Patents by Inventor Colin Usala

Colin Usala 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: 20240394696
    Abstract: A method and a system include receiving a request to process a transaction, identifying, by the messaging application, transactional data based on the request, the transactional data corresponding to a user profile associated with the client device in an entity graph, determining a first desensitized data item associated with the user profile being included in the transactional data, providing for display a first user interface of the messaging application including a first user-selectable element corresponding to a completion of the transaction, receiving an indication of user selection of the first user-selectable element, and transmitting the transactional data to a secured processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: Dylan Shane Eirinberg, Matthew Colin Grantham, Krish Jayaram, Patrick Mandia, Colin Usala, David Whyte
  • Patent number: 12073396
    Abstract: A method and a system include receiving a request to process a transaction, identifying, by the messaging application, transactional data based on the request, the transactional data corresponding to a user profile associated with the client device in an entity graph, determining a first desensitized data item associated with the user profile being included in the transactional data, providing for display a first user interface of the messaging application including a first user-selectable element corresponding to a completion of the transaction, receiving an indication of user selection of the first user-selectable element, and transmitting the transactional data to a secured processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Dylan Shane Eirinberg, Matthew Colin Grantham, Krish Jayaram, Patrick Mandia, Colin Usala, David Whyte
  • Publication number: 20230274267
    Abstract: A system to perform operations that include: executing an application at a client device; presenting a graphical user interface (GUI) associated with the application at the client device, the GUI including an icon to initiate a request for a payment to a merchant; receiving an input that selects the icon from the client device; accessing a user profile associated with the client device in response to the request to initiate the payment, the user profile comprising user profile data; generating a payment credential based on the user profile data from the user profile; authorizing the payment to the merchant based on the payment credetitial; executing the payment to the merchant at the client device, within the application, based on the authorizing the payment; and passing a payment token to the merchant responsive to the executing the payment to the merchant within the application, the payment token comprising a validation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Virgil L. Archer, III, Hao He, Allen Huang, Krish Jayaram, Deng Liu, Ngoan Nguyen, Bernardo Perez, Aung Win Thein, Khoi Tran, Colin Usala
  • Publication number: 20230061559
    Abstract: A method and a system include receiving a request to process a transaction, identifying, by the messaging application, transactional data based on the request, the transactional data corresponding to a user profile associated with the client device in an entity graph, determining a first desensitized data item associated with the user profile being included in the transactional data, providing for display a first user interface of the messaging application including a first user-selectable element corresponding to a completion of the transaction, receiving an indication of user selection of the first user-selectable element, and transmitting the transactional data to a secured processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Dylan Shane Eirinberg, Matthew Colin Grantham, Krish Jayaram, Patrick Mandia, Colin Usala, David Whyte
  • Patent number: 11531986
    Abstract: A method and a system include receiving a request to process a transaction, identifying, by the messaging application, transactional data based on the request, the transactional data corresponding to a user profile associated with the client device in an entity graph, determining a first desensitized data item associated with the user profile being included in the transactional data, providing for display a first user interface of the messaging application including a first user-selectable element corresponding to a completion of the transaction, receiving an indication of user selection of the first user-selectable element, and transmitting the transactional data to a secured processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Dylan Shane Eirinberg, Matthew COlin Grantham, Krish Jayaram, Patrick Mandia, Colin Usala, David Whyte
  • Publication number: 20220101309
    Abstract: A method and a system include receiving a request to process a transaction, identifying, by the messaging application, transactional data based on the request, the transactional data corresponding to a user profile associated with the client device in an entity graph, determining a first desensitized data item associated with the user profile being included in the transactional data, providing for display a first user interface of the messaging application including a first user-selectable element corresponding to a completion of the transaction, receiving an indication of user selection of the first user-selectable element, and transmitting the transactional data to a secured processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Dylan Shane Eirinberg, Matthew Colin Grantham, Krish Jayaram, Patrick Mandia, Colin Usala, David Whyte
  • Patent number: D947886
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Dylan Shane Eirinberg, Matthew Colin Grantham, Krish Jayaram, Patrick Mandia, Colin Usala, David Whyte