Patents by Inventor Howard Spector

Howard Spector 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).

  • Patent number: 11961080
    Abstract: Method and systems for securely and accurately authenticating a payment card by using biometric information associated with an authorized user is provided. The method may be implemented by providing a payment card that includes a processor; a display area coupled to the processor and configured to hide account information when the payment card has not been authenticated and to display the account information for a predetermined time interval when the payment card is authenticated; a sensor coupled to the processor and configured to capture biometric information of a user; and a communication interface coupled to the processor and configured to facilitate wireless communication with a mobile smart phone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK. N.A.
    Inventors: Syed Rizwan Ali, Ankita Mehta, Vandana S Dubay, Neela Mukherjee, A K M Nazmus Sakib, Marc Dilodovico, Robert Crooks, Howard Spector, John L Oliver, III
  • Patent number: 11961063
    Abstract: Systems and methods for enhanced payment codes are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method for presenting a machine-readable code to a transaction terminal may include (1) a computer payment application executed by a computer processor of a mobile electronic device displaying an image of a first payment device on a display; (2) the computer payment application receiving a signal from a sensor in the mobile electronic device indicating that the display is being presented to a transaction terminal; (3) the computer application requesting a machine readable code from a provider of machine-readable codes for the first payment device; (4) the computer application receiving the machine readable code for the first payment device; and (5) the computer application displaying the machine readable code on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
    Inventor: Howard Spector
  • Patent number: 11960625
    Abstract: A method for local data storage governance may include: authenticating, by a privacy service computer program, a user accessing the privacy service using a privacy application; receiving, by the privacy service computer program and from a proxy service, user activity data; saving, by the privacy service computer program, the user activity data to a privacy database; receiving, by the privacy service computer program and from the privacy application, a request for the user activity data; retrieving, by the privacy service computer program and from the privacy database, the user activity data; communicating, by the privacy service computer program, the user activity data to the privacy application, wherein the privacy application stores the user activity data in local storage; receiving, by the privacy service computer program, an acknowledgement of the user activity data; and purging, by the privacy service computer program, the user activity data from the privacy database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
    Inventors: Pavan Mummareddi, Ishank Paharia, Howard Spector
  • Publication number: 20240112174
    Abstract: Systems and methods for mobile wallet payments are disclosed. In one embodiment, in an information processing apparatus comprising at least one computer processor, a method for conducting a payment using an electronic wallet may include: (1) a mobile application receiving a selection of an alternate payment currency; the mobile application receiving a payment payload from an issuer; the mobile application providing the selection of the alternate payment currency and an identifier to the issuer; and the mobile application providing the payment payload and the identifier to a merchant host. The merchant host may communicate the identifier to the issuer, and the issuer may identify selection of the alternate payment currency based on the identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Howard SPECTOR, Eric CONNOLLY, John D MOORE, Nancy E HIEBLER, Michael NAGGAR, Ayman A HAMMAD, Tuan DAO, Venkata MARANANI
  • Publication number: 20240095717
    Abstract: Systems and methods for dynamic inclusion of enhanced data in transactions are disclosed. According to another embodiment, in an information processing apparatus comprising at least one computer processor, a method for conducting a mobile wallet payment with dynamic enhanced data using a mobile payment application may include: (1) receiving, from a merchant point of transaction device, a transaction request from a mobile payment application executed by a mobile electronic device, the transaction request comprising a unique identifier for a financial instrument provisioned to a mobile wallet computer application and a payment option selection; and (2) processing the transaction request according to the payment option selection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Howard SPECTOR, Allison BEER, Craig M. MULLANEY, Vimal BRAHMBHATT, Brent SAMUELS
  • Publication number: 20240095715
    Abstract: Systems and methods for activating and using dynamic cards are disclosed. In one embodiment, in an information processing apparatus comprising at least one computer processor, a method for activating a dynamic transaction instrument may include: (1) receiving, from an electronic device, an identification of an inactive financial instrument to activate; (2) receiving, from the electronic device, at least one parameter that restricts the use of the inactive financial instrument after it is activated; and (3) activating the inactive financial instrument subject to the at least one parameter by associating, at a backend, an account with the inactive financial instrument.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: James P. WHITE, III, Eric Han Kai CHANG, Howard SPECTOR, William F. MANN, III
  • Patent number: 11928669
    Abstract: Systems and methods for mobile wallet payments are disclosed. In one embodiment, in an information processing apparatus comprising at least one computer processor, a method for conducting a payment using an electronic wallet may include: (1) a mobile application receiving a selection of an alternate payment currency; the mobile application receiving a payment payload from an issuer; the mobile application providing the selection of the alternate payment currency and an identifier to the issuer; and the mobile application providing the payment payload and the identifier to a merchant host. The merchant host may communicate the identifier to the issuer, and the issuer may identify selection of the alternate payment currency based on the identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
    Inventors: Howard Spector, Eric Connolly, John D Moore, Nancy E Hiebler, Michael Naggar, Ayman A Hammad, Tuan Dao, Venkata Maranani
  • Patent number: 11922448
    Abstract: In supply-side information processing apparatus comprising at least one computer processor, a method for providing a user with intent-based ads may include: (1) receiving, from an intent broker, intent identifiers for intent categories of user intents; (2) communicating the intent identifiers to a demand-side platform, the demand-side platform comprising a plurality of advertisers and merchants; (3) receiving, from a supply-side SDK on a user electronic device, personal data for a user, wherein the supply-side SDK captures the personal data from a publisher application executed on the user electronic device; (4) retrieving, based on the personal data and from the intent broker, a user intent identifier for the user, the user intent identifier matching one of the intent categories; (5) communicating the user intent identifier to the supply-side SDK, wherein the supply-side SDK requests an intent-based ad from the demand-side platform using the user intent identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
    Inventors: Tuan Dao, Howard Spector, Ralph Darmo
  • Patent number: 11922400
    Abstract: Systems and methods for activating and using dynamic cards are disclosed. In one embodiment, in an information processing apparatus comprising at least one computer processor, a method for activating a dynamic transaction instrument may include: (1) receiving, from an electronic device, an identification of an inactive financial instrument to activate; (2) receiving, from the electronic device, at least one parameter that restricts the use of the inactive financial instrument after it is activated; and (3) activating the inactive financial instrument subject to the at least one parameter by associating, at a backend, an account with the inactive financial instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Inventors: James P. White, III, Eric Han Kai Chang, Howard Spector, William F Mann, III
  • Patent number: 11893575
    Abstract: Systems and methods for dynamic inclusion of enhanced data in transactions are disclosed. According to another embodiment, in an information processing apparatus comprising at least one computer processor, a method for conducting a mobile wallet payment with dynamic enhanced data using a mobile payment application may include: (1) receiving, from a merchant point of transaction device, a transaction request from a mobile payment application executed by a mobile electronic device, the transaction request comprising a unique identifier for a financial instrument provisioned to a mobile wallet computer application and a payment option selection; and (2) processing the transaction request according to the payment option selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
    Inventors: Howard Spector, Allison Beer, Craig Mullaney, Vimal Brahmbhatt, Brent Samuels
  • Patent number: 11882151
    Abstract: Systems and methods for preventing the fraudulent sending of data from a computer application to a malicious third party are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for preventing a computer application from sending data to an unauthorized website may include: (1) receiving, at a computer application executed by an electronic device and from a first website, an identification of a second website for receiving data from the computer application; (2) providing, by the computer application and to a certificate authority, the identification of the second website, wherein the certificate authority validates that the second website is on a list of allowed websites for the first website; (3) receiving, by the computer application and from the certificate authority, validation; and (4) communicating, by the computer application, the data to the second website.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
    Inventors: Howard Spector, Glenn Gray, Jin Wen, Donald B. Roberts, Matthew Cerini
  • Patent number: 11847648
    Abstract: Systems and methods for secure digital safe deposit boxes are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for using a secure digital safe deposit box may include: (1) receiving permission from a customer to access internal and third party financial or confidential information for the customer; (2) retrieving the internal financial or confidential information for the customer; (3) receiving account information accounts held with a third party that holds financial or confidential information; (4) jointly authenticating the customer with the third party; (5) receiving the third party financial or confidential information for the customer from the third party; (6) receiving permission to share at least some of the internal or third party financial or confidential information for the customer with an external party; and (7) sharing the internal or third party financial or confidential information for the customer with the external party in accordance with the permission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK , N.A.
    Inventors: Allison Beer, Howard Spector, Seth M. Goldkrantz
  • Publication number: 20230403562
    Abstract: Systems and methods for using device data to validate a mobile user are disclosed. In accordance with aspects, a method may include receiving, at a backend processing infrastructure of a third party and from a backend processing infrastructure of a mobile application provider, a first copy of location information and an IP address, wherein the location information and the IP address are associated with a mobile device; receiving, at the backend processing infrastructure of the third party and from a mobile application provided by the third party, a second copy of the location information and the IP address, wherein the mobile application provided by the third party is executed on the mobile device; and verifying, by the backend processing infrastructure of the third party, that the first copy of the location information and the IP address matches the second copy of the location information and the IP address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Howard SPECTOR, Scott H OUELLETTE, Dave CAREY
  • Patent number: 11836550
    Abstract: Systems and methods for moving, reconciling, and aggregating data from mainframe computers to hybrid cloud are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK , N.A.
    Inventors: Tayo Ibikunle, Vishnuvardhan Pondugula, Mizan Miah, Howard Spector, Ashok Reddy, Arun Subramanian, Raghu Vudathu, Anupam Arora
  • Patent number: 11836710
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating payment application provisioning and transacting are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method for provisioning a token to a third party payment application on a mobile device may include (1) receiving a logon from a customer using a mobile application for a financial institution executed on a mobile device and a device identifier for the mobile device; (2) receiving a request to provision a token for a third party payment application; (3) authenticating the customer using the logon information and the device identifier; (4) provisioning a token for a payment device associated with the customer; and (5) providing the token to the third party payment application for transaction processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
    Inventors: Howard Spector, Scott H. Ouellette, Brian J. Smyth, Christina Sheppard, Gavin C. Michael, Sih Lee, Kelly Dempski, Tim J. Parsey, Andrew Sloper, Ken Wimberely, Laura X. Wang, Shadman Zafar
  • Publication number: 20230376953
    Abstract: Systems and methods for establishing trust between a conventional mobile application and a micro application are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Howard SPECTOR, Scott H. OUELLETTE, Dave CAREY
  • Publication number: 20230377001
    Abstract: In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a method including: providing a host application that provides a native service of a host organization to an end user of the application, and wherein the application integrates and provides an augmented reality service of a third party to the end user of the application; determining, by the data center of the host organization, a location-relevant incentive offer based on location telemetry data; sending the location-relevant incentive offer to a data center of the third party; monitoring, by the data center of the third party, the physical location of the end user; sending to the augmented reality service, the location-relevant incentive offer; and presenting, by the augmented reality service and to the end user via the application, the location-relevant incentive offer when the end user is within a predefined proximity to a vendor associated with the location-relevant incentive offer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Dave CAREY, Howard SPECTOR, Peter G COSTANZO
  • Publication number: 20230367907
    Abstract: Systems and methods for protection of data across multiple users and devices are disclosed. According to one embodiment, in privacy server comprising at least one computer processor, a method for protection of data across multiple users and devices may include: (1) receiving, from a first user device, a data sharing permission for the first user device and a data sharing permission for a second user device, the first user device and the second user device associated with the same user; (2) provisioning the data sharing permission for the second user device; and (3) communicating the provisioned data sharing permission to the second user device, wherein the second user device shares data with the first user device according to the provisioned data sharing permission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Tuan DAO, Howard SPECTOR, Jeremy F. BENNETT, Rod BACHELOR, Pavan MUMMAREDDI, Ralph DARMO
  • Publication number: 20230362161
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing secure access to delegated resources are disclosed. In accordance with embodiments, a method may include receiving a delegation request, where the delegation request is associated with a user account; determining a list of delegable resources for which the user account has permission to delegate access; presenting the list of delegable resources via a user interface; receiving from the user interface, a user selection of a delegable resource from the list; generating a delegate identifier; associating an access permission to the delegate identifier, where the access permission provides access to the delegable resource; receiving the delegate identifier via the user interface; authenticating the delegate identifier; and providing access to the delegable resource based on the access permission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Howard SPECTOR, Tayo IBIKUNLE, Ryan EAVY, Ryan S YODER, Srividya RAJESH, Hermann LUECKHOFF, Paul SIMON
  • Publication number: 20230325799
    Abstract: Systems and methods for online billpay using credit products are disclosed. In one embodiment, in an information processing apparatus comprising at least one computer processor, a method for online billpay using a credit product may include: (1) receiving, from a customer, an identification of a merchant for online credit-based bill pay; (2) retrieving accepted payment mechanisms from the merchant; (3) selecting a payment mechanism from the accepted payment mechanisms; (4) receiving an invoice for a customer transaction with the merchant from the merchant; (5) conducting a payment transaction with the selected payment mechanism; and (6) charging the payment transaction to a credit account associated with the customer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Howard SPECTOR, Krishna K. BHAGAVATULA, Scott H. OUELLETTE, Winter P. NG, Devin C. MOORE