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: 10937027
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing token-based transactions are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method for managing token-based transactions may include (1) a token manager server comprising at least one computer processor receiving, from a customer, a request to provide a payment token to a merchant; (2) the token manager server receiving, from the customer, an identification of a first financial instrument and a second financial instrument to associate with the payment token; (3) the token manager server receiving, from the customer, an allocation of a transaction between the first financial instrument and the second financial instrument; (4) the token manager server generating the payment token and associating the payment token with the first financial instrument and the second financial instrument; and (5) the token manager server providing the payment token to the merchant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
    Inventors: Benjamin Sokol, Ryan Andrew Schlosser, Jordan Butler, Howard Spector, Scott H. Ouellette, Winter P. Ng
  • Publication number: 20210027264
    Abstract: A method for accepting cash deposits or billpays at merchant point of transaction devices may include: (1) receiving, from a customer mobile device, a mobile deposit request comprising a deposit account identifier for a deposit or a mobile billpay request including a payee identifier and a billpay amount; (2) generating a code for the mobile deposit request or the mobile billpay request; (3) communicating the code to the customer mobile device; (4) receiving, from a merchant point of transaction device, a deposit request or a billpay request comprising the code and a received amount; (5) identifying, from the code, the deposit account identifier or the billpay payee identifier and billpay amount; and (6) depositing the received deposit amount to a deposit account associated with the deposit account identifier or executing a billpay to payee associated with the payee identifier for the billpay amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Lee L. HOU, Howard SPECTOR, Scott H. OUELLETTE, Winter P. NG
  • Patent number: 10878407
    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: April 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
    Inventors: Howard Spector, Scott Ouellette, Brian J. Smyth, Christina Sheppard, Gavin Michael, Sih X. Lee, Kelly Dempski, Tim J. Parsey, Andrew Sloper, Ken Wimberely, Laura X. Wang, Shadman Zafar
  • Patent number: 10878406
    Abstract: Systems and methods for token and transaction management are disclosed. According to one embodiment, in an issuer wallet server comprising at least one computer processor, a method for token and transaction management may include: (1) receiving a update for an attribute for a Device WalletID or an issuer wallet application executed by an electronic device; (2) providing the update to the issuer wallet application; (3) providing the update to a third party wallet server associated with a third party wallet application executed by the electronic device, wherein the third party wallet server communicates the update to the third party wallet application; and (4) updating the attribute in the Device WalletID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
    Inventors: Tuan Dao, Howard Spector, Raghuram Vudathu, Yunchul Bryan Jeon, Rajitha Dissanayake, Sunil Mathur
  • Publication number: 20200389450
    Abstract: In one embodiment, in an information processing apparatus comprising at least one computer processor, a method for issuing an identity verification token to a user may include: (1) receiving, from a user, identity information; (2) generating an identity profile for the user comprising the identity information; (3) associating an identity verification token with at least some of the identity information in the identity profile; and (4) communicating the identity verification token to the user. The user may store the identity verification token in an electronic wallet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Whittney Anne LEVITT, Howard SPECTOR, Tuan DAO
  • Publication number: 20200380598
    Abstract: Systems and methods for digital identity verification are disclosed. In one embodiment, in an information processing apparatus comprising at least one computer processor, a method for digital identify verification may include: (1) receiving, from a user electronic device or at a website, an image of an identity document for a user, the identity document comprising an image of the user; (2) processing the identity document with at least one business-specific rule; (3) extracting identity information from the identity document; (4) determining a match rate of the image of the user on the identity document to a captured image; (5) assigning a verification score to the user based on extracted identity information and the match rate; and (6) publishing the verification score to at least one system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Howard SPECTOR, Jasbir BANGA, Allison BEER, Meena PINTO, Michael S. HARTMAN, Dennis BOWERS, Pio ABATE
  • Publication number: 20200380165
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for obfuscation of browser fingerprint data are disclosed. In one embodiment, in an information processing apparatus comprising at least one computer processor, a method may include: (1) receiving an electronic communication from an electronic device to a destination; (2) identifying a raw device fingerprint value in the electronic communication from an electronic device; (3) selecting at least one replacement value for the raw device fingerprint value; (4) replacing the raw device fingerprint value with the replacement value in the electronic communication; and (5) sending the electronic communication with the replacement value to the destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Jeremy F. BENNETT, Rod BACHELOR, Andrew GRIGNON, Howard SPECTOR
  • Publication number: 20200327574
    Abstract: A system and a method are provided for facilitating a transaction. The method may include: obtaining information that relates to a user's intention with respect to a desired experience; determining user benefits that apply to proposed transactions that relate to the desired experience with merchants; providing information that relates to the proposed user benefits to the user; and providing, to the user, an instrument that is configured to facilitate a performance of the proposed transactions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventors: Tuan DAO, Howard SPECTOR
  • Publication number: 20200234364
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating banking transactions at a point of sale device are disclosed. In one embodiment, in an information processing apparatus for a financial institution comprising at least one computer processor, a method for facilitating banking transactions at a third-party point of transaction device may include: (1) receiving, from a computer application executed by a customer electronic device, a request for a code to conduct a remote banking transaction with an account associated with the customer at the financial institution; (2) generating the code; (3) providing the code to the customer; (4) receiving, from a payment enabler, a banking transaction request from a third party comprising the code and a transaction amount for the banking transaction; and (5) updating a balance for the account based on the transaction amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Howard SPECTOR, Joseph R. MCCULLOUGH
  • Publication number: 20200193435
    Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying and processing person-to-person payments are disclosed. In one embodiment, in an information processing apparatus comprising at least one computer processor, a method for processing a transaction may include: (1) receiving, from a third-party payment platform and via a card association and an acquirer, a transaction request comprising a person-to-person payment indicator in a pass-through field in the transaction request; (2) updating a token transaction characteristic value to contain a person-to-person payment flag; and (3) applying a business rule to the transaction request based on the person-to-person payment flag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Howard SPECTOR, Tuan DAO, Scott H. OUELLETTE, Sunil MATHUR
  • Publication number: 20200193417
    Abstract: Systems and methods for token and transaction management are disclosed. According to one embodiment, in an issuer wallet server comprising at least one computer processor, a method for token and transaction management may include: (1) receiving a update for an attribute for a Device WalletID or an issuer wallet application executed by an electronic device; (2) providing the update to the issuer wallet application; (3) providing the update to a third party wallet server associated with a third party wallet application executed by the electronic device, wherein the third party wallet server communicates the update to the third party wallet application; and (4) updating the attribute in the Device WalletID.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Tuan Dao, Howard Spector, Raghuram Vudathu, Yunchul Bryan Jeon, Rajitha Dissanayake, Sunil Mathur
  • Publication number: 20200193506
    Abstract: A system and method of storing purchase card information to enable a consumer to make purchases without carrying a separate purchase card for a plurality of accounts at disparate financial institutions. The system and method may additionally provide a consumer with vendor product and service offerings in a format common across multiple vendors. The system and method may also provide the consumer with a way to pay for products and services using purchase card information stored by an exemplary embodiment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Richard A. Hall, James P. White, III, Eric Han Kai Chang, Scott H. Ouellette, Winter P. Ng, Howard Spector, Benjamin H. Sansom, Erin Michelle Perry
  • Publication number: 20200177576
    Abstract: Systems and methods for securely calling APIs on an API gateway from applications that need first party authentication are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method may include: (1) receiving, from a protected service, an authentication system token/cookie identifier, a first plurality of user identifying attributes, and a request to create an oAuth access token; (2) creating an attribute string; (3) encrypting the attribute string with a private key, resulting in the oAuth access token; (4) sending the oAuth access token to the first party computer application; (5) receiving, from the first party computer application, a request to access a backend service, a second plurality of user identifying attributes, and the oAuth access token; (6) decrypting the oAuth access token; (7) validating the decrypted oAuth access token; (8) inserting the authentication system token/cookie identifier into the request to access; and (9) communicating the request to the backend service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Raghuram VUDATHU, Howard SPECTOR
  • Publication number: 20200134657
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating payments and reward tracking are disclosed. In one embodiment, in a merchant information processing apparatus comprising at least one computer processor, a method for facilitating customer payments and reward tracking may include: (1) providing an interface for accessing a financial institution backend in a merchant interface; (2) receiving user information from the financial institution backend; (3) generating a merchant loyalty account for the user based on the user information received from the financial institution backend; and (4) providing merchant loyalty account information to the financial institution backend.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Ralph DARMO, Jeffrey E. MILLER, Howard SPECTOR, Allison BEER
  • Publication number: 20200059477
    Abstract: In one embodiment, in an information processing apparatus comprising at least one computer processor, a method for binding a GET/AUTHORIZE URL to a proxy through a native application may include: (1) receiving, at a native application executed by an electronic device, an applink call or a universal link call from a third-party application executed by the electronic device, the redirect comprising at least one parameter; (2) providing a Get/Authorize call with the at least one parameter to an API gateway; (3) receiving a 302 redirect from the API gateway; (4) providing authentication information to an authorization platform; (5) receiving an authorization code from the authorization platform; and (6) redirecting the third-party application with the redirect URL and authorization code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Gayathri SUNDAR, Howard SPECTOR, Rajitha DISSANAYAKE
  • Publication number: 20200034870
    Abstract: Systems and methods for out-of-band, time-based matching for applying issuer benefits to a transaction are disclosed. In one embodiment, in an issuer authorization platform comprising at least one computer processor, a method for out-of-band, time-based matching for applying issuer benefits to a transaction may include: (1) receiving, from a computer application executed by an electronic device and over a communication network, a payment option to apply to a transaction conducted with a merchant; (2) receiving, from a payment network, an authorization request for the transaction from the merchant; (3) matching the payment option to the authorization request when the payment option and the authorization request are received within a predetermined time of each other; and (4) applying the payment option to the transaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Tuan DAO, Raymond H. BROWN, JR., Sangameswara Rao PANCHOMARTHI, Howard SPECTOR, Ryan EVANS, Joshua D. PETERS, Mizan MIAH
  • Publication number: 20190385151
    Abstract: System and methods for managing third party tokens and transaction across issuer ecosystems are disclosed. In one embodiment, in an information processing device comprising at least one computer processor, a method for managing payment tokens may include: (1) a first computer program associated with a financial institution and executed by the information processing device accessing a payment token associated with a second computer program executed by the information processing device; (2) the first computer program identifying the payment token as associated with a financial instrument issued by the financial institution; (3) a backend for the financial institution generating an association between the payment token and the financial institution; and (4) the backend for the financial institution communicating the association to an authorization platform for the financial institution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Tuan Dao, Howard Spector, Craig Mullaney, Ayman Hammad, Stanley M. Devan, Soumyajit Ghosh, Sangameswara Panchomarthi
  • Publication number: 20190378131
    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: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: Allison BEER, Howard SPECTOR, Seth M. GOLDKRANTZ
  • Publication number: 20190370790
    Abstract: Systems and methods for using a cryptogram lockbox are disclosed. In one embodiment, in a merchant-specific cryptogram lockbox comprising at least one computer processor, a method for generating a cryptogram locally using a cryptogram lockbox may include: (1) receiving, from merchant backend, a request for a cryptogram comprising an account identifier received from a customer in a transaction; (2) generating a cryptogram for the account identifier using a limited use key for the account identifier; and (3) returning the cryptogram to the merchant backend. The merchant may conduct the transaction using the cryptogram.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Howard SPECTOR, Eric L. CONNOLLY, David Christopher CAREY, Gayathri SUNDAR, Raghuram VUDATHU, Ankur KULSHRESHTHA, Ishank PAHARIA, Pavan MUMMAREDDI, Benjamin BRANDT, Mervin Majella FELIX, Ajith CHANDRAN KARUVATHIL, Arun NEELAN, Rajeeva Chandra NAGARAKANTI, Venkata KUNAM
  • Publication number: 20190370768
    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: May 30, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Howard SPECTOR, Krishna K. BHAGAVATULA, Scott H. OUELLETTE, Winter P. NG, Devin C. MOORE