Patents by Inventor Mitchell D. Thompson

Mitchell D. Thompson 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).

  • Electronic check presentment systems and methods employing volatile memory datastore access techniques
    Patent number: 6301379
    Abstract: A subsystem and method, employed within an electronic check presentment (“ECP”) system and executable on a computer system having volatile and nonvolatile memory and a processor coupled thereto. The subsystem and method establish and maintain a datastore for processing items within the ECP system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2001
    Assignee: Carreker-Antinori, Inc.
    Inventors: Mitchell D. Thompson, Jonathan C. Gilson, Stanley M. Josephson
  • System and method for commingling items destined for multiple payors in a single electronic pocket and financial infrastructure employing the same
    Patent number: 6019282
    Abstract: For use in a electronic presentment process wherein electronic items are transmitted from a presenting financial institution ("FI") through intermediaries to payor FIs, a system for, and method of, clearing electronic items drawn on the payor FIs and received by the presenting FI for payment and a financial infrastructure employing the system or the method. The method includes the steps of: (1) sorting the electronic items into pockets corresponding to the intermediaries, electronic items destined for multiple of the payor FIs through a particular intermediary being commingled in a single pocket and (2) electronically transmitting the pockets from the presenting FI to the particular intermediary, the particular intermediary capable of further sorting the electronic items thereby to allow multi-staged sorting of the electronic items as the electronic items proceed through the electronic presentment process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2000
    Assignee: Carreker-Antinori, Inc.
    Inventors: Mitchell D. Thompson, Stanley M. Josephson, Francis L. Paulson
  • Electronic check presentment system having a return item notification system incorporated therein
    Patent number: 5532464
    Abstract: An Improved Electronic Check Presentment System Having a Return Item Notification System Incorporated Therein provides banks with a fully automated capability to receive early notification of checks that it previously presented to a payor bank and that have subsequently been identified by the payor bank as return checks or unpaid items. Moreover, the Improved Electronic Check Presentment System allows those banks utilizing it to transmit return notifications to downstream correspondent banks and customers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1996
    Assignee: J. D. Carreker & Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: Stanley M. Josephson, Michael F. Kopesec, P. Darrell Royal, Thomas S. Stephens, Mitchell D. Thompson
  • Electronic check presentment system having a return item notification system incorporated therein
    Patent number: 5412190
    Abstract: An Improved Electronic Check Presentment System Having a Return Item Notification System Incorporated Therein provides banks with a fully automated capability to receive early notification of checks that it previously presented to a payor bank and that have subsequently been identified by the payor bank as return checks or unpaid items. Moreover, the Improved Electronic Check Presentment System allows those banks utilizing it to transmit return notifications to downstream correspondent banks and customers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1995
    Assignee: J. D. Carreker & Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: Stanley M. Josephson, Michael F. Kopesec, P. Darrell Royal, Thomas S. Stephens, Mitchell D. Thompson