377
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes authenticating, by a processor of a financial institution computing system, a user of a vehicle with a financial account of the user. The vehicle is associated with the financial account and the user is physically located within the vehicle. Data relating to the vehicle is received. A task is selected based on the data. The task is to be performed by the user. Performance of the task by the user is facilitated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ashish B. Kurani, Nikolai Stroke
  • Patent number: 11631076
    Abstract: A method for provisioning a payment account to a mobile wallet on a mobile device includes receiving, by a provider computing system, an encrypted network return address of the mobile wallet that uniquely identifies a network address of the mobile wallet when the encrypted network return address is decrypted from an initiating device, receiving, by the provider computing system, an encryption key configured to decrypt the encrypted network return address, wherein the encryption key is not provided to the initiating device, decrypting, by the provider computing system, the encrypted network return address using the encryption key, and provisioning, by the provider computing system, a payment token associated with the payment account to the mobile wallet based on the decrypted network return address received from the initiating device by transmitting the payment token to the mobile device without going through the initiating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Peter Ho, Ashish B. Kurani, Brian M. Pearce, Steven E. Puffer
  • Patent number: 11625710
    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: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Sudipta N. Kitsis, Ashish B. Kurani, Steven E. Puffer
  • Patent number: 11587062
    Abstract: Systems and methods for bundling various functionalities and features into a mobile wallet are provided. A method includes: receiving an indication from a user to install a mobile wallet client application on a user device; receiving registration information to install the mobile wallet client application including information regarding a first transaction card associated with the user; determining that the first transaction card is not associated with a token while a second transaction card is associated with a token; registering the user for the mobile wallet client application, the mobile wallet client application configured to present the user with a mobile wallet interface, wherein the mobile wallet interface includes a first graphical depiction of the first transaction card; and updating the first graphical depiction of the mobile wallet interface to remove a depiction of a transaction feature for the first transaction card based on the transaction feature not being utilized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ashish B. Kurani, Braden More, Daniel Peltz, Steven E. Puffer
  • Publication number: 20230034907
    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: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventor: Ashish B. Kurani
  • Patent number: 11538025
    Abstract: A method includes receiving request to register for a mobile wallet from a user mobile device; determining that a user associated with the user mobile device has an account at a financial institution; identifying a subset of services from a plurality services commonly used by the group of mobile wallet users; generating user interface parameter instructions that cause presentation of mobile wallet interfaces specific to the identified subset of services; displaying a mobile wallet interface having a graphical depiction of at least one service from the identified subset of services; receiving an activity dataset for a mobile wallet session of the user; determining that the user has not interacted with the graphical depiction of the at least one service from the identified subset of services during the mobile wallet session of the user; and, updating the mobile wallet interface to remove the graphical depiction of the at least one service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Sudipta N. Kitsis, Ashish B. Kurani, Kimberly R. Nelson
  • Patent number: 11526861
    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 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    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: 11514423
    Abstract: A user device includes a digital payment application and a transactional keyboard client application communicatively coupled to the digital payment application. The transactional keyboard client application is structured to receive a user input associated with one or more keys of the transactional keyboard. The transactional keyboard client application activates a digital application feature of the digital payment application based on the user input associated with the one or more keys. Furthermore, the transactional keyboard client application initiates a digital transaction without accessing the digital payment application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventor: Ashish B. Kurani
  • Patent number: 11507935
    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 22, 2022
    Assignee: WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.
    Inventors: Stephen M. Ellis, Ashish B. Kurani, Steven E. Puffer
  • Patent number: 11501287
    Abstract: A method for registering and activating accounts includes: transmitting a first input from a user regarding opening an account at a financial institution; establishing a communication session based on exchanging encryption keys between the user device and the financial computing system; displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) comprising a request for a user verification; transmitting a received user verification to the financial computing system; updating the GUI to display a request to establish a personal identification number (PIN) for a physical payment card associated with the account; receiving the PIN from the user; transmitting a second input comprising the PIN and a request to provision the account to the user device; receiving a payment token associated with the account before the physical payment card associated with the account of the financial computing system is received by the user; and, storing the payment token for transactions via the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ashish B. Kurani, Jenny Y. Tao, Katherine M. Yee
  • Patent number: 11470079
    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 user-level profile is associated with a user and is unique to the user. The method includes receiving a request to provide an identity verification of a user via an entity computing system, the request comprising a card-based transaction message associated with a card-based transaction, the card-based transaction message comprising the user-level token. The method further includes accessing the user-level profile associated with the user-level token, obtaining the user-level token from the card-based transaction message, validating the user-level token, and transmitting an identity verification approval to the entity computing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    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: 11468413
    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: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventor: Ashish B. Kurani