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: 11176524
    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: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventor: Ashish B. Kurani
  • Patent number: 11170351
    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: December 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ashish B. Kurani, Andrew Martinez
  • Patent number: 11113688
    Abstract: A method for provisioning a payment account to a mobile wallet includes receiving, by an initiating device associated with a financial institution, a request to provision a payment account to a mobile wallet. The method includes retrieving, by a computing system of the financial institution, account information for the payment account. The method includes receiving, by the initiating device, address information from a mobile device associated with the mobile wallet, the address information uniquely identifying the mobile wallet. The method includes initiating, by the initiating device, provisioning of the payment account to the mobile wallet by sending the address information and the account information to a token service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Peter Ho, Ashish B. Kurani, Brian M. Pearce, Steven E. Puffer
  • Patent number: 11106515
    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: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    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
  • Patent number: 11062302
    Abstract: A method for provisioning a payment account to a mobile wallet includes receiving a request to provision a payment token configured to facilitate a mobile wallet transaction. The method includes receiving a payment account configured for provision to a mobile wallet, generating the payment token responsive to the request to provision the payment token, associating the payment token with the payment account, receiving account information for the payment account, receiving address information from a mobile device associated with the mobile wallet, the address information uniquely identifying the mobile wallet, and provisioning the payment token associated with the payment account to the mobile wallet responsive to receiving the address information and the account information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Peter Ho, Ashish B. Kurani, Brian M. Pearce, Steven E. Puffer
  • Patent number: 11062278
    Abstract: Math based currency (“MBC”) credit is provided by a financial institution. A processor of the financial institution receives a credit request from a customer via a customer computing device. The request includes a requested amount of MBC and an identity of the customer. The processor compares the requested amount of MBC with an amount of credit available to the customer. The processor creates a customer private key and public key pair. The processor initiates a transfer of MBC totaling the requested amount of MBC to the customer private key and public key pair. The processor transmits the customer private key and public key pair associated with the requested amount of MBC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventor: Ashish B. Kurani
  • Patent number: 11037110
    Abstract: A mobile wallet computer system may send a token to a customer computing device to share the token with a recipient computer system in exchange for payment for a service or a good. The mobile wallet computer system may receive, the token, a recipient public key associated with a MBC account of the recipient, and a transaction amount. The mobile wallet computer system determines whether the recipient public key is registered with the mobile wallet computer system. The mobile wallet computer system updates a ledger that lists a MBC balance of the MBC account of the recipient and the ledger that lists the MBC balance of the customer or transmits, to MBC processing nodes, a request to transfer the amount of MBC in a pooled MBC account of a financial institution to the MBC account of the recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventor: Ashish B. Kurani
  • Patent number: 10997570
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of facilitating context-aware, vehicle-based mobile banking 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. Operating data relating to the vehicle is received. A context is determined based on the operating data. A task is selected based on the context. The task is to be performed by the user within the vehicle. The task relates to the financial account of the user. Performance of the task by the user is facilitated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ashish B. Kurani, Nikolai Stroke
  • Patent number: 10990964
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving a first input from a customer to establish an account at a financial institution; establishing the financial institution account for the customer based on registration information regarding the customer; generating a card number for a physical payment card and associating the card number with the financial institution account; receiving a customer-input PIN that establishes the PIN for the financial institution account after establishing the financial institution account and generating the card number; receiving a second input from the customer to provision the financial institution account to a mobile wallet application before creation of the physical payment card; provisioning the financial institution account to the mobile wallet application; and associating the card number with a status indicator, the status indicator associated with a digitally-active status that enables the customer to engage in mobile wallet transactions using the financial institution a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ashish B. Kurani, Jenny Y. Tao, Katherine M. Yee
  • Patent number: 10970715
    Abstract: A method for separately registering a user and a mobile device for use of a mobile wallet account includes registering, by a registration terminal of a mobile wallet provider, a user for use of the mobile wallet account, including assigning one or more user-provided settings to the mobile wallet account. The method also includes receiving, by a computing system of the mobile wallet provider, a request from a mobile device to register the mobile device for use as a mobile wallet, identifying, by the computing system, the mobile wallet account of the registered user based on the request, and registering, by the computing system, the mobile device for use of the identified mobile wallet account, including associating the one or more user-provided settings with use of the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank. N.A.
    Inventors: Ashish B. Kurani, Steven E. Puffer
  • Patent number: 10970684
    Abstract: Deposited math based currency (“MBC”) is received at a financial institution. A processor of the financial institution receives a deposit request from a customer via a computing device. The request includes a customer private key associated with an amount of MBC to be deposited. The processor creates a first private and public key pair to receive the amount of MBC to be deposited. The processor initiates a transaction in the amount of MBC to be deposited to the first private and public key pair from the customer based on the customer private key. The processor updates a ledger to indicate that the amount of MBC to be deposited was received and is associated with an account of the customer. The ledger includes information relating to a plurality of MBC accounts associated with a plurality of customers. The processor stores the first private and public key pair in a pooled database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventor: Ashish B. Kurani
  • Patent number: 10963972
    Abstract: Examples described herein relate to apparatuses and methods for providing automated advising services to a customer of a provider institution, including but not limited to a provider institution computing system determining a goal of the customer based on a user input of the customer, generating a set of sub-goals for the goal, determining a current status of the customer relating to the sub-goals and the goal, determining whether the current status of the customer meets any sub-goals and a projected status of the customer indicating whether the customer is projected to meet the goal, and sending a notification to a user device of the customer notifying the customer of a completion state of the goal based on at least one of the sub-goals met by the current status of the customer and whether the customer is projected to meet the goal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Nick Gambale, Ashish B. Kurani, Kayla Palm, Dana Roytenberg, Eric Vanderleek
  • Patent number: 10949838
    Abstract: A method for separately registering a user and a mobile device for use of a mobile wallet account includes registering, by a registration terminal of a mobile wallet provider, a user for use of the mobile wallet account, including assigning one or more user-provided settings to the mobile wallet account. The method also includes receiving, by a computing system of the mobile wallet provider, a request from a mobile device to register the mobile device for use as a mobile wallet, identifying, by the computing system, the mobile wallet account of the registered user based on the request, and registering, by the computing system, the mobile device for use of the identified mobile wallet account, including associating the one or more user-provided settings with use of the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ashish B. Kurani, Steven E. Puffer
  • Patent number: 10909509
    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: May 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventor: Ashish B. Kurani
  • Patent number: 10878408
    Abstract: A mobile wallet computing system associated with a mobile wallet database includes a mobile wallet circuit structured to present a mobile wallet interface to 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: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ashish B. Kurani, Braden More, Daniel Peltz, Steven E. Puffer
  • Patent number: 10872369
    Abstract: Systems and methods to provide an intelligent electronic communication to a consumer device includes a recommendation engine configured to access consumer data, determine an adverse account event based, at least in part, on the consumer data, correlate the consumer account to a consumer group based, at least in part, on the consumer data corresponding to the consumer group, generate an intelligent electronic communication comprising one or more ranked product recommendations based, at least in part, on at least one of the adverse account event or the consumer group, the one or more ranked product recommendations configured to include one or more unutilized product recommendations, determine whether to provide the intelligent electronic communication to a consumer device according to an intelligent delivery mode, and cause the intelligent electronic communication to be distributed to the consumer device in accordance with the intelligent delivery mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventor: Ashish B. Kurani
  • Publication number: 20200387948
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for providing customized in-store navigation includes receiving, by an in-store navigation computer system, a shopping list from a user of the in-store navigation computer system, wherein the shopping list includes at least one product available for purchase at a merchant location. The method also includes receiving product location information for the merchant location, generating a shopping route for the user at the merchant location based on the shopping list and the product location information, providing the shopping route as a navigation display to a mobile device of the user, receiving location information from the mobile device, and updating the navigation display on the mobile device based on the location information received from the mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Ashish B. Kurani, Nikolai Stroke
  • Patent number: 10853791
    Abstract: A mobile wallet computing system associated with a mobile wallet database includes a mobile wallet circuit structured to present a mobile wallet interface to 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: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Stephen M. Ellis, Ashish B. Kurani
  • Patent number: 10839376
    Abstract: A method for separately registering a user and a mobile device for use of a mobile wallet account includes registering, by a registration terminal of a mobile wallet provider, a user for use of the mobile wallet account, including assigning one or more user-provided settings to the mobile wallet account. The method also includes receiving, by a computing system of the mobile wallet provider, a request from a mobile device to register the mobile device for use as a mobile wallet, identifying, by the computing system, the mobile wallet account of the registered user based on the request, and registering, by the computing system, the mobile device for use of the identified mobile wallet account, including associating the one or more user-provided settings with use of the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ashish B. Kurani, Steven E. Puffer
  • Patent number: 10771251
    Abstract: A method includes verifying the identity of an individual. A virtual passport for the individual is created upon verifying the identity of the individual. The virtual passport uniquely identifies the individual. A public/private key pair associated with the individual is generated. The virtual passport is signed with the private key. The signed virtual passport is entered in a public block chain. The signed virtual passport may be retrieved from the public block chain. The authenticity of the signed virtual passport may be determined via the public key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ashish B. Kurani, Wayne Barakat, Martin Barrs, Dominik Vltavsky