Patents by Inventor John CLERKIN

John CLERKIN 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: 20180060841
    Abstract: Provided are a method and system for effecting a pre-paid redeemable transaction. The method comprises generating payment request data associated with a benefactor on a payer application; the payment request data comprises redeemable payment data associated with a predetermined beneficiary which is valid for a predetermined time period. The payment request data is forwarded from the payer application to a payment server. The payment server initates a payment transaction from a source account associated with the benefactor to a predetermined account in response to receiving the payment request data. The payment transaction is refunded to the source account from the predetermined account if the beneficiary fails to validate the redeemable payment data within the predetermined time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Ramson Tutte, John Clerkin, Ronan O'Mullane
  • Patent number: 9875385
    Abstract: A method for transmitting line item data from an electronic receipt comprising storing a plurality of receipt data entries affiliated with a consumer account based on a consumer identifier. The method comprises storing a plurality of merchant identifiers affiliated with one or more product data files for products sold by a merchant. The method further receives a transaction message for a payment transaction using the consumer identifier via a payment network and executes a query on the electronic receipt database from a first consumer device to identify one or more products purchased in the payment transaction. The method generates an electronic receipt displaying purchase information for the one or more products and links the purchase information on the electronic receipt to the product data file for the one or more products for transmittal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Derek Humphreys, Stephen Elder, Edward Kilbane, Ramson Tutte, John Clerkin, Adam Kenneth Hosp, Sarah Louise Cunningham, Rebecca Fredric, Paul Lawless
  • Publication number: 20160379215
    Abstract: A method for facilitating supervisory control of payment transactions initiated using a computing device includes: storing account profiles, each including a first identifier, second identifier, and transaction controls; receiving transaction details from a second device for a payment transaction, the transaction details including a second identifier and transaction data values; identifying a specific profile that includes the second identifier; determining that the payment transaction does not satisfy the transaction controls in the specific profile based the transaction data values; transmitting a confirmation request including the transaction data values to the first device associated with the first identifier in the specific profile; receiving a confirmation message from the first device indicating approval or denial of the payment transaction; and transmitting a message to at least one of: the second device, a payment network, and a merchant involved in the payment transaction based on the indication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: MasterCard International Incorporated
    Inventor: John CLERKIN