Patents by Inventor James G. Ronca

James G. Ronca 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: 20130080270
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, a transaction device for performing a transaction between a customer and a merchant comprises an account selection engine and a communication link. The account selection engine operable to receive information identifying at least one characteristic of a proposed transaction, identify a plurality of accounts associated with the customer, and select a first account from among the plurality of accounts based on the at least one characteristic. The communication link is operable to transmit identification of the first account to a point of sale interface of a transaction device, the point of sale interface operable to transmit a transaction request to a point of sale receiver associated with the merchant, the transaction request comprising an account number associated with the first account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicant: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: James G. Ronca, Mark D. Zanzot, Christopher R. Griggs, Lisa Gibson
  • Publication number: 20120030107
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating transaction records with imaging are described. Data representative of a transaction of a user may be received and a transaction record for the transaction may be generated. A user request to withdraw an amount of monetary funds from an account associated with the transaction may be received. At least one captured image of the user during the transaction may be associated with the transaction record. Monetary funds from the account in the amount requested by the user may be outputted, and the transaction record may be stored in a database. Upon determining the amount of monetary funds requested for withdrawal exceeds a first threshold, at least one image of the user may be captured, and a copy of the at least one captured image of the user or a link to the at least one captured image may be stored in the transaction record.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lisa Gibson, James G. Ronca, Kerry Cantley
  • Publication number: 20090092309
    Abstract: Image integrity in an archive can be verified using document characteristics. Embodiments of the invention provide a way to verify the integrity of a stored document image by determining document characteristics, which can also be embedded in the image file. Before allowing access to the image file by an application, the characteristics data from an image analysis can be compared to either or both of, characteristics information otherwise stored, or embedded characteristics data. The embedded data can optionally be encrypted. In example embodiments the data can include a result of an optical character recognition of contents of the document, a length of data describing the image, a percentage of a specified color of pixels in the image, or a checksum. Example embedding techniques can include those making use of a tagged image file format (TIFF) header, a steganographic watermark, or an image artifact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2007
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Applicant: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Matthew A. Calman, Lisa Gibson, Lowell R. Huff, James G. Ronca
  • Patent number: 7421153
    Abstract: A system and method for processing financial information is provided. A client request may be received through an application program interface (API). A first set of data based on the client request may be retrieved through the API from a first information repository comprising information on debit transactions and credit transactions. The first set of results may be transmitted to the client application for display. A second client request based on the first set of results may be received through the API from the client application, and a second set of data may be retrieved through the API from a second information repository comprising information on credit transactions and component deposit items. The second set of results may be transmitted back to the client application for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: James G. Ronca, David T. Frew
  • Publication number: 20080104022
    Abstract: A document indexing and delivery system is disclosed. Embodiments of the present invention provide an agent-based delivery platform to supply financial document images in a variety of formats to fulfill requests from various clients of an image processing system at a financial institution. Workflows can be created using extensible markup language (XML) to direct the operation of the system. Software agents on the system can include a client agent, a delivery agent, an index agent, a format agent, an image agent, and/or a workflow agent. The workflow agent manages the execution of the workflow. Images and relevant data can be located using a master index residing in partitioned, high-speed databases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2006
    Publication date: May 1, 2008
    Applicant: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventor: James G. Ronca