Patents by Inventor Michael M. Pratt

Michael M. Pratt 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: 20090018940
    Abstract: A computer-implemented fraud detection system and method are disclosed. A method includes monitoring past customer account transactions conducted with a selected one or more transaction devices, and generating a predictive model that combines customer account transaction profiles with transaction device profiles related to the one or more transaction devices, and storing a representation of the predictive model in a storage. A system for detecting fraud in financial transaction includes a fraud detection computer that receives, through a communications network, customer account transaction data obtained by a monitoring device of a transaction device according to one or more transaction device variables of a transaction device profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Inventors: Liang Wang, Michael M. Pratt, Anuj Taneja, Jenny G. Zhang
  • Patent number: 6181274
    Abstract: A navigation receiver system provides real-time precise relative positioning in cooperation with an associated carrier phase receiver. The navigation receiver system and the associated carrier phase receiver both sample signals during a single epoch, and the associated carrier phase receiver processes the received signals to provide and transmit first carrier phase measurement data. The navigation receiver system comprises a data link receiver that receives the first carrier phase measurement data from the associated carrier phase receiver, and a carrier phase receiver that receives carrier phase signals during the sampling epoch, and processes the carrier phase signals to provide a second carrier phase measurement data. The navigation system receiver also includes a processing unit that receives the first carrier phase measurement data and the second carrier phase measurement data and computes carrier phase difference measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Michael M. Pratt, Brian P. Burke, Pratap N. Misra