Patents by Inventor Darrell F. Stanfield

Darrell F. Stanfield 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).

  • Merchant bill pay
    Patent number: 8700527
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods and computer program products for transmitting, via an intermediary system, a payment request from a payment requestor to a customer. In some embodiments, a method includes: (a) receiving, at an intermediary computing device, the payment request from a source system, wherein the payment request includes a payment amount and an alias associated with a payment recipient, (b) in response to receiving the payment request, determining, via a computing device processor, whether the payment recipient is a registered payment recipient based on the alias, and (c) in response to determining the payment recipient is a registered payment recipient based on the alias, communicating, via the intermediary computing device, the payment request to the payment recipient based on the payment recipient being the registered payment recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Mark C. Dolphin, David M. Grigg, Michael W. Upton, Darrell F. Stanfield, Darrell Johnsrud
  • MERCHANT BILL PAY
    Publication number: 20130018785
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods and computer program products for transmitting, via an intermediary system, a payment request from a payment requestor to a customer. In some embodiments, a method includes: (a) receiving, at an intermediary computing device, the payment request from a source system, wherein the payment request includes a payment amount and an alias associated with a payment recipient, (b) in response to receiving the payment request, determining, via a computing device processor, whether the payment recipient is a registered payment recipient based on the alias, and (c) in response to determining the payment recipient is a registered payment recipient based on the alias, communicating, via the intermediary computing device, the payment request to the payment recipient based on the payment recipient being the registered payment recipient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 1, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mark C. Dolphin, David M. Grigg, Michael W. Upton, Darrell F. Stanfield, Darrell Johnsrud