Patents by Inventor John William Schmidt

John William Schmidt 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: 20230206245
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for blocking charges from a merchant to a payment account of a user. An exemplary system may include one or more memory devices storing instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform various operations. The operations may include receiving, from the user, a dispute request to dispute a charge to the payment account applied by the merchant. In response to the dispute request, the operations may include determining whether to block subsequent charges applied by the merchant to the payment account, based on a history of charging activities of the merchant. Responsive to a determination to block subsequent charges, the operations may include adding the merchant to a block-charge list associated with the payment account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey SAMITT, Zeel Maharshi JHA, Colleen KERR, Henry Feer JOYCE, Joshua M. WILBUR, John William SCHMIDT, Krystle VOSS, Riken SHAH
  • Patent number: 11631084
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for blocking charges from a merchant to a payment account of a user. An exemplary system may include one or more memory devices storing instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform various operations. The operations may include receiving, from the user, a dispute request to dispute a charge to the payment account applied by the merchant. In response to the dispute request, the operations may include determining whether to block subsequent charges applied by the merchant to the payment account, based on a history of charging activities of the merchant. Responsive to a determination to block subsequent charges, the operations may include adding the merchant to a block-charge list associated with the payment account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Samitt, Zeel Maharshi Jha, Colleen Kerr, Henry Feer Joyce, Joshua M. Wilbur, John William Schmidt, Krystle Voss, Riken Shah
  • Publication number: 20200058027
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for blocking charges from a merchant to a payment account of a user. An exemplary system may include one or more memory devices storing instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform various operations. The operations may include receiving, from the user, a dispute request to dispute a charge to the payment account applied by the merchant. In response to the dispute request, the operations may include determining whether to block subsequent charges applied by the merchant to the payment account, based on a history of charging activities of the merchant. Responsive to a determination to block subsequent charges, the operations may include adding the merchant to a block-charge list associated with the payment account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey SAMITT, Zeel Maharshi JHA, Colleen KERR, Henry Feer JOYCE, Joshua M. WILBUR, John William SCHMIDT, Krystle VOSS, Riken SHAH
  • Patent number: 10482467
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for blocking charges from a merchant to a payment account of a user. An exemplary system may include one or more memory devices storing instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform various operations. The operations may include receiving, from the user, a dispute request to dispute a charge to the payment account applied by the merchant. In response to the dispute request, the operations may include determining whether to block subsequent charges applied by the merchant to the payment account, based on a history of charging activities of the merchant. Responsive to a determination to block subsequent charges, the operations may include adding the merchant to a block-charge list associated with the payment account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Samitt, Zeel Maharshi Jha, Colleen Kerr, Henry Feer Joyce, Joshua M. Wilbur, John William Schmidt, Krystle Voss, Riken Shah
  • Publication number: 20140067596
    Abstract: A system, method, and apparatus for recommending products and services are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a recommendation engine configured to determine salable items purchased by a consumer, the salable items including salable items purchased from a plurality of merchants and from a plurality of salable item categories and receive a rating from the consumer for each of the purchased salable items. The recommendation engine is also configured to determine cohort consumers from among consumers by selecting consumers who have purchased at least some of the salable items and rated those salable items similar to the ratings provided by the consumer. The recommendation engine determines salable items to recommend for each salable item category by determining recommendable salable items from direct and/or inferential matching based on other salable items purchased by the cohort consumers. The recommendation engine transmits information associated with at least some of the recommendable salable items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: Cobrain Company
    Inventors: Robert J. McGovern, John William Schmidt