Patents by Inventor Brian Emerson Holcomb

Brian Emerson Holcomb 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).

  • Publication number: 20220300946
    Abstract: A method may include: receiving, from a client, a request to pay a supplier for a transaction using a virtual card account number; providing the virtual card account number to a payment provider information processing apparatus for the issuer; processing the transaction with a merchant acquirer information processing apparatus that settles the transaction with the issuer information processing apparatus over a payment network and the payment network without charging an interchange fee; sending payment for the transaction to the merchant acquirer information processing apparatus; sending the payment to the payment provider information processing apparatus that does not charge an acquisition fee; receiving the payment, deducting a discount rate from the payment, and depositing the payment minus the discount rate to a supplier merchant account; and issuing a payout from a supplier merchant account to a supplier bank account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Pritesh VELANKAR, Tu P. LE, Brian Emerson HOLCOMB, Christopher CLAUS
  • Publication number: 20200193415
    Abstract: Systems and methods for using integrated pay-on-demand virtual cards are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method for using pay-on-demand virtual payment cards may include: (1) receiving, from a buyer electronic device, a selection of one or more goods or services offered by a supplier in the online marketplace and an indication that the buyer will use a pay-on-demand virtual payment card to pay for the goods or services; (2) receiving, from the buyer electronic device or a backend for a financial institution associated with the pay-on-demand virtual payment card, information for the pay-on-demand virtual payment card; (3) associating the pay-on-demand virtual payment card with the goods or services in a transaction; (4) providing the transaction to the backend for the financial institution; and (5) receiving a reconciliation file for the transaction from the backend for the financial institution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Christopher Claus, Sebastian Guerra, Brian Emerson Holcomb, Tu P. Le