Patents by Inventor EDWARD WILLIAM JUDGE

EDWARD WILLIAM JUDGE 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: 20220318804
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for facilitating network requests regarding transit by users. One example computer-implemented method includes receiving a request for a subscription plan for a user from a communication device, where the subscription plan includes a subscription fee payable by the user for the subscription plan, and requesting issuance of a transit account from an issuing entity and provision of a credential specific to the transit account to a transit application implemented on the communication device. The computer-implemented method also includes initiating a transaction for the subscription fee indicated by the subscription plan from a funding account, associated with the user, to a common account and directing funds from the common account to the transit account, based on the subscription plan and the credential, thereby enabling the transit account to fund transit services consistent with the subscription plan at multiple different transit providers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventor: Edward William Judge
  • Patent number: 11373184
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for facilitating network requests regarding transit by users. One exemplary method includes receiving, at a computing device, a network request for a subscription plan from a user and requesting, by the computing device, issuance of a transit account from an issuing entity, whereby, upon issuance of the transit account, a credential associated with the transit account is provisioned to a transit application associated with the user. The exemplary method also includes directing, by the computing device, funds from a common account to the transit account, at the issuing entity, based on the subscription plan, thereby permitting the user to engage in transit services funded by the transit account consistent with the subscription plan at multiple different transit providers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Edward William Judge
  • Patent number: 11182700
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for automatically detecting, tracking, and validating transit journeys are provided. A transit data processing engine receives sensory data gathered by a plurality of sensors of a mobile device registered for automatic tracking of transit journeys and detects, based on transit data of one or more transit agencies and a first set of the sensory data, a potential transit event with the one or more transit agencies. Based on the transit data and a second set of the sensory data, received subsequently to the first set of the sensory data, the processing engine determines then whether the potential transit event defines a transit journey having a starting point with the one or more transit agencies. If the potential transit event defines the transit journey, the transit data processing engine continues to analyse the sensory data being received to detect an ending point of the transit journey.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Edward William Judge, James Christian Noë
  • Publication number: 20200387901
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for facilitating network requests regarding transit. One exemplary method includes receiving, at a computing device, from a network, a request directed to a user account having a first resource and a second resource, where the request includes a category code for an entity and an identifier for the user account, and determining, by the computing device, whether the category code is indicative of a first segment of entities or a second segment of entities. The method then also includes, when the category code is indicative of the first segment, assigning the request to the first resource and responding to the request based on the first resource and, when the category code is indicative of the second segment, assigning the request to the second resource and responding to the request based on the second resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Paul Kellett, Edward William Judge
  • Publication number: 20190197536
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for facilitating network requests regarding transit by users. One exemplary method includes receiving, at a computing device, a network request for a subscription plan from a user and requesting, by the computing device, issuance of a transit account from an issuing entity, whereby, upon issuance of the transit account, a credential associated with the transit account is provisioned to a transit application associated with the user. The exemplary method also includes directing, by the computing device, funds from a common account to the transit account, at the issuing entity, based on the subscription plan, thereby permitting the user to engage in transit services funded by the transit account consistent with the subscription plan at multiple different transit providers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventor: Edward William Judge
  • Publication number: 20160379141
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for automatically detecting, tracking, and validating transit journeys are provided. A transit data processing engine receives sensory data gathered by a plurality of sensors of a mobile device registered for automatic tracking of transit journeys and detects, based on transit data of one or more transit agencies and a first set of the sensory data, a potential transit event with the one or more transit agencies. Based on the transit data and a second set of the sensory data, received subsequently to the first set of the sensory data, the processing engine determines then whether the potential transit event defines a transit journey having a starting point with the one or more transit agencies. If the potential transit event defines the transit journey, the transit data processing engine continues to analyse the sensory data being received to detect an ending point of the transit journey.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: EDWARD WILLIAM JUDGE, JAMES CHRISTIAN NOË