Patents by Inventor Elizabeth S. Votaw

Elizabeth S. Votaw 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: 20170262452
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a tiered identification federated authentication network system. Embodiments compile one or more authentication credentials required for access to each of a plurality of applications to generate an authentication set for each application. The system may aggregate the plurality of authentication sets to form a tiered federated authentication module having multiple rankings, wherein each rank is associated with an authentication set; wherein a higher ranked authentication set corresponds to more stringent authentication credentials and a lower ranked authentication set corresponds to less stringent authentication credentials. The system may receive a request from a user for access to a current application, determine if the user has previously authenticated to a higher ranked application and, if so, enable access to the current application, without requiring the user to authenticate again.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventors: Elizabeth S. Votaw, Alicia C. Jones-McFadden
  • Patent number: 9754320
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods, and computer program products for providing a record of an interactive conference, such as a video conference. The systems, methods, and computer program products determine that an operative connection has been established between a user device of a user and a system associated with a representative of a financial institution, such that the user and the representative are conducting a conference; identify a document referenced during the conference; capture at least a portion of the conference in a record; associate the document with the record; and store the record. Customers of financial institutions desire to have records of their interactions with representatives of the financial institution and the embodiments of this invention assist the customer in maintaining and organizing those records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew A. Calman, Rajat Agrawal, Wanwen Han, Alicia C. Jones, Su Liu, Cameron Jungeun Park-Hur, Nir Rachmel, Lynn Streja, Elizabeth S. Votaw
  • Patent number: 9729536
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a tiered identification federated authentication network system. Embodiments compile one or more authentication credentials required for access to each of a plurality of applications to generate an authentication set for each application. The system may aggregate the plurality of authentication sets to form a tiered federated authentication module having multiple rankings, wherein each rank is associated with an authentication set; wherein a higher ranked authentication set corresponds to more stringent authentication credentials and a lower ranked authentication set corresponds to less stringent authentication credentials. The system may receive a request from a user for access to a current application, determine if the user has previously authenticated to a higher ranked application and, if so, enable access to the current application, without requiring the user to authenticate again.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Elizabeth S. Votaw, Alicia C. Jones-McFadden
  • Publication number: 20170187754
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, or computer program product for a passive based security escalation to shut off of applications on a mobile device based on rules. As such, the system may identify, via extraction of data, time periods correlating to events that the user may be offline or inactive with respect to his/her mobile device. Once the time periods are identified, rules are created for the level of security escalation required based on the event. Subsequently, a trigger is identified at a time leading up to the event, where the system integrates with the mobile device and requires additional authentication to access one or more applications. Once the offline event starts, the system initiates a shutdown of the functions of one or more applications on the user's mobile device. The system then reinstates the application functionality after the offline event has ended.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Inventors: Elizabeth S. Votaw, Alicia C. Jones-McFadden
  • Publication number: 20170149840
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for selectively enabling and disabling biometric authentication are presented. In some embodiments, a computing platform may receive, from a device monitoring and management computer system, a device state indicator message comprising device state information associated with a mobile computing device. Subsequently, the computing platform may set a biometric authentication flag for the mobile computing device based on the device state indicator message received from the device monitoring and management computer system. Then, the computing platform may generate an authentication functionality message for the mobile computing device based on the biometric authentication flag set for the mobile computing device, and the authentication functionality message may be configured to selectively enable or disable one or more biometric authentication functions provided by the mobile computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Xianhong Zhang, Wenhui Meng, Kalyan V. Pasumarthi, Elizabeth S. Votaw, Andrew T. Keys, Apeksh M. Dave
  • Patent number: 9647999
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to systems, methods and computer program products for assigning a level of authentication to an authentication bucket. Embodiments determine a current level of authentication corresponding to a first authentication bucket comprising a plurality of mobile banking functions; collect a set of circumstantial data corresponding with the apparatus; determine a circumstances score based at least in part on the set of circumstantial data; and determine whether the current level of authentication corresponding to the first authentication bucket is appropriate based at least in part on the circumstances score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: David M. Grigg, Joseph Neil Johansen, Michael E. Toth, Daniel Lynn Carpenter, Hood Qaim-Maqami, Carrie Anne Hanson, Elizabeth S. Votaw
  • Publication number: 20170126649
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a tiered identification federated authentication network system. Embodiments compile one or more authentication credentials required for access to each of a plurality of applications to generate an authentication set for each application. The system may aggregate the plurality of authentication sets to form a tiered federated authentication module having multiple rankings, wherein each rank is associated with an authentication set; wherein a higher ranked authentication set corresponds to more stringent authentication credentials and a lower ranked authentication set corresponds to less stringent authentication credentials. The system may receive a request from a user for access to a current application, determine if the user has previously authenticated to a higher ranked application and, if so, enable access to the current application, without requiring the user to authenticate again.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Elizabeth S. Votaw, Alicia C. Jones-McFadden
  • Publication number: 20170126693
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, or computer program product for a passive based security escalation to shut off of applications on a mobile device based on rules. As such, the system may identify, via extraction of data, time periods correlating to events that the user may be offline or inactive with respect to his/her mobile device. Once the time periods are identified, rules are created for the level of security escalation required based on the event. Subsequently, a trigger is identified at a time leading up to the event, where the system integrates with the mobile device and requires additional authentication to access one or more applications. Once the offline event starts, the system initiates a shutdown of the functions of one or more applications on the user's mobile device. The system then reinstates the application functionality after the offline event has ended.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Elizabeth S. Votaw, Alicia C. Jones-McFadden
  • Publication number: 20170126639
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, or computer program product for providing a permanently affixed un-decryptable coded identifier onto a mobile device. The identifier may be one or more applications, pictures, widgets, tokens, or the like that may be transformed into an identifier to include the objects original functionality plus additional coding. The identifier, once selected by the user may be coded to include a tracker, beacon, and coded with remote access abilities. The identifier may then be permanently installed onto the user's mobile device. As such providing a trackable code associated with a mobile device, if the mobile device is misplaced. Furthermore, the identifier may be permanently stored within the mobile device preventing complete erasing of the identifier upon complete data deletion of the user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Alicia C. Jones-McFadden, Elizabeth S. Votaw
  • Publication number: 20170127275
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes an integrated full and partial shutdown application programming interface. Embodiments herein disclosed include receiving an indication that a mobile device of a user is compromised. Further embodiments identify one or more applications associated with the mobile device and remotely access the mobile device to perform a switch-off of the one or more applications. The switch-off may include logging the user out of the one or more applications before removing the one or more applications from the mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Alicia C. Jones-McFadden, Elizabeth S. Votaw
  • Patent number: 9639893
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention comprise systems, computer program products, and methods for a financial and social management system that provides improved tracking and management related to how, where, when, and with whom a user enters into activities. The financial and social management system captures activity information and images from various sources of information, including but not limited to social networking accounts, e-receipts, location determination devices, and the like, and associates the activity information and images with the activities. The financial and social management system aggregates the activity information for a number of activities based on the location, user, entity, category, cost, time period, or the like and displays the aggregated activity information in an activity review interface. The financial and social management system may supplement the aggregated activity information with educational data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Elizabeth S. Votaw, Laura Corinne Bondesen, Matthew A. Calman, Katherine Dintenfass, Candice Michelle Jones, Charles Karim Aweida, Parker Holt Bossier, Rebecca A. Chen, Nandhita Kumar, Min Zhao
  • Patent number: 9639892
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention comprise systems, computer program products, and methods for a financial and social management system that provides improved tracking and management related to how, where, when, and with whom a user enters into activities. The financial and social management system captures activity information and images from various sources of information, including but not limited to social networking accounts, e-receipts, location determination devices, and the like, and associates the activity information and images with the activities. The financial and social management system aggregates the activity information for a number of activities based on the location, user, entity, category, cost, time period, or the like and displays the aggregated activity information in an activity review interface. The financial and social management system may supplement the aggregated activity information with educational data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Elizabeth S. Votaw, Laura Corinne Bondesen, Matthew A. Calman, Katherine Dintenfass, Candice Michelle Jones, Charles Karim Aweida, Parker Holt Bossier, Rebecca A. Chen, Nandhita Kumar, Min Zhao
  • Patent number: 9641539
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, or computer program product for a passive based security escalation to shut off of applications on a mobile device based on rules. As such, the system may identify, via extraction of data, time periods correlating to events that the user may be offline or inactive with respect to his/her mobile device. Once the time periods are identified, rules are created for the level of security escalation required based on the event. Subsequently, a trigger is identified at a time leading up to the event, where the system integrates with the mobile device and requires additional authentication to access one or more applications. Once the offline event starts, the system initiates a shutdown of the functions of one or more applications on the user's mobile device. The system then reinstates the application functionality after the offline event has ended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Elizabeth S. Votaw, Alicia C. Jones-McFadden
  • Patent number: 9628495
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, and a computer program product self-selected user access based on specific authentication types. The system typically including a memory, a processor, and a module configured to receive from a user, a user-selected preference, wherein the user-selected preference comprises one or more authentication types desired by the user; determine a level of authentication from a plurality of levels of authentication are associated with the one or more authentication types associated with the user-selected preference; initiate the presentation of a user interface that enables the user to select one or more application functions, wherein the one or more application functions are associated with the determined level of authentication; receive from a user, a selection of one or more application functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: David M. Grigg, Joseph Neil Johansen, Carrie Anne Hanson, Charles Jason Burrell, Elizabeth S. Votaw
  • Patent number: 9595032
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to an invention for accessing a remotely located mobile device of a user based on certain events is provided. The system, method, and computer program product are configured to: (a) monitor one or more transaction involving a transaction vehicle of a user; (b) determine a physical location of a transaction vehicle based at least partially on the one or more transactions; (c) determine a geographic location of a mobile device of the user, wherein the mobile device is associated with the transaction vehicle; (d) determine whether or not the transaction vehicle of the user and the mobile device of the user are co-located; and (e) reconfigure one or more applications accessible to the mobile device or one or more functional features of the mobile device based at least partially on determining that the mobile device and the transaction vehicle of the user are not co-located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Elizabeth S. Votaw, Charles Jason Burrell, Carrie Anne Hanson, Alicia C. Jones, Michael Patrick Lynch, Hood Qaim-Maqami
  • Patent number: 9595025
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to systems, methods and computer program products for sorting mobile banking functions into authentication buckets. Embodiments determine, for each of a plurality of mobile banking functions, a corresponding authentication buckets, where each authentication bucket corresponds with a level of authentication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: David M. Grigg, Joseph Neil Johansen, Michael E. Toth, Daniel Lynn Carpenter, Hood Qaim-Maqami, Carrie Anne Hanson, Elizabeth S. Votaw
  • Patent number: 9589261
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to an invention for accessing a remotely located mobile device of a user based on certain events is provided. The system, method, and computer program product are configured to: (a) monitor one or more transaction involving a transaction vehicle of a user; (b) determine a physical location of a transaction vehicle based at least partially on the one or more transactions; (c) determine a geographic location of a mobile device of the user, wherein the mobile device is associated with the transaction vehicle; (d) determine whether or not the transaction vehicle of the user and the mobile device of the user are co-located; and (e) reconfigure one or more applications accessible to the mobile device or one or more functional features of the mobile device based at least partially on determining that the mobile device and the transaction vehicle of the user are not co-located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Elizabeth S. Votaw, Charles Jason Burrell, Carrie Anne Hanson, Alicia C. Jones, Michael Patrick Lynch, Hood Qaim-Maqami
  • Publication number: 20170063820
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a system includes a memory comprising instructions, an interface, and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory and the interface. The interface is configured to receive an indication of a sign-on event for a first application installed on a user device, and the processor is configured, when executing the instructions, to perform, in response to the sign-on event, one or more first account security functions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: William B. Belchee, Elizabeth S. Votaw, Michael P. Lynch
  • Publication number: 20170063866
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a system includes a memory comprising instructions, an interface, and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory and the interface. The interface is configured to receive, from a first user associated with an online account, a first request to allow access, by a second user not associated with the online account, to the online account, send, in response to the first request, a second request to the second user for credentials, and receive, in response to the second request, credentials from the second user. The process is configured, when executing the instructions, to generate, for the online account based on the first and the credentials received from the second user, an access profile associated with the second user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Elizabeth S. Votaw, William B. Belchee
  • Publication number: 20170063865
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a system comprises a memory comprising instructions, an interface, and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory and the interface. The processor is configured, when executing the instructions, to determine one or more characteristics of a user device, determine, based on the one or more characteristics of the user device, a risk level associated with the user device, and apply, to the user device, one or more access restrictions for an online account based on the determined risk level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: William B. Belchee, Elizabeth S. Votaw