Patents by Inventor Mary Elizabeth Lawson

Mary Elizabeth Lawson 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: 10459935
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer-readable media are disclosed for generating integrated data records by correlating source data records stored at different registry source data repositories. A set of source data records is retrieved based on execution of one or more search queries against a set of registry source data repositories. A data record matching rule is selected for execution on the set of source data records. The matching rule specifies one or more input properties, each of which specifies at least one data field designator, and optionally, a matching algorithm and an input property match threshold value. The matching rule is executed on pairwise combinations of source data records to obtain a set of matched source data records. An integrated data record is generated and populated with respective data from each of one or more of the matched source data records. The integrated data record is linked to each source record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: FISERV, INC.
    Inventors: Mark Edward Bowman, Vikram Gupta, Phillip Andrew Schroder, Gregory David Smelker, Amirali Sunderji, Mary Elizabeth Lawson, Timothy Allen Ruhe
  • Publication number: 20170053357
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer-readable media are disclosed for generating integrated data records by correlating source data records stored at different registry source data repositories. A set of source data records is retrieved based on execution of one or more search queries against a set of registry source data repositories. A data record matching rule is selected for execution on the set of source data records. The matching rule specifies one or more input properties, each of which specifies at least one data field designator, and optionally, a matching algorithm and an input property match threshold value. The matching rule is executed on pairwise combinations of source data records to obtain a set of matched source data records. An integrated data record is generated and populated with respective data from each of one or more of the matched source data records. The integrated data record is linked to each source record.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventors: Mark Edward Bowman, Vikram Gupta, Phillip Andrew Schroder, Gregory David Smelker, Amirali Sunderji, Mary Elizabeth Lawson, Timothy Allen Ruhe
  • Publication number: 20150287001
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for facilitating enrollment of a payor for payor-scheduled-debit (PSD) payment processing according to which the payor may select various payment parameters such as a debit date on which debits will be posted to one or more financial accounts associated with the payor for payments made to one or more payees. A payor may be provided with the capability to schedule debits associated with payments made to one or more payees by a selecting a single debit date that precedes and/or follows various dates on which the one or more payees are credited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Inventors: Todd A. Weiss, Mary Elizabeth Lawson, Eric Anthony Miller
  • Patent number: 9130925
    Abstract: Systems and methods for personalized security management of online applications are provided. A determination may be made that a condition for constructing an increased authentication proposal for access to an online financial service is satisfied. The increased authentication proposal may be associated with (i) a user of the online financial service and (ii) a user request option associated with the online financial service. Based upon the determination that the condition is satisfied, the increased authentication proposal may be generated and transmitted for presentation to the user. An increased authentication proposal response may then be received, and the increased authentication proposal response may be processed in order to store, in association with the user and the user request option, (i) an indication of an increased authentication condition and (ii) an indication of an increased authentication mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: FISERV, INC.
    Inventors: Robert T. Homer, Mary Elizabeth Lawson, Donald Kenneth Hobday, Hans Daniel Dreyer
  • Publication number: 20150227904
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention may provide systems and methods for processing a payment coupon image. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an image representing a payment coupon from a payer, determining an identity of a biller associated with the payment coupon based at least in part on information displayed by the image, and extracting data from the image based at least in part on payment coupon metadata associated with the biller indicating a layout of the payment coupon. The method may further include performing at least one of: (a) processing a payment associated with the payment coupon to the biller based at least in part on the data extracted from the image; (b) adding the biller to a list of billers for a payer associated with the payment coupon; or (c) activating the biller as an electronic biller for the payer associated with the payment coupon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2015
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Inventors: Mary Elizabeth Lawson, Joseph Carl Dickerson, Barbara Wilson Whiteside, Donald Kenneth Hobday, Hans Daniel Dreyer
  • Publication number: 20150186856
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for facilitating enrollment of a payor for payor-scheduled-debit (PSD) payment processing according to which the payor may select various payment parameters such as a debit date on which debits will be posted to one or more financial accounts associated with the payor for payments made to one or more payees. A payor may be provided with the capability to schedule debits associated with payments made to one or more payees by a selecting a single debit date that precedes and/or follows various dates on which the one or more payees are credited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Inventors: Todd A. Weiss, Mary Elizabeth Lawson, Eric Anthony Miller
  • Publication number: 20150142663
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer-readable media for optimizing financial transactions are disclosed. Candidate source and target financial accounts may be respectively identified based on source and target identifiers. Respective candidate source payment networks configured to access each candidate source financial account and respective candidate target payment networks configured to access each candidate target financial account may be identified. Based at least in part on an analysis of one or more rules, a set of transaction options may be generated. Each transaction option may be associated with a particular combination of source and target financial accounts and payment networks and may further be associated with one or more transaction characteristics. Respective transaction options information associated with one or more of the transaction options may be transmitted and potentially presented to a financial transaction requestor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Mary Elizabeth Lawson, Andrew Montgomery Litt, Christopher Dean Stroud, Mark T. Harris
  • Publication number: 20150019416
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating payment due notifications are provided. A payor and a payee of the payor may be identified by a payment service provider system. At least one notification control parameter associated with communicating payment due notifications to the payor may be identified. Based at least in part upon evaluating a payment history associated with one or more payments made to the payee on behalf of the payor, a payment frequency pattern may be determined. Based at least in part on a portion of the payment history and the determined payment frequency pattern, a next expected payment date may be calculated. In accordance with the at least one notification control parameter, a payment due notification including an identity of the payee and the next expected payment date may be generated. The payment due notification may be transmitted to the payor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Mary Elizabeth Lawson, Cheryl L. Ward, Hans Daniel Dreyer
  • Publication number: 20140337942
    Abstract: Systems and methods for personalized security management of online applications are provided. A determination may be made that a condition for constructing an increased authentication proposal for access to an online financial service is satisfied. The increased authentication proposal may be associated with (i) a user of the online financial service and (ii) a user request option associated with the online financial service. Based upon the determination that the condition is satisfied, the increased authentication proposal may be generated and transmitted for presentation to the user. An increased authentication proposal response may then be received, and the increased authentication proposal response may be processed in order to store, in association with the user and the user request option, (i) an indication of an increased authentication condition and (ii) an indication of an increased authentication mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Inventors: Robert T. Homer, Mary Elizabeth Lawson, Donald Kenneth Hobday, Hans Daniel Dreyer
  • Publication number: 20140279459
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for facilitating enrollment of a payor for payor-scheduled-debit (PSD) payment processing according to which the payor may select various payment parameters such as a debit date on which debits will be posted to one or more financial accounts associated with the payor for payments made to one or more payees. A payor may be provided with the capability to schedule debits associated with payments made to one or more payees by a selecting a single debit date that precedes and/or follows various dates on which the one or more payees are credited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: FISERV, INC.
    Inventors: Todd A. Weiss, Mary Elizabeth Lawson, Eric Anthony Miller
  • Publication number: 20140279460
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for facilitating enrollment of a payor for payor-scheduled-debit (PSD) payment processing according to which the payor may select various payment parameters such as a debit date on which debits will be posted to one or more financial accounts associated with the payor for payments made to one or more payees. A payor may be provided with the capability to schedule debits associated with payments made to one or more payees by a selecting a single debit date that precedes and/or follows various dates on which the one or more payees are credited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: FISERV, INC.
    Inventors: Todd A. Weiss, Mary Elizabeth Lawson, Eric Anthony Miller
  • Patent number: 8781959
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating payment due notifications are provided. A payor and a payee of the payor may be identified by a payment service provider system. At least one notification control parameter associated with communicating payment due notifications to the payor may be identified. Based at least in part upon evaluating a payment history associated with one or more payments made to the payee on behalf of the payor, a payment frequency pattern may be determined. Based at least in part on a portion of the payment history and the determined payment frequency pattern, a next expected payment date may be calculated. In accordance with the at least one notification control parameter, a payment due notification including an identity of the payee and the next expected payment date may be generated. The payment due notification may be transmitted to the payor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Checkfree Corporation
    Inventors: Mary Elizabeth Lawson, Cheryl L. Ward, Hans Daniel Dreyer
  • Patent number: 8756705
    Abstract: Systems and methods for personalized security management of online applications are provided. A determination may be made that a condition for constructing an increased authentication proposal for access to an online financial service is satisfied. The increased authentication proposal may be associated with (i) a user of the online financial service and (ii) a user request option associated with the online financial service. Based upon the determination that the condition is satisfied, the increased authentication proposal may be generated and transmitted for presentation to the user. An increased authentication proposal response may then be received, and the increased authentication proposal response may be processed in order to store, in association with the user and the user request option, (i) an indication of an increased authentication condition and (ii) an indication of an increased authentication mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Fiserv, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert T. Homer, Mary Elizabeth Lawson, Donald Kenneth Hobday, Jr., Hans Daniel Dreyer
  • Publication number: 20140114851
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention may provide systems and methods for processing a payment coupon image. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an image representing a payment coupon from a payer, determining an identity of a biller associated with the payment coupon based at least in part on information displayed by the image, and extracting data from the image based at least in part on payment coupon metadata associated with the biller indicating a layout of the payment coupon. The method may further include performing at least one of: (a) processing a payment associated with the payment coupon to the biller based at least in part on the data extracted from the image; (b) adding the biller to a list of billers for a payer associated with the payment coupon; or (c) activating the biller as an electronic biller for the payer associated with the payment coupon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: Fiserv, Inc.
    Inventors: Mary Elizabeth Lawson, Joseph Carl Dickerson, Barbara Wilson Whiteside, Donald Kenneth Hobday, Hans Daniel Dreyer
  • Patent number: 8635155
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention may provide systems and methods for processing a payment coupon image. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an image representing a payment coupon from a payer, determining an identity of a biller associated with the payment coupon based at least in part on information displayed by the image, and extracting data from the image based at least in part on payment coupon metadata associated with the biller indicating a layout of the payment coupon. The method may further include performing at least one of: (a) processing a payment associated with the payment coupon to the biller based at least in part on the data extracted from the image; (b) adding the biller to a list of billers for a payer associated with the payment coupon; or (c) activating the biller as an electronic biller for the payer associated with the payment coupon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Fiserv, Inc.
    Inventors: Mary Elizabeth Lawson, Joseph Carl Dickerson, Barbara Wilson Whiteside, Donald Kenneth Hobday, Hans Daniel Dreyer
  • Patent number: 8543501
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention may provide systems and methods for capturing and processing payment coupon information. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an image representing a payment coupon from a payer and determining an identity of a biller associated with the payment coupon from the image. It may then be determined that no payment coupon metadata for obtaining one or more fields from the payment coupon is stored in association with the biller. The method may then include requesting a respective set of one or more field indicators representing at least an approximate size or an approximate location for one or more fields within the image. Upon receipt, the field indicators for the fields within the image are stored as the payment coupon metadata in association with the biller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Fiserv, Inc.
    Inventors: Mary Elizabeth Lawson, Joseph Carl Dickerson, Barbara Wilson Whiteside, Donald Kenneth Hobday, Hans Daniel Dreyer
  • Patent number: 8290835
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for establishing payees based on cleared items posted to a financial account are provided. Information associated with a cleared item posted to a financial account of a consumer may be obtained. Based at least in part on the obtained information, a payee associated with the cleared item may be identified. A form may be generated for activating, at a service provider, at least one of online payment functionality for payments made to the payee by the service provider on behalf of the consumer or electronic bill presentment of billing information of the payee to the consumer through the service provider. The form may be transmitted to a network entity for presentation to the consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: FISERV, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert T. Homer, Mary Elizabeth Lawson, Donald Kenneth Hobday, Jr., Hans Daniel Dreyer
  • Publication number: 20110313918
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention may provide systems and methods for processing a payment coupon image. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an image representing a payment coupon from a payer, determining an identity of a biller associated with the payment coupon based at least in part on information displayed by the image, and extracting data from the image based at least in part on payment coupon metadata associated with the biller indicating a layout of the payment coupon. The method may further include performing at least one of: (a) processing a payment associated with the payment coupon to the biller based at least in part on the data extracted from the image; (b) adding the biller to a list of billers for a payer associated with the payment coupon; or (c) activating the biller as an electronic biller for the payer associated with the payment coupon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2010
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: FISERV, INC.
    Inventors: Mary Elizabeth Lawson, Joseph Carl Dickerson, Barbara Wilson Whiteside, Donald Kenneth Hobday, Hans Daniel Dreyer
  • Publication number: 20110313917
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention may provide systems and methods for capturing and processing payment coupon information. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an image representing a payment coupon from a payer and determining an identity of a biller associated with the payment coupon from the image. It may then be determined that no payment coupon metadata for obtaining one or more fields from the payment coupon is stored in association with the biller. The method may then include requesting a respective set of one or more field indicators representing at least an approximate size or an approximate location for one or more fields within the image. Upon receipt, the field indicators for the fields within the image are stored as the payment coupon metadata in association with the biller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2010
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: FISERV, INC.
    Inventors: Mary Elizabeth Lawson, Joseph Carl Dickerson, Barbara Wilson Whiteside, Donald Kenneth Hobday, Hans Daniel Dreyer
  • Patent number: 7996311
    Abstract: Systems and methods of remittance processing where a merchant database is provided that includes one or more alteration rules that are associated with a particular payee. A consumer account number associated with a payor is received and altered into a modified consumer account number, where the alteration is performed in accordance with one or more of the stored alteration rules. The modified consumer account number may then be transmitted to the particular payee to be utilized, for example, when processing a payment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Checkfree Corporation
    Inventors: David Lee Garrison, Patricia A. Kight, Brad Perkins, Cheryl Lynn Ward, Mary Elizabeth Lawson, Amy Lynn Kerin