Patents by Inventor Jeffrey Aaron Ecker

Jeffrey Aaron Ecker 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: 20260080385
    Abstract: A method may include: causing a point-of-sale terminal processing a transaction to display a machine-readable code, the machine-readable code encoding a web address; receiving a request from a device that scanned the machine-readable code, the request received at the web address; in response to receiving the request, causing the device that scanned the machine-readable code to output an interface; receiving, through the interface, an input of an indication to separate the transaction into multiple transaction parts and one or more parameters indicating how the transaction is to be separated; and sending, to the point-of-sale terminal, a message that configures the point-of-sale terminal to separate the transaction in accordance with the one or more parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2025
    Publication date: March 19, 2026
    Applicant: The Toronto-Dominion Bank
    Inventors: David Samuel TAX, Milos DUNJIC, Derek Richard CASTELL, Anthony Haituyen NGUYEN, Bryan Michael GLEESON, Jeffrey Aaron ECKER
  • Patent number: 12430629
    Abstract: A method may include: causing a point-of-sale terminal processing a transaction to display a machine-readable code, the machine-readable code encoding a web address; receiving a request from a device that scanned the machine-readable code, the request received at the web address; in response to receiving the request, causing the device that scanned the machine-readable code to output an interface; receiving, through the interface, an input of an indication to separate the transaction into multiple transaction parts and one or more parameters indicating how the transaction is to be separated; and sending, to the point-of-sale terminal, a message that configures the point-of-sale terminal to separate the transaction in accordance with the one or more parameters. The parameters may include an image captured at the device that scanned the machine-readable code. The server may determine a number of transaction parts from the image using image recognition having facial recognition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2025
    Assignee: The Toronto-Dominion Bank
    Inventors: David Samuel Tax, Milos Dunjic, Derek Richard Castell, Anthony Haituyen Nguyen, Bryan Michael Gleeson, Jeffrey Aaron Ecker
  • Patent number: 12277546
    Abstract: In some implementations, a method of providing contactless payments at a point of sale terminal includes: causing a point-of-sale terminal processing a transaction to display a machine-readable code, the machine-readable code encoding a web address; receiving a request from a device that scanned the machine-readable code, the request received at the web address; in response to receiving the request, causing the device that scanned the machine-readable code to output an interface that includes a prompt for input required to complete the transaction; receiving a response to the prompt; and sending an indication of the response to the prompt to the point-of-sale terminal to allow for completion of the transaction based on the response at the point-of-sale terminal through use of a physical token at the point-of-sale terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: The Toronto-Dominion Bank
    Inventors: Milos Dunjic, David Samuel Tax, Vipul Kishore Lalka, Bryan Michael Gleeson, Jeffrey Aaron Ecker, Derek Richard Castell, Anthony Haituyen Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20250117786
    Abstract: An authorization network includes a payment terminal and a loyalty program server. The payment terminal receives a preliminary transaction value, receives an account number from an EMV-compliant payment device, and determines an authorization value from a difference between the preliminary transaction value and a redemption value. The terminal initiates a funds transfer from a customer account associated with the account number in an amount equal to the authorization value by at least transmitting the account number and the authorization value to the payment device, receiving a cryptogram from the payment device, and confirming that the cryptogram was generated from the authorization value and from a cryptographic key uniquely associated with the payment device. The terminal initiates a funds transfer from a funding account to a merchant account by transmitting to the server a redemption request that includes the account number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventors: Jeffrey Aaron Ecker, Dinshaw Bharucha, Igor Elkhinovich
  • Patent number: 12062044
    Abstract: A payment terminal includes a card interface and a transaction processor. The terminal receives a preliminary authorization amount, and receives application data from a payment card that is interfaced with the card interface. The application data includes an account number that is uniquely associated with the payment card. The processor generates an adjusted authorization amount from the account number and the preliminary authorization amount, determines whether the adjusted authorization amount can be authorized offline, and transmits a cryptogram request to the payment card. The adjusted authorization amount is different from the preliminary authorization amount. The cryptogram request includes the adjusted authorization amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: The Toronto-Dominion Bank
    Inventors: Robert Hayhow, Igor Elkhinovich, Jeffrey Aaron Ecker
  • Patent number: 12008553
    Abstract: A session data processing network includes a POS terminal and at least one computer server. The POS terminal is configured to establish a secure communications session with a communications appliance, receive session data from the communications appliance via the communications session, extract a ledger identifier and a token from the session data, transmit an authorization request message and a rewards request message to the server. The authorization request message includes the ledger identifier and an authorization value. The rewards request message includes the token and requests a reward of loyalty points to a secondary ledger associated with the token. The server is configured to receive the authorization request message and the loyalty rewards request message, confirm authorization of a transaction in an amount equal to the authorization value from an account associated with the ledger identifier, and transmit to the POS terminal an authorization response message confirming the authorization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: The Toronto-Dominion Bank
    Inventors: Bryan Michael Gleeson, Igor Elkhinovich, Jeffrey Aaron Ecker, Adam Douglas McPhee, Matta Wakim, Kyryll Odobetskiy, Dmitri Rabinovich, John Jong-Suk Lee, Arun Victor Jagga
  • Patent number: 12008560
    Abstract: An on-boarding server is configured to receive a data set and a manufacturer identifier from a communications device, validate an identity of an entity from the data set, and locate a first terminal cryptographic key associated with the manufacturer identifier in a terminal database. The on-boarding server is configured to confirm, using the located first terminal cryptographic key, that the manufacturer identifier received from the communications device was signed with a second terminal cryptographic key. The located first terminal cryptographic key and the second terminal cryptographic key are an asymmetric cryptographic key pair. The on-boarding server is configured to determine an acquirer server from the data set, and authorize the entity to effect electronic payments by providing the communications device with a merchant identifier and transmitting the merchant identifier to the acquirer server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: The Toronto-Dominion Bank
    Inventors: Robert Hayhow, Jeffrey Aaron Ecker, Igor Elkhinovich, Keith Willard
  • Publication number: 20240144220
    Abstract: In an aspect a computer-implemented method is described. The method may include: causing a point-of-sale terminal processing a transaction to display a machine-readable code, the machine-readable code encoding a web address; receiving a request from a device that scanned the machine-readable code, the request received at the web address and the request including data; determining, based on data encoded in the machine-readable code and data included in the request, that the transaction may be processed using a value-added service; and in response to determining that the transaction may be processed using the value-added service, enabling completion of the transaction using the value-added service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: The Toronto-Dominion Bank
    Inventors: David Samuel TAX, Milos DUNJIC, Derek Richard CASTELL, Anthony Haituyen NGUYEN, Bryan Michael GLEESON, Jeffrey Aaron ECKER
  • Patent number: 11921836
    Abstract: A method for authenticating a wearable device is disclosed. The method includes: receiving, from a tokenization service provider (TSP), a signal representing a first code derived by the TSP from decrypting a security token previously provisioned in the computing device, wherein the security token was received at a terminal from the computing device and transmitted to the TSP; obtaining, based on the received signal representing the first code, a device identifier of the computing device and an identifier of an account; querying a device database to verify that the computing device is associated with a first status; verifying that the account is enabled for an operation initiated using the computing device; and transmitting an authorization message to the terminal, the authorization message authorizing the operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: The Toronto-Dominion Bank
    Inventors: Dino Paul D'Agostino, Perry Aaron Jones Haldenby, Dean C. N. Tseretopoulos, Jeffrey Aaron Ecker, Adam Douglas McPhee, Milos Dunjic, John Jong Suk Lee, Arun Victor Jagga
  • Patent number: 11907925
    Abstract: In an aspect a computer-implemented method is described. The method may include: causing a point-of-sale terminal processing a transaction to display a machine-readable code, the machine-readable code encoding a web address; receiving a request from a device that scanned the machine-readable code, the request received at the web address and the request including data; determining, based on data encoded in the machine-readable code and data included in the request, that the transaction may be processed using a value-added service; and in response to determining that the transaction may be processed using the value-added service, enabling completion of the transaction using the value-added service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: The Toronto-Dominion Bank
    Inventors: David Samuel Tax, Milos Dunjic, Derek Richard Castell, Anthony Haituyen Nguyen, Bryan Michael Gleeson, Jeffrey Aaron Ecker
  • Patent number: 11895095
    Abstract: The disclosed exemplary embodiments include computer-implemented systems, apparatuses, and processes that, among other things, authenticate device identity and authorize exchanges of data in real-time based on dynamically generated cryptographic data. For example, an apparatus may receive a first signal that includes a first cryptogram associated with a client device, and may perform operations that authenticate an identity of the client device based on a comparison of the received first cryptogram and a second cryptogram generated by a computing system associated with an application program executed by the client device. In response to the authenticated identity, the apparatus may load profile data associated with the client device from a storage unit, and perform operations consistent with the profile data in accordance with the authenticated identity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: The Toronto-Dominion Bank
    Inventors: Dino Paul D'Agostino, Perry Aaron Jones Haldenby, Dean C. N. Tseretopoulos, Jeffrey Aaron Ecker, Adam Douglas McPhee, Milos Dunjic, John Jong-Suk Lee, Arun Victor Jagga
  • Publication number: 20230306400
    Abstract: A method may include: causing a point-of-sale terminal processing a transaction to display a machine-readable code, the machine-readable code encoding a web address; receiving a request from a device that scanned the machine-readable code, the request received at the web address; in response to receiving the request, causing the device that scanned the machine-readable code to output an interface; receiving, through the interface, an input of an indication to separate the transaction into multiple transaction parts and one or more parameters indicating how the transaction is to be separated; and sending, to the point-of-sale terminal, a message that configures the point-of-sale terminal to separate the transaction in accordance with the one or more parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: The Toronto-Dominion Bank
    Inventors: David Samuel TAX, Milos DUNJIC, Derek Richard CASTELL, Anthony Haituyen NGUYEN, Bryan Michael GLEESON, Jeffrey Aaron ECKER
  • Publication number: 20230252464
    Abstract: An on-boarding server is configured to receive a data set and a manufacturer identifier from a communications device, validate an identity of an entity from the data set, and locate a first terminal cryptographic key associated with the manufacturer identifier in a terminal database. The on-boarding server is configured to confirm, using the located first terminal cryptographic key, that the manufacturer identifier received from the communications device was signed with a second terminal cryptographic key. The located first terminal cryptographic key and the second terminal cryptographic key are an asymmetric cryptographic key pair. The on-boarding server is configured to determine an acquirer server from the data set, and authorize the entity to effect electronic payments by providing the communications device with a merchant identifier and transmitting the merchant identifier to the acquirer server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Robert HAYHOW, Jeffrey Aaron Ecker, Igor Elkhinovich, Keith Willard
  • Publication number: 20230206212
    Abstract: In some implementations, a method of providing contactless payments at a point of sale terminal includes: causing a point-of-sale terminal processing a transaction to display a machine-readable code, the machine-readable code encoding a web address; receiving a request from a device that scanned the machine-readable code, the request received at the web address; in response to receiving the request, causing the device that scanned the machine-readable code to output an interface that includes a prompt for input required to complete the transaction; receiving a response to the prompt; and sending an indication of the response to the prompt to the point-of-sale terminal to allow for completion of the transaction based on the response at the point-of-sale terminal through use of a physical token at the point-of-sale terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: The Toronto-Dominion Bank
    Inventors: Milos DUNJIC, David Samuel TAX, Vipul Kishore LALKA, Bryan Michael GLEESON, Jeffrey Aaron ECKER, Derek Richard CASTELL, Anthony Haituyen NGUYEN
  • Patent number: 11669820
    Abstract: A method may include: causing a point-of-sale terminal processing a transaction to display a machine-readable code, the machine-readable code encoding a web address; receiving a request from a device that scanned the machine-readable code, the request received at the web address; in response to receiving the request, causing the device that scanned the machine-readable code to output an interface; receiving, through the interface, an input of an indication to separate the transaction into multiple transaction parts and one or more parameters indicating how the transaction is to be separated; and sending, to the point-of-sale terminal, a message that configures the point-of-sale terminal to separate the transaction in accordance with the one or more parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: The Toronto-Dominion Bank
    Inventors: David Samuel Tax, Milos Dunjic, Derek Richard Castell, Anthony Haituyen Nguyen, Bryan Michael Gleeson, Jeffrey Aaron Ecker
  • Patent number: 11657392
    Abstract: An on-boarding server is configured to receive a data set and a manufacturer identifier from a communications device, validate an identity from the data set, and locate a first terminal cryptographic key associated with the manufacturer identifier in a terminal database. The on-boarding server is configured to confirm, using the located first terminal cryptographic key, that the manufacturer identifier received from the communications device was signed with a second terminal cryptographic key. The located first terminal cryptographic key and the second terminal cryptographic key are an asymmetric cryptographic key pair. The on-boarding server is configured to determine an acquirer server from the data set, provide the acquirer server with a merchant identifier, and download to the communications device a payload that includes the merchant identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: The Toronto-Dominion Bank
    Inventors: Robert Hayhow, Jeffrey Aaron Ecker, Igor Elkhinovich, Keith Willard
  • Patent number: 11636472
    Abstract: A terminal configuration server is configured to associate a terminal identifier with a cryptographic key set, and to provide a communications device with the terminal identifier and the cryptographic key set. The terminal configuration server is configured to receive the terminal identifier from the communications device via a communications network, and establish an encrypted tunnel with a terminal via the communications device and the cryptographic key set. The encrypted tunnel is encrypted end-to-end between the terminal configuration server and the terminal. The terminal configuration server is configured to receive a payload request from the terminal via the encrypted tunnel, locate a payload that is associated with the terminal identifier in the payload database, and download the located payload to the terminal via the encrypted tunnel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: The Toronto-Dominion Bank
    Inventors: Robert Hayhow, Jeffrey Aaron Ecker, Igor Elkhinovich, Keith Willard
  • Patent number: 11620636
    Abstract: In some implementations, a method of providing contactless payments at a point of sale terminal includes: causing a point-of-sale terminal processing a transaction to display a machine-readable code, the machine-readable code encoding a web address; receiving a request from a device that scanned the machine-readable code, the request received at the web address; in response to receiving the request, causing the device that scanned the machine-readable code to output an interface that includes a prompt for input required to complete the transaction; receiving a response to the prompt; and sending an indication of the response to the prompt to the point-of-sale terminal to allow for completion of the transaction based on the response at the point-of-sale terminal through use of a physical token at the point-of-sale terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: The Toronto-Dominion Bank
    Inventors: Milos Dunjic, David Samuel Tax, Vipul Kishore Lalka, Bryan Michael Gleeson, Jeffrey Aaron Ecker, Derek Richard Castell, Anthony Haituyen Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11562038
    Abstract: A data set integration system receives a first data set that includes a user identifier and a message type code. The integration system locates an object profile that is associated with the terminal identifier in a data repository. The located object profile includes a tracking identifier and a counter value. The integration system updates the counter value in the object profile in accordance with a value of the message type code. The integration system updates receives a second data set from a communications device. The second data set includes the tracking identifier. The integration system locates the counter value in the object profile that is associated with the tracking identifier, and transmits to the communications device a data payload that includes the updated counter value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: The Toronto-Dominion Bank
    Inventors: Jeffrey Aaron Ecker, Bryan Michael Gleeson, Adam Douglas McPhee, Matta Wakim, Kyryll Odobetskiy, Arun Victor Jagga, John Jong-Suk Lee, Rakesh Thomas Jethwa
  • Patent number: 11562354
    Abstract: A terminal configuration server is configured to save a manufacturer identifier in a terminal database, in association with a merchant identifier. The manufacturer identifier identifies a terminal. The terminal configuration server is configured to transmit the merchant identifier to a communications device via a communications network, and to receive from the communications device via the communications network, a terminal identifier request that includes the manufacturer identifier and the merchant identifier. The terminal configuration server is configured to verify that the manufacturer identifier, included in the terminal identifier request, is associated with the merchant identifier in the terminal database, and to download a payload to the terminal via the communications device after verifying the manufacturer identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: The Toronto-Dominion Bank
    Inventors: Robert Hayhow, Jeffrey Aaron Ecker, Igor Elkhinovich, Keith Willard