Patents by Inventor Jean HIGGINS

Jean HIGGINS 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: 20160232524
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing payment network transactions to a group account associated with a group are disclosed. One example system includes a memory including a data structure. The data structure includes transaction data representing multiple payment network transactions to the group account. Each of the multiple transactions is identified, in the transaction data, to one of multiple members of the group. The system includes a processor coupled to the memory and configured to cause a member interface to be displayed at a computing device associated with a first member of the group. The member interface includes a first indicator associated with the first member and representative of transactions identified to the first member, and the member interface includes a second indicator associated with a second member of the group and representative of one or more transactions identified to the second member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2015
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Inventors: Robert Shawn Barrale, John Patrick Goodwin, Jean Higgins, Marlowe Felipe Valdeabella, Kate Andrea Fischer, Elaine Keating, Jeremiah-Richard Tim Bright, Carolyn Ann Esposito, Susanne Manning, Tammy Lynn Hawkins, Robert Campion, Joseph Walter Parker, Michael Anthony Cronin
  • Publication number: 20150324767
    Abstract: A method for processing a transaction relating to a purchase and refunding a tax paid on the purchase. The method comprises receiving, over a network from a merchant apparatus, payment transaction data relating to a payment transaction associated with an electronic payment card; analyzing the payment transaction data to determine whether the payment transaction is eligible for a tax refund; determining a tax refund value corresponding to the payment transaction; determining that the payment transaction is authorised for a tax refund, and coordinating with at least an issuer associated with the electronic payment card in order to credit an account associated with the electronic payment card with the tax refund value. The invention is also expressed as a computing platform configured to perform the method steps previously described, and also to a system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: MasterCard International Incorporated
    Inventors: Julie WALSH, Jean HIGGINS, Susanne MANNING, Elaine KEATING, Maximino ARCEO, Kosta KRAUTH, Robert CAMPION, Ciara HICKEY
  • Patent number: 7584131
    Abstract: There is provided a no-blackout migration process for migrating plans between record keeping systems with continuous and uninterrupted client and participant access to the plans being migrated comprising the steps of: moving a plan to a staging data storage, extracting plan data, converting a financial data subset, converting all extracted plan data to converted plan data having a second format, transmitting the converted plan data to a second system data storage and loading to a second system data storage wherein the majority of the converted plan data loaded into the second system data storage is loaded through execution of a bulk copy program, executing post-import comparisons and auto-reconciliation jobs and executing a correction process if the second plan does not correspond to the selected plan in the first system, activating the second plan and deactivating the original plan, and migrating and loading pending transactions into the second data storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2009
    Assignee: Ameriprise Financial, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Harold Kurtz, Brian Theodore Simonson, John William Borgstrom, Timothy J. Dubbs, Edward Newman, Claire Mary Berrett, Pamela Jean Higgins, Karen Ingrid Omtvedt