Patents by Inventor Mark Woelfer

Mark Woelfer 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: 20200118230
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and techniques for reducing the submission of disputes as well as increasing the efficiency of disputes processed via a dispute resolution process. The system enables additional information related to a conducted transaction to be provided via application programming interface calls made to a resource provider. In some embodiments, the system described receives a dispute request from client computing device pertaining to a conducted transaction, the dispute request including a transaction identifier associated with the conducted transaction, determines a resource provider associated with the conducted transaction, provides, to the resource provider, an alert notification indicating the dispute request, the alert notification including at least the transaction identifier, and receives, from the resource provider within the predetermined period of time, a credit notification for the conducted transaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Mark Woelfer, Richard Stopic
  • Patent number: 10572880
    Abstract: When an account holder contacts the issuer of the account to dispute a transaction conducted with a merchant using the account, the issuer may request additional transaction details, such as purchased item level details, from the merchant via the merchant integrated dispute resolution platform. A real-time purchase inquiry sent to the merchant may request purchase information or transaction information (e.g. purchased item details, order information, order history, shipping and delivery information, etc.) associated with the transaction. The merchant may send a real-time response to the merchant integrated dispute resolution platform which may forward all or a portion of the received information to the issuer in real-time. The entire communication between the issuer, the merchant integrated dispute resolution platform and the merchant may be a sessionless (or stateless) communication, i.e. all communication among the parties may occur in a single session which may last 10 seconds or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Richard Stopic, David Richey, Elizabeth Chaffin, Mark Woelfer, Stacey Jess
  • Publication number: 20160034906
    Abstract: When an account holder contacts the issuer of the account to dispute a transaction conducted with a merchant using the account, the issuer may request additional transaction details, such as purchased item level details, from the merchant via the merchant integrated dispute resolution platform. A real-time purchase inquiry sent to the merchant may request purchase information or transaction information (e.g. purchased item details, order information, order history, shipping and delivery information, etc.) associated with the transaction. The merchant may send a real-time response to the merchant integrated dispute resolution platform which may forward all or a portion of the received information to the issuer in real-time. The entire communication between the issuer, the merchant integrated dispute resolution platform and the merchant may be a sessionless (or stateless) communication, i.e. all communication among the parties may occur in a single session which may last 10 seconds or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: Richard Stopic, David Richey, Elizabeth Chaffin, Mark Woelfer, Stacey Jess