Patents by Inventor Christopher T. Scholl

Christopher T. Scholl 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: 20240331029
    Abstract: An automatic name change computer includes a database and processor. An account information table includes a first record with a first account identifier. The processor receives an update file from a first server. The update file includes a second record including a second account identifier, a current legal name of a cardholder, and an updated legal name of the cardholder. Based on the account identifiers matching, the processor writes the updated legal name to the first record. The processor transmits a soft credit check inquiry to a second server and receives one or more accounts associated with the first account identifier. The processor presents a list of the accounts to a cardholder, receives a selection of one or more of the accounts, and writes the updated legal name to a cardholder update file. The processor then transmits the cardholder update file to an account provider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: Mastercard International Incorporated
    Inventors: Sarah Russell, Christopher T. Scholl
  • Publication number: 20240304316
    Abstract: A computer system for analyzing data using AI modeling tools to detect anomalous data associated with a person. The computer system includes at least one processor and an AI model. The at least one processor is programmed to receive person data associated with the person including payment transaction records, input the person data into the at least one AI model to generate one or more outputs including (i) identifying anomalous data of the person, (ii) identifying at least one present need of the person from the anomalous data, and (iii) outputting a recommendation for addressing the at least one present need and transmit a notification message to a caregiver computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Shawn Mehrhoff, Christopher T. Scholl, David Vorhies, James W. Barkhurst
  • Publication number: 20240265387
    Abstract: Methods and systems for management, payment, and real-time updating of travel itineraries using a blockchain includes: storing, in a blockchain, a plurality of smart contracts including funding transaction account data, payee data, an itinerary type, and itinerary details and configured to initiate a payment transaction from a first transaction account to a second transaction account upon fulfillment of criteria in the itinerary details; receiving event data including a conflict with the itinerary details of a smart contract; identifying alternative itinerary data for the smart contracts based on the respective itinerary details; generating a modified smart contract for the smart contracts based on the identified alternative itinerary data; and transmitting a new blockchain data entry that includes the generated modified smart contract for storing in the blockchain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventors: Shawn MEHRHOFF, Jaipal Singh KUMAWAT, Christopher T. SCHOLL
  • Publication number: 20240249306
    Abstract: A driver monitoring (DM) computing device for monitoring driving behavior of a driver in real-time is provided. The DM computing device detects a user computer device associated with a driver inside the vehicle. The DM computing device collects state data of the user computer device. The state data includes data as to a state of the user computer device during a currently occurring trip. The DM computing device collects vehicle operation data of the vehicle while the driver and the user computer device are inside the vehicle. The DM computing device compares the collected vehicle operation data and the state data of the user computer device to determine whether the user computer device was activated during the currently occurring trip. The DM computing device causes a driving reward to be applied to an account associated with the driver for inactivity of the user computer device during the currently occurring trip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Inventors: Christopher T. Scholl, David Vorhies, Regan E. Harmon, Shawn Mehrhoff
  • Patent number: 12047835
    Abstract: A transportation controller (TC) computing system for monitoring a user computing device location and triggering location-based events using geo-fencing is provided. The TC computing system includes at least one TC computing device configured to register a customer with a transportation controller (TC) service using registration data received from a user computing device associated with the customer. The TC computing device is also configured to receive, in response to the user computing device detecting a first geo-fence, first travel data associated with a trip of the customer. The TC computing device is further configured to validate the trip using the first travel data, receive, in response to the user computing device detecting a second geo-fence, second travel data associated with the trip of the customer, and determine a first transaction amount for the trip based on the first travel data and the second travel data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Shawn Mehrhoff, Madeline Mueller, Christopher T. Scholl
  • Patent number: 11989749
    Abstract: A driver scoring (DS) computing device for scoring driving activity for a driver in real-time is provided. The DS computing device includes at least one processor in communication with at least one memory, the at least one processor configured to: (i) receive sensor data about a driver in a vehicle; (ii) determine, from the sensor data, a driver activity including at least a duration for the activity; (iii) calculate a score for the determined activity, wherein the score depends on at least one of a type of activity and the duration of the activity; (iv) retrieve a driver profile associated with the driver from the at least one memory, the driver profile including at least one of user input preferences and a history of payment transactions; and (v) generate at least one merchant incentive based on the score and the driver profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Christopher T. Scholl, Regan E. Harmon
  • Patent number: 11978078
    Abstract: Described herein is a computing system for linking products and containers to cardholders. The computing system is configured to receive transaction data associated with a transaction carried out by a cardholder, the transaction data including an account identifier associated with the cardholder, a product identifier, and a container identifier associated with a product purchased in the transaction. The computing system also links the product identifier and the container identifier to the account identifier, and stores the linked product identifier, container identifier, and account identifier. The computing system receives, from a user device, the container identifier associated with the container received by a user associated with recycling the container, determines the account identifier linked to the container identifier associated with the product received by the user, and automatically provides a reward to the cardholder via the account identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORORATED
    Inventors: Shawn Mehrhoff, Christopher T. Scholl
  • Patent number: 11978074
    Abstract: A driver monitoring (DM) computing device for monitoring driving behavior of a driver in real-time is provided. The DM computing device detects a user computer device associated with a driver inside the vehicle. The DM computing device collects state data of the user computer device. The state data includes data as to a state of the user computer device during a currently occurring trip. The DM computing device collects vehicle operation data of the vehicle while the driver and the user computer device are inside the vehicle. The DM computing device compares the collected vehicle operation data and the state data of the user computer device to determine whether the user computer device was activated during the currently occurring trip. The DM computing device causes a driving reward to be applied to an account associated with the driver for inactivity of the user computer device during the currently occurring trip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Christopher T. Scholl, Regan E. Harmon
  • Publication number: 20240104532
    Abstract: A token management computing system for provisioning at least one secure payment token for use in payment transactions is provided. The token management computing system includes a token storage device in communication with a plurality of user computing devices each associated with a respective user, and a token management (“TM”) server. The TM server is programmed to receive a token request for at least one token, generate, upon receiving the token request, the at least one token, wherein the at least one token includes at least one of i) a prepaid token including prepaid funds, ii) multiple tokens each associated with a different user, and iii) a budgeting token associated with a plurality of virtual budget accounts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Christopher T. Scholl, David Vorhies, Shawn Mehrhoff
  • Publication number: 20240095735
    Abstract: Described is a computer system for creating a digital record of a physical item of value. The computer system includes a network computer device comprising at least one processor communicatively coupled to at least one memory and a distributed network of computer nodes each associated with a respective entity of a plurality of entities, each computer node comprising a camera and an optical character recognition (OCR) application executable thereon, each computer node is communicatively coupled to the network computer device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Shawn Mehrhoff, Matthew Wease, Christopher T. Scholl
  • Patent number: 11887187
    Abstract: A streamline banking system includes a customer kiosk having a photographic element and a processor. The processor is programmed to capture an image with the photographic element and determine that the captured image comprises an image of a machine-readable code. The processor decodes the machine-readable code and extracts customer financial account data therefrom. The customer financial account data is associated with one or more financial institutions. The processor retrieves information associated with one or more financial product offerings offered by the financial institutions. Each of the financial institutions is presented to a customer along with the respective financial accounts and the respective financial product offerings. The customer selects one or more of the financial accounts and the financial product offerings. The customer kiosk then transmits to the customer service computing system the customer selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Mastercard International Incorporated
    Inventors: William Raymond Bowie, Regan E. Harmon, Christopher T. Scholl
  • Publication number: 20230410119
    Abstract: A secondary authentication system and computer-implemented method for obtaining real-time cardholder authentication of a payment transaction associated with a cardholder's payment card includes a memory device for storing data and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory device. The processor is programmed to receive a payment authorization request message including a primary account number corresponding to a payment account of the cardholder for funding the payment transaction. In addition, the processor is programmed to determine whether the payment account requires secondary authentication by the cardholder for the payment transaction, and if, based on the determination, the payment account requires secondary authentication of the payment transaction, place the payment transaction on hold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: Mastercard International Incorporated
    Inventor: Christopher T. Scholl
  • Patent number: 11842328
    Abstract: A token management computing system for provisioning a payment token to a token storage device for a payment transaction is provided. The token management computing system includes a user computing device in communication with the token storage device and a token management server that includes at least one processor communicatively coupled to a memory device. The at least one processor is programmed to (i) receive, from the user computing device, a token request for a payment token, the request including a payment account number (PAN) selected from a digital wallet stored on the user computing device, and at least one token control, (ii) store token information including the PAN and the at least one token control, (iii) generate a single-use payment token, (iv) transmit the token to the user computing device, and (v) instruct the user computing device to transfer the token to the token storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Shawn Mehrhoff, Christopher T. Scholl
  • Patent number: 11783344
    Abstract: A secondary authentication system and computer-implemented method for obtaining real-time cardholder authentication of a payment transaction associated with a cardholder's payment card includes a memory device for storing data and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory device. The processor is programmed to receive a payment authorization request message including a primary account number corresponding to a payment account of the cardholder for funding the payment transaction. In addition, the processor is programmed to determine whether the payment account requires secondary authentication by the cardholder for the payment transaction, and if, based on the determination, the payment account requires secondary authentication of the payment transaction, place the payment transaction on hold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Mastercard International Incorporated
    Inventor: Christopher T. Scholl
  • Patent number: 11705023
    Abstract: A rollable payment card is shiftable between a flat configuration and a rolled configuration via a manual rolling process. The payment card comprises a verification element, a processor, an electronic display unit in communication with the processor, and a power element providing electrical power to the display unit. The electronic display unit includes an electronic display region configured to display an image. The electronic display region is manually rollable. The payment card in the flat configuration presents horizontally spaced apart first and second ends and vertically spaced apart top and bottom edges. The first end overlaps the second end during the course of the rolling process, with the first end being disposed arcuately past the second end when the payment card is in the rolled configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Mastercard International Incorporated
    Inventors: Shawn J. Mehrhoff, Christopher T. Scholl
  • Publication number: 20230206238
    Abstract: The disclosure describes systems and methods for authenticating a consumer performing a digital wallet transaction while wearing a face covering. A consumer authentication system includes an electronic circuit device having a wireless transmitter chip associated with a unique identifier (UID). The system receives a transaction request message, and in response, transmits an authentication request message to the consumer. The system then receives an authentication response message from the consumer. The authentication response message includes a biometric sample of a select physical feature of the consumer. The system determines that the biometric sample matches the biometric profile of the consumer above a predetermined lower threshold and then reads a unique identifier (UID) from the electronic circuit device. The system determines whether the read unique identifier (UID) matches the unique identifier (UID) of the new consumer account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Mastercard International Incorporated
    Inventors: Sheldon Jackson, Christopher T. Scholl, Aravind Mattaparthi
  • Publication number: 20230071323
    Abstract: A method for facilitating payment transactions includes receiving a transaction request for a payment transaction initiated at a payment terminal device using a transaction card of a user. A predefined category of the user is identified based on the transaction request and a service application is remotely activated in a first operation mode on a user device of the user such that the first operation mode is associated with the identified predefined category. Payment transaction messages associated with the payment transaction are communicated to the activated service application, which translates the payment transaction messages to a predefined message format. In response to the payment transaction messages, first authentication information is received from the activated service application such that the first authentication information is entered by the user in the predefined message format. The payment transaction is processed based on successful authentication of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Michael Martel Spratt, Rahul Deshpande, Akeda Hosten, Stewart Boling, Epher Mendoza, Adam Axe, Shawn Mehrhoff, Christopher T. Scholl, David Vorhies
  • Publication number: 20230020878
    Abstract: A streamline banking system includes a customer kiosk having a photographic element and a processor. The processor is programmed to capture an image with the photographic element and determine that the captured image comprises an image of a machine-readable code. The processor decodes the machine-readable code and extracts customer financial account data therefrom. The customer financial account data is associated with one or more financial institutions. The processor retrieves information associated with one or more financial product offerings offered by the financial institutions. Each of the financial institutions is presented to a customer along with the respective financial accounts and the respective financial product offerings. The customer selects one or more of the financial accounts and the financial product offerings. The customer kiosk then transmits to the customer service computing system the customer selection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: Mastercard International Incorporated
    Inventors: William Raymond Bowie, Regan E. Harmon, Christopher T. Scholl
  • Patent number: 11528143
    Abstract: An automated identity verification computing device, system and method receives an encrypted renewal request from a user computing device including a biometric value, a digital passport object identifier, and request data. The computing device, system and method retrieves trusted biometric data based on the digital passport object identifier from an identity database, determine a verification score based on the trusted biometric data and the biometric value, and generates a renewal package including the verification score, the digital passport object identifier, and the request data. The computing device, system and method transmit the renewal package to a sponsoring authority computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Matthew Wease, Regan E. Harmon, William Raymond Bowie, Christopher T. Scholl
  • Patent number: 11475513
    Abstract: A streamline banking system includes a customer kiosk having a photographic element and a processor. The processor is programmed to capture an image with the photographic element and determine that the captured image comprises an image of a machine-readable code. The processor decodes the machine-readable code and extracts customer financial account data therefrom. The customer financial account data is associated with one or more financial institutions. The processor retrieves information associated with one or more financial product offerings offered by the financial institutions. Each of the financial institutions is presented to a customer along with the respective financial accounts and the respective financial product offerings. The customer selects one or more of the financial accounts and the financial product offerings. The customer kiosk then transmits to the customer service computing system the customer selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Mastercard International Incorporated
    Inventors: William Raymond Bowie, Regan E. Harmon, Christopher T. Scholl