Patents by Inventor Austin Walters

Austin Walters 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: 11930441
    Abstract: Aspects described herein may relate to systems and methods for automatically adjusting user device settings when a user attends an event or otherwise brings a user device into a context in which an automatic adjustment of settings is appropriate. By providing for automatic adjusting of user device settings, the systems and methods may achieve greater compliance with rules and other policies of airlines, performance venues, schools, and/or other entities associated with events and/or contexts in which user device settings should be adjusted. Aspects described herein may allow for automatic adjustment of user device settings without compromising a user's privacy, security, or control of a user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Jeremy Goodsitt, Vincent Pham, Austin Walters
  • Publication number: 20240080210
    Abstract: Methods and systems described herein relate to the creation of a digital repository of artificial intelligence models that allows users to determine their individual fairness metric. More specifically, the methods and systems provide this digital repository by storing it on a blockchain network and tracking any changes made to the model and/or its fairness metric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Samuel SHARPE, Galen RAFFERTY, Brian BARR, Austin WALTERS, Jeremy GOODSITT, Kenny BEAN
  • Publication number: 20240078545
    Abstract: A device may receive a preauthorization associated with missed transaction prevention for a transaction account of a user, wherein the missed transaction prevention involves preventing a missed transaction associated with merchant accounts of the user. The device may monitor a transaction log of the transaction account and identify a transaction pattern associated with a merchant account based on a plurality of historical transactions identified in the transaction log related to the merchant account. The device may determine that a historical transaction of the plurality of historical transactions is not designated for automatic execution and that an execution of an upcoming transaction corresponding to the plurality of historical transactions is not scheduled. The device may cause an account transaction associated with the upcoming transaction to be automatically executed before a transaction period expiration, associated with the merchant account, passes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Austin WALTERS, Jeremy GOODSITT, Galen RAFFERTY, Vincent PHAM, Anh TRUONG
  • Publication number: 20240080456
    Abstract: In some embodiments, gaze-tracking-based image downscaling for multi-party video communication may be provided. In some embodiments, a set of gaze locations may be received from a set of receiving devices during concurrent video communication sessions between the receiving devices and a sending device. Different collections of positions may be determined based on the gaze locations, and, for each such collection, a spatial indicator (e.g., a bounded region) may be determined. A first downscaled encoding of the source image (from the sending device) may be generated based on the first spatial indicator, and a second downscaled encoding of the source image may be generated based on the second spatial indicator, etc. The downscaled encodings may then be sent to the respective receiving devices during the concurrent video communication sessions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Austin WALTERS, Alvin HUA, Anh TRUONG, Vincent PHAM, Ernest KWAK, Galen RAFFERTY, Jeremy GOODSITT
  • Patent number: 11922745
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments include systems and methods for providing a secure physical storage system. The system may receive a request to register a first physical storage box from an entity including location information and security information. The request can be validated by comparing the security information to a predetermined security threshold. The location information associated with the first physical storage box can be recorded to a blockchain. The first registration information can be received from a first user device. The first physical storage box can be assigned to the first user device and a first identity token associated with the first physical storage box. The assignment information associated with the first physical storage box can be recorded to the blockchain. A first identity token can be received from the first user device. Instructions can be transmitted to the first physical storage box to transition from a locked to an unlocked state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Galen Rafferty, Jeremy Edward Goodsitt, Austin Walters, Christopher Wallace, Brian Barr, Grant Eden, Samuel Sharpe
  • Patent number: 11922476
    Abstract: Aspects described herein may relate to methods, systems, and apparatuses that provide new capabilities for recommending purchases to a user based on a new descriptor referred to as “purchase embeddings.” The purchase embedding may include a tuple in a new multi-dimensional search space for describing and tracking purchases of goods and services. Recommendations may be based on a distance between tuples in the search space, which provides a measure of similarity between items represented by the tuples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Kate Key, Vincent Pham, Jeremy Goodsitt, Austin Walters, Galen Rafferty, Anh Truong
  • Patent number: 11921895
    Abstract: Systems and methods of procuring real data items based on user affinity gauged via synthetic data items are disclosed. In one embodiment, an exemplary computer-implemented method may comprise: utilizing a trained machine learning model to generate a synthetic data item based on real user data; presenting the synthetic data item to those users; obtaining indications identifying user responses to the synthetic data item; obtaining user-defined control parameters from the users; configuring a user-defined control mechanism to share a portion of the real user data based thereon; obtaining a subset of the real user data based the user-defined control parameters; providing to a particular third-party data source at least one of: data regarding the synthetic data item, the at least one portion of the real user data, and the indications of the users; and then receiving a second real data item from the particular third-party data source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Galen Rafferty, Anh Truong, Jeremy Goodsitt, Austin Walters
  • Patent number: 11921757
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and apparatus for generating labels for k-means clusters. The method includes accessing a plurality of data records from a database repository, and storing the plurality of data records into at least one of primary or secondary memory associated with at least one computer processor performing the method, along with a cluster number for each data record. All data records having a same cluster number form a cluster, and each record has been categorized or designated a cluster number out of a total K number of clusters. The method includes for each of a plurality of classification features, performing cluster-based analysis for a first cluster with respect to a single feature to generate a single feature overlap score. The method includes sorting, grouping, and generating a naming label for the first cluster based on the predetermined number of features having the lowest overlap scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Watson, Reza Farivar, Austin Walters, Jeremy Goodsitt, Vincent Pham, Anh Truong, Galen Rafferty
  • Publication number: 20240070318
    Abstract: Systems as described herein may label data to preserve privacy. An annotation server may receive a document comprising a collection of text representing a plurality of confidential data from a first computing device. The annotation server may convert the document to a plurality of text embeddings. The annotation server may input the text embeddings into a machine learning model to generate a plurality of synthetic images, and receive a label for each of the plurality of synthetic images from a third-party labeler. Accordingly, the annotation server may send the confidential data and the corresponding labels to a second computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Anh Truong, Austin Walters, Jeremy Goodsitt, Vincent Pham, Reza Farivar, Galen Rafferty
  • Publication number: 20240071045
    Abstract: Methods and systems described herein relate to authenticating users-based on generating images that have modified features. More specifically, the methods and systems generate these images by processing existing training data to identify a common feature in existing photos that may be modified, and then modifying that feature with the use of generative adversarial networks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Jeremy GOODSITT, Galen RAFFERTY, Grant EDEN, Anh TRUONG, Austin WALTERS
  • Patent number: 11915367
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing encryption and decryption involving texture warping, comprising: obtaining a visual input; obtaining a private key; generating an encrypted visual representation (visual representation A) based on the private key and the visual input; determining at least one 3D object configured so that the private key is derivable when the visual representation A is mapped to a digital model of the at least one 3D object; transmitting the visual representation A to a second computing device associated with a second user; transmitting a representation of the digital model of the at least one 3D model to the second computing device; and instructing the second computing device so that the second computing device is configured to map the visual representation A to the digital model generated based on the representation of the digital model of the at least one 3D model to extract the private key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Jeremy Goodsitt, Reza Farivar, Austin Walters
  • Patent number: 11917511
    Abstract: In some implementations, a device may receive an activation signal transmitted by an activator device. The device may determine that a first signal pattern of the activation signal matches a second signal pattern associated with activating the Bluetooth capability of the device. The device may activate the Bluetooth capability of the device based on determining that the first signal pattern matches the second signal pattern. The device may communicate with a wireless communication device using the Bluetooth capability of the device based on activating the Bluetooth capability of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Jeremy Goodsitt, Austin Walters, Anh Truong, Ernest Kwak, Galen Rafferty, Vincent Pham
  • Publication number: 20240054029
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining neural network brittleness are disclosed. For example, the system may include one or more memory units storing instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. The operations may include receiving a modeling request comprising a preliminary model and a dataset. The operations may include determining a preliminary brittleness score of the preliminary model. The operations may include identifying a reference model and determining a reference brittleness score of the reference model. The operations may include comparing the preliminary brittleness score to the reference brittleness score and generating a preferred model based on the comparison. The operations may include providing the preferred model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Austin WALTERS, Vincent Pham, Galen Rafferty, Anh Truong, Mark Watson, Jeremy Goodsitt
  • Patent number: 11899772
    Abstract: Systems and methods for distorting CAPTCHA images with generative adversarial networks include an image distortion interface that can select an image record from a database, determine the size of the selected image, and apply an adversarial attack algorithm to create an array of pixels that is the same size as the selected image so that the majority of the pixels in the array are zero values and the remaining pixels in the array are in the red-green-blue value range. The image distortion interface can merge the array of pixels with the selected image to form a distorted image. A server can include a CAPTCHA test interface that can select a set of images having the same label, retrieve corresponding distorted images, and provide a CAPTCHA test using the distorted images. The CAPTCHA test can use distorted images with different applied adversarial attack algorithms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Vincent Pham, Anh Truong, Mark Watson, Reza Farivar, Fardin Abdi Taghi Abad, Jeremy Goodsitt, Austin Walters
  • Patent number: 11900389
    Abstract: Transaction cards, systems and methods for performing fraud detection at POS devices based on analysis of feature sets are disclosed. In one embodiment, an exemplary transaction card may comprise one or more sensors configured to collect pre-card-use sensor data regarding a user of the card, circuitry that assembles such data into feature sets and performs fraud detection, and data storage. According to some aspects, the fraud detection may include comparing user specific sensor data, collected for a current transaction, to a user-specific risk profile validation model to determine a risk score for the current transaction, and transmitting the risk score to a card transacting device when a card is presented during a transaction. In some implementations, the risk score may enable the card transacting device to evaluate a risk associated with accepting the transaction card to complete the attempted transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Austin Walters, Jeremy Goodsitt, Galen Rafferty
  • Patent number: 11900178
    Abstract: An exemplary system, method, and computer-accessible medium can include, for example, receiving an original dataset(s), receiving a synthetic dataset(s), training a model(s) using the original dataset(s) and the synthetic dataset(s), and evaluating the synthetic dataset(s) based on the training of the model(s). The model(s) can include a first model and a second model, and the first model can be trained using the original dataset(s) and the second model can be trained using the synthetic dataset(s). The synthetic dataset(s) can be evaluated by comparing first results from the training of the first model to second results from the training of the second model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Watson, Fardin Abdi Taghi Abad, Anh Truong, Kenneth Taylor, Reza Farivar, Jeremy Goodsitt, Austin Walters, Vincent Pham
  • Publication number: 20240046273
    Abstract: An exemplary system, method, and computer-accessible medium can include receiving first information related to a first transaction associated with a financial account, determining a first network coverage area associated with the first transaction, receiving second information related to a second transaction associated with the financial account, determining a second network coverage area associated with the second transaction, flagging the second transaction as potentially fraudulent based on the first network coverage area and the second network coverage area. The financial account can be a credit card account. The second transaction can be flagged if the first network coverage area and the second network coverage area do not overlap. The first network coverage area can be based on a coverage area for a first satellite and the second network coverage area can be based on the coverage area for a second satellite, where the first satellite can be different than the second satellite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Austin WALTERS, Jeremy GOODSITT
  • Publication number: 20240045941
    Abstract: In some implementations, a server may receive, from a user device, one or more credentials associated with a user. Accordingly, the server may transmit, to the user device, instructions for generating a user interface including a plurality of visual components based on authenticating the user with the one or more credentials. The server may detect, during a first interval, a lack of interaction with the user interface. Accordingly, the server may remove one of the plurality of visual components from the user interface based on the lack of interaction. Additionally, the server may detect, during a second interval, one or more interactions with the user interface and may update a similarity score associated with the user based on properties associated with the one or more interactions. Accordingly, the server may restore the visual component to the user interface based on the updated similarity score satisfying a similarity threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Austin WALTERS, Brian BARR, Anh TRUONG, Jeremy GOODSITT, Grant EDEN, Samuel SHARPE, Galen RAFFERTY, Christopher WALLACE
  • Publication number: 20240046248
    Abstract: In some implementations, a card for communicating with a front-end device may include a substrate and an audio generator at least partially embedded in the substrate and configured to generate audio waves. Additionally, the card may include a contact at least partially embedded in the substrate and configured to activate the audio generator and circuitry configured to process an incoming signal from the contact and to transmit an outgoing signal to the audio generator. Additionally, or alternatively, the card may include an output device in lieu of the audio generator. Accordingly, the circuitry may be configured to process an incoming signal from the contact and to transmit an outgoing signal to an audio generator via the output device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Galen RAFFERTY, Samuel SHARPE, Austin WALTERS
  • Patent number: 11893630
    Abstract: A method may include receiving financial information regarding a user; categorizing transaction information of the user based on the financial information; causing display of the categorized transaction information; receiving information regarding at least one financial preference and transaction preference of the user; determining using a trained machine learning model activities available to the user; calculating, for each of the one or more activities available to the user, an estimated influence on the at least one financial preference, causing display of the estimated influence on the at least one financial preference based on a user selected one of the one or more activities available to the user; filtering the one or more activities available to the user with a positive estimated influence to the at least one financial preference; and causing display of a recommendation of action relating to the one of the one or more activities available to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Austin Walters, Vincent Pham, Jeremy Goodsitt