Patents by Inventor John Wankmueller

John Wankmueller 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: 9911121
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for conducting a secure transaction involving generation of a dynamic authentication code on a mobile device, based on secret data which does not identify an account. The authentication code and financial account identifying information are transmitted to a validating entity, which shares information about the secret data, to authorize the transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventor: John Wankmueller
  • Patent number: 9514458
    Abstract: A Chip Authentication Program based on 3-D Secure protocols is provided for authenticating customers' on-line transactions. An issuer, who may be a payment card issuer, operates Access Control and Authentication Request Servers for authenticating transactions by individual customers who are identified by their personal EMV-complaint smart cards. An authentication token is generated at the point of interaction (POI) for each transaction based on information from the customer's smart card and transaction specific information sent directly by the issuer to populate a web page at the POI. Authentication tokens generated at the POI are evaluated by the Authentication Request Server to authenticate individual customer and/or card presence at the transaction POI. Authentication values are transported on-line in designated Universal Cardholder Authentication Fields consistent with 3-D Secure protocols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Bruce Rutherford, Alfred Dagher, Mark Wiseman, Didier Jean Marie Charles Paie, Jean-Paul Edmond Rans, Fikret Ates, John Wankmueller
  • Publication number: 20160300219
    Abstract: A personal powered proximity payment device that can be owned by or issued to an individual user is provided. The device can be a non-ISO card device that includes an internal dual-mode (contact and contactless) chip card coupled to a display and a robust PIN entry or biometric reading means. The device can provide proximity payment functions, and optional proximity payment on/off and local pre-purchase account holder verification functions to individual users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Applicant: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Elizabeth M. Foran-Owens, John Wankmueller, Cristian Radu
  • Patent number: 9401063
    Abstract: A personal powered proximity payment device that can be owned by or issued to an individual user is provided. The device is a non-ISO card device that includes an internal dual-mode (contact and contactless) chip card coupled to a display and a robust PIN entry or biometric reading means. The device provides proximity payment functions, and optional proximity payment on/off and local pre-purchase account holder verification functions to the individual user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Elizabeth M. Foran-Owens, John Wankmueller, Cristian Radu
  • Patent number: 8627080
    Abstract: Methods and systems for mutual authentication and personalizing a transaction device, such as a payment, transaction, or identity card. Successively generated one time codes are calculated by a first and second entity. One of the codes is transmitted to the second entity, which verifies the code is proper, then encrypts a second one time code using a third one time code and transmits the encrypted data to the first entity. The first entity decrypts the data using the third one time code, verifies the encrypted second one time code is proper, thereby mutually authenticating, and establishing a shared encryption key for subsequent communications, including transmission of personalization data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: MasterCard International Incorporated
    Inventors: John Wankmueller, Dave Anthony Roberts, Paul Michael Evans
  • Patent number: 8555358
    Abstract: A secure electronic payment system and method for conducting a secure transaction using voice authentication is provided. A merchant's computer transmits an authorization request to an access control server. The access control server places a telephone call to the purchaser and performs voice authentication to confirm the identity of the purchaser. The access control server then transmits a response to the merchant's computer. If the purchaser is authorized to access the account, payment is processed by the merchant and the transaction is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: MasterCard International Incorporated
    Inventor: John Wankmueller
  • Patent number: 8527427
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for conducting a transaction involving transmission of a dynamic authentication code in place of a static PIN block using currently existing messaging standards or PIN acceptance devices. Minimal changes to existing processes an equipment are made while greatly improving security and fraud minimization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: MasterCard International Incorporated
    Inventor: John Wankmueller
  • Publication number: 20120303960
    Abstract: Methods and systems for mutual authentication and personalizing a transaction device, such as a payment, transaction, or identity card. Successively generated one time codes are calculated by a first and second entity. One of the codes is transmitted to the second entity, which verifies the code is proper, then encrypts a second one time code using a third one time code and transmits the encrypted data to the first entity. The first entity decrypts the data using the third one time code, verifies the encrypted second one time code is proper, thereby mutually authenticating, and establishing a shared encryption key for subsequent communications, including transmission of personalization data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Inventors: John Wankmueller, Dave Anthony Roberts, Paul Michael Evans
  • Patent number: 8317109
    Abstract: A payment device includes a memory, a processor coupled to the memory, a communications module coupled to the processor and configured to interact with a payment terminal, a sound-producing element coupled to the processor, and an associated body portion. The memory is configured to store at least one representation of at least one sound and the processor is configured to cause the sound-producing element to produce a sound corresponding to the at least one representation of the at least one sound when such representation is stored in the memory, responsive to the communications module interacting with the payment terminal, substantially without usage of a battery on the device. Visual stimuli can be employed in addition to or in lieu of sounds. Sounds can be downloaded to devices with or without batteries, as part of a service offering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Mastercard International Incorporated
    Inventors: Leland Stanford Englebardt, John Wankmueller, David A Roberts
  • Patent number: 8255688
    Abstract: Methods and systems for mutual authentication and personalizing a transaction device, such as a payment, transaction, or identity card. Successively generated one time codes are calculated by a first and second entity. One of the codes is transmitted to the second entity, which verifies the code is proper, then encrypts a second one time code using a third one time code and transmits the encrypted data to the first entity. The first entity decrypts the data using the third one time code, verifies the encrypted second one time code is proper, thereby mutually authenticating, and establishing a shared encryption key for subsequent communications, including transmission of personalization data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: MasterCard International Incorporated
    Inventors: John Wankmueller, Dave Anthony Roberts, Paul Michael Evans
  • Patent number: 8150767
    Abstract: A method is provided for conducting a transaction over a computer network (such as the Internet) where the remote wallet server conducts a transaction with a merchant computer in a format substantially compliant with a chip card electronic commerce protocol or specification, regardless of whether or not the payment card of the consumer involved in the transaction is a chip card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: MasterCard International Incorporated
    Inventor: John Wankmueller
  • Patent number: 8151335
    Abstract: A proxy authentication method and apparatus is described for use in user authentication, e.g. for payment transactions. The authentication is carried out before the transaction between a electronic, e.g. digital identification device and a person terminal. Verification information is entered at the personal terminal to authenticate the user and if this is successful a verification flag is set in the digital identification device. The status of this flag, or an encrypted version thereof can be used by a transaction terminal of evidence that the user has been authenticated without having to transmit any secret identification information to the transaction terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: MasterCard International Incorporated
    Inventors: John Wankmueller, Cristian Radu, David Anthony Roberts
  • Publication number: 20110309154
    Abstract: A payment device includes a memory, a processor coupled to the memory, a communications module coupled to the processor and configured to interact with a payment terminal, a sound-producing element coupled to the processor, and an associated body portion. The memory is configured to store at least one representation of at least one sound and the processor is configured to cause the sound-producing element to produce a sound corresponding to the at least one representation of the at least one sound when such representation is stored in the memory, responsive to the communications module interacting with the payment terminal, substantially without usage of a battery on the device. Visual stimuli can be employed in addition to or in lieu of sounds. Sounds can be downloaded to devices with or without batteries, as part of a service offering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: MasterCard International Incorporated
    Inventors: Leland Stanford Englebardt, John Wankmueller, David A. Roberts
  • Patent number: 7988058
    Abstract: A payment device includes a memory, a processor coupled to the memory, a communications module coupled to the processor and configured to interact with a payment terminal, a sound-producing element coupled to the processor, and an associated body portion. The memory is configured to store at least one representation of at least one sound and the processor is configured to cause the sound-producing element to produce a sound corresponding to the at least one representation of the at least one sound when such representation is stored in the memory, responsive to the communications module interacting with the payment terminal, substantially without usage of a battery on the device. Visual stimuli can be employed in addition to or in lieu of sounds. Sounds can be downloaded to devices with or without batteries, as part of a service offering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Mastercard International Incorporated
    Inventors: Leland Stanford Englebardt, John Wankmueller, David A. Roberts
  • Publication number: 20110047036
    Abstract: A personal powered proximity payment device that can be owned by or issued to an individual user is provided. The device is a non-ISO card device that includes an internal dual-mode (contact and contactless) chip card coupled to a display and a robust PIN entry or biometric reading means. The device provides proximity payment functions, and optional proximity payment on/off and local pre-purchase account holder verification functions to the individual user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2007
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Applicant: MASTER CARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Elizabeth M. Foran-Owens, John Wankmueller, Cristian Radu
  • Publication number: 20100228668
    Abstract: A proximity device transmits a first dynamic authentication value contactlessly to a terminal. The first authentication value is included in a discretionary data field of message data arranged in an ISO Track 1 and/or ISO Track 2 format. Message data is sent from the terminal to an issuer. The issuer separately derives a second authentication value and compares it with the first authentication value. An identifier associated with the primary account number (PAN) is also used and transmitted instead of the PAN.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Inventors: Edward J. Hogan, Carl M. Campbell, John Wankmueller, Gilles Garon
  • Publication number: 20100223186
    Abstract: A proximity device transmits a first dynamic authentication value contactlessly to a terminal. The first authentication value is included in a discretionary data field of message data arranged in an ISO Track 1 and/or ISO Track 2 format. Message data is sent from the terminal to an issuer. The issuer separately derives a second authentication value and compares it with the first authentication value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Inventors: Edward J. Hogan, Carl M. Campbell, John Wankmueller, Gilles Garon
  • Patent number: 7636694
    Abstract: An apparatus and method by which a user or cardholder can be given an Electronic-Commerce PIN that bears no discernible relation to the ATM PIN, but from which the ATM PIN can be cryptographically determined using the cardholder's account number and an issuer-unique “conversion” secret key. The intent is that the Maestro Master Debit Switch, or else the Member Interface Processor, whichever is appropriate to a given issuer, can “convert” an Electronic-Commerce PIN to an ATM PIN, so that the member, by verifying the ATM PIN, is in effect verifying the Electronic-Commerce PIN. If the Electronic-Commerce PIN is entered incorrectly, it will convert into an incorrect ATM PIN. Thus the member's EDP facility need not deal with two PINs, yet the ATM PIN is not exposed to possible compromise in PCs or other electronic-commerce equipment. The suggested approach ensures that any disclosure of the Electronic-Commerce PIN does not disclose the ATM PIN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2009
    Assignee: Mastercard International Incorporated
    Inventors: John Wankmueller, Carl Campbell
  • Publication number: 20090185687
    Abstract: Methods and systems for mutual authentication and personalizing a transaction device, such as a payment, transaction, or identity card. Successively generated one time codes are calculated by a first and second entity. One of the codes is transmitted to the second entity, which verifies the code is proper, then encrypts a second one time code using a third one time code and transmits the encrypted data to the first entity. The first entity decrypts the data using the third one time code, verifies the encrypted second one time code is proper, thereby mutually authenticating, and establishing a shared encryption key for subsequent communications, including transmission of personalization data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2008
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Inventors: John Wankmueller, Dave Anthony Roberts, Paul Michael Evans
  • Publication number: 20080179403
    Abstract: A payment device includes a memory, a processor coupled to the memory, a communications module coupled to the processor and configured to interact with a payment terminal, a sound-producing element coupled to the processor, and an associated body portion. The memory is configured to store at least one representation of at least one sound and the processor is configured to cause the sound-producing element to produce a sound corresponding to the at least one representation of the at least one sound when such representation is stored in the memory, responsive to the communications module interacting with the payment terminal, substantially without usage of a battery on the device Visual stimuli can be employed in addition to or in lieu of sounds. Sounds can be downloaded to devices with or without batteries, as part of a service offering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Applicant: MasterCard International Incorporated
    Inventors: Leland Stanford Endlebardt, John Wankmueller, David A. Roberts