Patents by Inventor Benjamin Schulte

Benjamin Schulte 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: 11762883
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes a system, method, and article of manufacture for generating an entity graph. The method may comprise determining a relationship between a first entity and a second entity based upon internal data, external data, and/or online data associated with the first entity, and generating the entity graph comprising at least two nodes and an edge connecting the at least two nodes. The method may further comprise, in various embodiments, tailoring marketing to the first entity based upon the entity graph, detecting fraud against the first entity based upon the entity graph, periodically updating the entity graph based upon new internal data and new online data, and/or adjusting the edge based upon a change in the relationship between the first entity and the second entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Abhijit Bose, Winnie Cheng, Anthony Mavromatis, Huiming Qu, Benjamin Schulte, Kendell Timmers, Venkat Varadachary, Wei Yin, Hao Zhou
  • Patent number: 10909553
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating an affinity graph are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method may include (1) receiving customer data for a plurality of customers and merchant data for a plurality of merchants; (2) generating an initial customer table for each customer from the customer data; (3) generating an initial merchant table for each merchant from the merchant data; (4) receiving transaction data from a plurality of sources; (5) enhancing the initial customer tables and the initial merchant tables; (7) associating each customer and each merchant with at least one attribute based on the enhanced customer tables and the enhanced merchant tables; (8) determining an attribute score for each attribute; and (9) determining an affinity for one of the plurality of customers based on the attribute score for an attribute that is common to the one customer and another one of the plurality of customers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
    Inventors: Benjamin Schulte, Gavin C. Michael, Abhijit Bose, Matthew Lightman, Vijay Pappu, John Maiden
  • Publication number: 20170228454
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes a system, method, and article of manufacture for generating an entity graph. The method may comprise determining a relationship between a first entity and a second entity based upon internal data, external data, and/or online data associated with the first entity, and generating the entity graph comprising at least two nodes and an edge connecting the at least two nodes. The method may further comprise, in various embodiments, tailoring marketing to the first entity based upon the entity graph, detecting fraud against the first entity based upon the entity graph, periodically updating the entity graph based upon new internal data and new online data, and/or adjusting the edge based upon a change in the relationship between the first entity and the second entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Abhijit Bose, Winnie Cheng, Anthony Mavromatis, Huiming Qu, Benjamin Schulte, Kendell Timmers, Venkat Varadachary, Wei Yin, Hao Zhou
  • Patent number: 9665661
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes a system, method, and article of manufacture for generating an entity graph. The method may comprise determining a relationship between a first entity and a second entity based upon internal data, external data, and/or online data associated with the first entity, and generating the entity graph comprising at least two nodes and an edge connecting the at least two nodes. The method may further comprise, in various embodiments, tailoring marketing to the first entity based upon the entity graph, detecting fraud against the first entity based upon the entity graph, periodically updating the entity graph based upon new internal data and new online data, and/or adjusting the edge based upon a change in the relationship between the first entity and the second entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMANY, INC.
    Inventors: Abhijit Bose, Winnie Cheng, Anthony Mavromatis, Huiming Qu, Benjamin Schulte, Kendell Timmers, Venkat Varadachary, Wei Yin, Hao Zhou
  • Patent number: 9195988
    Abstract: The method of processing an analysis cycle to determine interest merchants may include selecting a seed merchant relevant to a topic interest, identifying consumers that have completed a transaction with the seed merchant to generate a list of identified consumers, determining merchants visited by the identified consumers, scoring all the merchants based on network connectivity, activity, and merchant over-index, updating the seed merchant in response to the list of scored merchants relative to a scoring threshold, and scoring the list of identified consumers based on the number of distinct merchants in transaction and over-indexing. Additionally, the method may further comprise producing a list of updated interest merchants and a list of updated identified consumers, where the updated interest merchants and the updated identified consumers are relevant to the topic interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Terrence Fischer, Anthony Harry Mavromatis, Monique M. Navarro, Benjamin Schulte, Venkat Varadachary
  • Publication number: 20150294028
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes a system, method, and article of manufacture for generating an entity graph. The method may comprise determining a relationship between a first entity and a second entity based upon internal data, external data, and/or online data associated with the first entity, and generating the entity graph comprising at least two nodes and an edge connecting the at least two nodes. The method may further comprise, in various embodiments, tailoring marketing to the first entity based upon the entity graph, detecting fraud against the first entity based upon the entity graph, periodically updating the entity graph based upon new internal data and new online data, and/or adjusting the edge based upon a change in the relationship between the first entity and the second entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Applicant: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Abhijit Bose, Winnie Cheng, Anthony Mavromatis, Huiming Qu, Benjamin Schulte, Kendell Timmers, Venkat Varadachary, Wei Yin, Hao Zhou
  • Patent number: 9087088
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes a system, method, and article of manufacture for generating an entity graph. The method may comprise determining a relationship between a first entity and a second entity based upon internal data, external data, and/or online data associated with the first entity, and generating the entity graph comprising at least two nodes and an edge connecting the at least two nodes. The method may further comprise, in various embodiments, tailoring marketing to the first entity based upon the entity graph, detecting fraud against the first entity based upon the entity graph, periodically updating the entity graph based upon new internal data and new online data, and/or adjusting the edge based upon a change in the relationship between the first entity and the second entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Abhijit Bose, Winnie Cheng, Anthony Mavromatis, Huiming Qu, Benjamin Schulte, Kendell Timmers, Venkat Varadachary, Wei Yin, Hao Zhou
  • Publication number: 20130246124
    Abstract: The method of processing an analysis cycle to determine interest merchants may include selecting a seed merchant relevant to a topic interest, identifying consumers that have completed a transaction with the seed merchant to generate a list of identified consumers, determining merchants visited by the identified consumers, scoring all the merchants based on network connectivity, activity, and merchant over-index, updating the seed merchant in response to the list of scored merchants relative to a scoring threshold, and scoring the list of identified consumers based on the number of distinct merchants in transaction and over-indexing. Additionally, the method may further comprise producing a list of updated interest merchants and a list of updated identified consumers, where the updated interest merchants and the updated identified consumers are relevant to the topic interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Terrence Fischer, Anthony Harry Mavromatis, Monique M. Navarro, Benjamin Schulte, Venkat Varadachary