Patents by Inventor Dennis A. Kettler

Dennis A. Kettler 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: 20240127273
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for tracking consumer spend behavior to predict attrition. One method includes: receiving past transaction data related to a plurality of past payment transactions of a consumer; receiving environmental and/or behavioral data associated with each of the past payment transactions of the consumer; determining a spend behavior model of the consumer; subsequent to determining the spend behavior model of the consumer, receiving transaction data related to one or more current payment transactions of the consumer; receiving environmental and/or behavioral data associated with the one or more current payment transactions; determining, based on an analysis of the current transaction data and environmental and/or behavioral data associated with each of the current payment transactions, a current spend behavior of the consumer; and determining, based on a comparison of the current spend behavior with the spend behavior model, the likelihood of an attrition of the current spend behavior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Brent BADGER, Dennis KETTLER
  • Publication number: 20240112218
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for attributing payment vehicle purchase events to previous activity of a purchaser. One method comprises: receiving purchase information associated with a purchase event by a purchaser; comparing the received purchase information to a profile data store to identify a purchaser profile associated with the purchaser, the profile data store comprising a plurality of purchaser profiles, wherein each purchaser profile comprises payment vehicle data and a tracking element; determining the tracking element of the identified purchaser profile; identifying one or more activities of the purchaser using the tracking element of the identified purchaser profile; for each of the identified one or more activities, assessing the strength of attributing the purchase event to the activity, using environmental and/or behavioral data associated with the tracking element; and determining whether to attribute the purchase event to one or more of the identified activities based on the assessment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Brent BADGER, Dennis KETTLER
  • Publication number: 20240104596
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing an account holder with an incentive-consent matrix at a point-of-sale device of a merchant. The account holder can provide consent to store transaction related data and obtain an incentive in exchange. The incentive can be a coupon or other offering associated with the merchant. Varying levels of consent can be offered, with each level associated with an incentive having a different relative value. The transaction data can subsequently be provided to a recipient in accordance with the consent received from the account holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Jacob Matthew STERLING, Scott Wayne DeANGELO, Dennis A. KETTLER, Balaji Janakiraman IYER, Trevor Alan BASS
  • Publication number: 20240062227
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for generating consumer analytics for products placed in online shopping carts. A profiler computing system generates a unique tacking profile for associating purchase events by a purchaser. Payment vehicle data and a tracking element are associated with the identified purchaser profile. The purchaser profile may be generated based on purchase information associated with an initial purchase event by the purchaser. The profiler computing system determines whether products abandoned in online shopping carts are purchased at brick-and-mortar affiliates or other merchant forums. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Nicole JASS, Dennis KETTLER
  • Publication number: 20240062171
    Abstract: A method for routing electronic payment transactions includes receiving transaction-related information from a merchant, extracting transaction routing criteria from the received transaction-related information, dynamically identifying one or more eligible payment networks based on extracted transaction routing criteria, predicting a likelihood of authorization acceptance for each identified network based on the transaction-related information, dynamically identifying one or more breakeven transaction amounts for each identified eligible payment network, each breakeven transaction amount defining a point at which two or more eligible payment networks have the same expenses for a given transaction amount, the expenses including costs associated with a low predicted likelihood of authorization acceptance, and routing signature debit transactions from the merchant to a least cost PIN-less debit network selected from the eligible payment networks based on identification of a desired breakeven transaction amount f
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Dennis A. KETTLER, Ryan CLAPP
  • Publication number: 20240054461
    Abstract: A method for routing electronic payment transactions includes receiving transaction-related information from a merchant, extracting transaction routing criteria from the received transaction-related information, dynamically identifying one or more eligible payment networks based on extracted transaction routing criteria, predicting a likelihood of authorization acceptance for each identified network based on the transaction-related information, dynamically identifying one or more breakeven transaction amounts for each identified eligible payment network, each breakeven transaction amount defining a point at which two or more eligible payment networks have the same expenses for a given transaction amount, the expenses including costs associated with a low predicted likelihood of authorization acceptance, and routing signature debit transactions from the merchant to a least cost PIN-less debit network selected from the eligible payment networks based on identification of a desired breakeven transaction amount f
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Dennis A. KETTLER, Ryan CLAPP
  • Patent number: 11900399
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for tracking consumer spend behavior to predict attrition. One method includes: receiving past transaction data related to a plurality of past payment transactions of a consumer; receiving environmental and/or behavioral data associated with each of the past payment transactions of the consumer; determining a spend behavior model of the consumer; subsequent to determining the spend behavior model of the consumer, receiving transaction data related to one or more current payment transactions of the consumer; receiving environmental and/or behavioral data associated with the one or more current payment transactions; determining, based on an analysis of the current transaction data and environmental and/or behavioral data associated with each of the current payment transactions, a current spend behavior of the consumer; and determining, based on a comparison of the current spend behavior with the spend behavior model, the likelihood of an attrition of the current spend behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Worldpay, LLC
    Inventors: Brent Badger, Dennis Kettler
  • Patent number: 11887150
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for attributing payment vehicle purchase events to previous activity of a purchaser. One method comprises: receiving purchase information associated with a purchase event by a purchaser; comparing the received purchase information to a profile data store to identify a purchaser profile associated with the purchaser, the profile data store comprising a plurality of purchaser profiles, wherein each purchaser profile comprises payment vehicle data and a tracking element; determining the tracking element of the identified purchaser profile; identifying one or more activities of the purchaser using the tracking element of the identified purchaser profile; for each of the identified one or more activities, assessing the strength of attributing the purchase event to the activity, using environmental and/or behavioral data associated with the tracking element; and determining whether to attribute the purchase event to one or more of the identified activities based on the assessment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Worldpay, LLC
    Inventors: Brent Badger, Dennis Kettler
  • Patent number: 11875373
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing an account holder with an incentive-consent matrix at a point-of-sale device of a merchant. The account holder can provide consent to store transaction related data and obtain an incentive in exchange. The incentive out be a coupon or other offering associated with the merchant. Varying levels of consent can be offered, with each level associated with an incentive having a different relative value. The transaction data can subsequently be provided to a recipient in accordance with the consent received from the account holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Worldpay, LLC
    Inventors: Jacob Matthew Sterling, Scott Wayne DeAngelo, Dennis A. Kettler, Balaji Janakiraman Iyer, Trevor Alan Bass
  • Publication number: 20230419323
    Abstract: Systems and methods are for routing electronic payment transactions to PIN-less networks using payment pseudo-networks and electronic transaction simulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Dennis KETTLER, Scott Wayne DeANGELO
  • Patent number: 11842359
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for generating consumer analytics for products placed in online shopping carts. A profiler computing system generates a unique tacking profile for associating purchase events by a purchaser. Payment vehicle data and a tracking element are associated with the identified purchaser profile. The purchaser profile may be generated based on purchase information associated with an initial purchase event by the purchaser. The profiler computing system determines whether products abandoned in online shopping carts are purchased at brick-and-mortar affiliates or other merchant forums. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Worldpay, LLC
    Inventors: Nicole Jass, Dennis Kettler
  • Patent number: 11842326
    Abstract: A method for routing electronic payment transactions includes receiving transaction-related information from a merchant, extracting transaction routing criteria from the received transaction-related information, dynamically identifying one or more eligible payment networks based on extracted transaction routing criteria, predicting a likelihood of authorization acceptance for each identified network based on the transaction-related information, dynamically identifying one or more breakeven transaction amounts for each identified eligible payment network, each breakeven transaction amount defining a point at which two or more eligible payment networks have the same expenses for a given transaction amount, the expenses including costs associated with a low predicted likelihood of authorization acceptance, and routing signature debit transactions from the merchant to a least cost PIN-less debit network selected from the eligible payment networks based on identification of a desired breakeven transaction amount f
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Worldpay, LLC
    Inventors: Dennis A. Kettler, Ryan Clapp
  • Patent number: 11836691
    Abstract: A method for routing electronic payment transactions includes receiving transaction-related information from a merchant, extracting transaction routing criteria from the received transaction-related information, dynamically identifying one or more eligible payment networks based on extracted transaction routing criteria, predicting a likelihood of authorization acceptance for each identified network based on the transaction-related information, dynamically identifying one or more breakeven transaction amounts for each identified eligible payment network, each breakeven transaction amount defining a point at which two or more eligible payment networks have the same expenses for a given transaction amount, the expenses including costs associated with a low predicted likelihood of authorization acceptance, and routing signature debit transactions from the merchant to a least cost PIN-less debit network selected from the eligible payment networks based on identification of a desired breakeven transaction amount f
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Worldpay, LLC
    Inventors: Dennis A. Kettler, Ryan Clapp
  • Publication number: 20230351399
    Abstract: A method for optimizing refunds for suspected or detected fraudulent transactions includes receiving a chargeback analysis request for a potential chargeback transaction from a merchant or a payment processor using an Application Programming Interface (API) over a computer network, extracting identifying information of transactions associated with the chargeback transaction from the chargeback analysis request, searching for a chargeback analysis profile in a profile database, determining whether the chargeback analysis profile exists in the profile database, upon determining that the chargeback analysis profile does not exist in the profile database, obtaining a new fraud analysis profile, determining, based on the chargeback analysis profile, a first probability that the potential chargeback transaction will result in a chargeback, determining, based on the chargeback analysis profile, a second probability that the potential chargeback transaction will result in a chargeback after a proactive electronic ref
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Dmitriy BURMISTROV, Dennis A. KETTLER, Tao HONG
  • Publication number: 20230351376
    Abstract: A method for routing electronic payment transactions may include receiving transaction-related information from a merchant, extracting transaction routing criteria from the received transaction-related information, identifying one or more eligible payment networks and one or more eligible acquirer processors based on extracted transaction routing criteria, predicting a likelihood of authorization acceptance for each combination of identified acquirer processor and identified network, identifying one or more breakeven transaction amounts for each combination of identified eligible acquirer processor and identified eligible payment network, and routing signature debit transactions from the merchant to a least cost combination of acquirer processor and PIN-less debit network selected from the eligible payment networks based on identification of a desired breakeven transaction amount for the PIN-less debit network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Dennis KETTLER, Ryan CLAPP
  • Patent number: 11790367
    Abstract: A method for optimizing refunds for suspected or detected fraudulent transactions includes receiving a chargeback analysis request for a potential chargeback transaction from a merchant or a payment processor, extracting identifying information of transactions associated with the chargeback transaction from the chargeback analysis request, searching for a chargeback analysis profile in a profile database, determining whether the chargeback analysis profile exists in the profile database, upon determining that the chargeback analysis profile does not exist in the profile database, obtaining a new fraud analysis profile, determining, based on the chargeback analysis profile, a first probability that the potential chargeback transaction will result in a chargeback, determining, based on the chargeback analysis profile, a second probability that the potential chargeback transaction will result in a chargeback after a proactive electronic refund transaction, and generating a proactive electronic refund transaction
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Worldpay, LLC
    Inventors: Dmitriy Burmistrov, Dennis A. Kettler, Tao Hong
  • Patent number: 11790362
    Abstract: Systems and methods are for routing electronic payment transactions to PIN-less networks using payment pseudo-networks and electronic transaction simulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Worldpay, LLC
    Inventors: Dennis Kettler, Scott Wayne DeAngelo
  • Patent number: 11741460
    Abstract: A method for routing electronic payment transactions may include receiving transaction-related information from a merchant, extracting transaction routing criteria from the received transaction-related information, identifying one or more eligible payment networks and one or more eligible acquirer processors based on extracted transaction routing criteria, predicting a likelihood of authorization acceptance for each combination of identified acquirer processor and identified network, identifying one or more breakeven transaction amounts for each combination of identified eligible acquirer processor and identified eligible payment network, and routing signature debit transactions from the merchant to a least cost combination of acquirer processor and PIN-less debit network selected from the eligible payment networks based on identification of a desired breakeven transaction amount for the PIN-less debit network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Worldpay, LLC
    Inventors: Dennis Kettler, Ryan Clapp
  • Publication number: 20230102124
    Abstract: Technologies for identifying prospective marketing targets based on payment vehicle-based payment transactions processed over electronic payment networks are disclosed. Payment vehicle-based payment transactions are analyzed to determine historical purchase activity progressions. Consumer behavior can be mapped to a historical purchase activity progression so that future spend behavior of the consumer can be identified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Scott Wayne DeANGELO, Brent Alan BADGER, Jacob Matthew STERLING, Dennis A. KETTLER
  • Publication number: 20230101463
    Abstract: Systems and methods are for routing electronic payment transactions to PIN-less networks using payment pseudo-networks and electronic transaction simulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Dennis KETTLER, Scott Wayne DeANGELO