Patents by Inventor Nikolai Stroke
Nikolai Stroke 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).
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Patent number: 11972404Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes authenticating, by one or more first processors of a provider computing system, a user of a vehicle with a financial account of the user where the vehicle is associated with the financial account, receiving vehicle data relating to the vehicle, transmitting application data to a vehicle computing system of the vehicle via a first network and based on the vehicle data where the vehicle computing system includes one or more second processors communicatively coupled to the provider computing system via the first network, transmitting, by the one or more second processors via a second network, the application data to the user device, and receiving, by the one or more first processors, an input provided from the user device based on the application data.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Inventors: Ashish B Kurani, Nikolai Stroke
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Publication number: 20240135446Abstract: A method of completing a purchase transaction that includes a loan includes receiving, by a transaction processing logic, a loan application from a network. The method also includes generating, by the transaction processing logic, a plurality of loan terms for the loan application. The method also includes receiving, by the transaction processing logic, a transaction package from the network, where the transaction package includes at least one of the plurality of loan terms and a purchase price. The method also includes tendering, by the transaction processing logic, the purchase price according to the transaction package. The method also includes setting up, by the transaction processing logic, a loan in an account database according to the transaction package.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 1, 2024Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Ashish B. Kurani, Nikolai Stroke
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Publication number: 20240119518Abstract: The described financial institution computing system provides services to customers through an application programming interface (“API”). The services include user identification services to customers. The user identification services allow the customers to verify the identity of users as non-fraudulent users. Further the user identification services allow the financial institution to provide known user information to the customers for purposes of prepopulating registration forms, completing transactions, and the like. Further services, such as user account validation services, payment services, and the like are also possible through the financial institution APIs. In some situations, users are registered with the financial institution. For example, a user may also be an account holder with the financial institution. In other situations, the users are not registered with the financial institution.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Bipin M. Sahni, Nikolai Stroke
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Patent number: 11935045Abstract: A method includes: providing a mobile wallet on a mobile device of a user; generating a customer token regarding the user; generating a device token regarding the mobile device; encrypting and sending the customer token and the device token; receiving a user credential associated with a second institution; accessing information regarding an account of the user at the second institution; automatically provisioning the account to the mobile wallet; providing tokenized account information associated with the provisioned account to the mobile wallet; receiving an input of a login credential associated with the first institution; receiving an indication of an initiation of a mobile wallet transaction; validating and identifying the user based on the received login credential and the customer token; validating the mobile wallet of the mobile device based on the device token; and transferring funds from the provisioned account to a recipient as part of the mobile wallet transaction.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Ashish Bhoopen Kurani, Nikolai Stroke, Bipin Sahni, Stephen M. Ellis
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Publication number: 20240086876Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media of private network issuance of digital currency. One method includes receiving an issuance request associated with a first denomination of digital currency. The method further includes issuing a first digital currency token, wherein issuing is an off-chain exchange transferring the first denomination outside a digital currency ledger.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Nikolai Stroke, Duc M. Trinh
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Patent number: 11928668Abstract: A method includes receiving a fund access request from a user device associated with a user; generating a tokenized card number based on an actual card account number of the user that substitutes the actual card account number in a payment transaction; providing a code to the user device including the tokenized card number and a numeric or alphanumeric string of values; determining that the numeric or alphanumeric string of values in the code transmitted to the user device matches a numeric or alphanumeric string of values in a field of a code received from a separate computer system; determining that a location of the user device matches a merchant location; authenticating the payment transaction based on the numeric or alphanumeric match and the location match; and, transmitting the actual card account number to the separate computer system as part of the payment transaction.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Ashish Bhoopen Kurani, Nikolai Stroke, Bipin Sahni, Stephen M. Ellis, Steve Puffer
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Patent number: 11922406Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for locking-in currency exchanges. One method includes providing, by a graphical user interface (GUI) of a wallet application, a customer request, wherein the customer request is a request for a currency transfer between a customer account of the customer to a recipient account of a recipient, wherein the customer account is associated with a first type of currency and the recipient account is associated with a second type of currency, presenting, by the GUI of the wallet application, a locked-in exchange rate for a time limit and data corresponding to the exchange rate and the time limit, exchanging, by the wallet application, an amount of the first type of currency for an amount of the second type of currency based on the exchange rate, and receiving, by the GUI of the wallet application, an indication of a transferred amount for a currency transfer.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2023Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Sayali Bhos, Harmit Singh Dhanoa, Laura Marie Fontana, Marc Le Boeuf, Matthew Shepherd, Nikolai Stroke, Duc M. Trinh, Daniel G. Vogt
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Publication number: 20240062234Abstract: A computer-implemented method performed by one or more processors of a computer system is provided. The computer-implemented method includes: determining, by one or more processors of a computer system, an offer to provide to a mobile device of a user; generating, by augmented reality logic, an overlay display configured to overlay an image displayed on the mobile device, the overlay display providing additional information related to the offer to the user; generating, by the one or more processors, an offer code for the mobile device of the user for providing to a third party; and sending, by the one or more processors, the offer code to the mobile device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2023Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Stephen M. Ellis, Michael J. Kennedy, Ashish Bhoopen Kurani, Melissa Lowry, Uma Meyyappan, Bipin Sahni, Nikolai Stroke
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Publication number: 20240062173Abstract: A method for providing an application programming interface (API) service that enables a third-party to provide screens that allow account holders to provide credentials to an institution while bypassing the third-party, comprising transmitting an API to a third-party device for integration into a website served by the third-party, the API configured to generate a portal that accepts the credentials without revealing the credentials to the third-party; receiving, via the API integrated into the third-party website, a request for verification of a user; instructing the API integrated into the third-party website to display a screen of the institution within a window through which transmissions can be received directly from the user without the third-party receiving the transmissions; receiving, directly from the user and through the window, user credentials input into the screen without revealing the input user credentials to the third-party; and verifying the user by confirming the user credentials.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2023Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Bipin M. Sahni, Nikolai Stroke
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Publication number: 20240054480Abstract: A computer-implemented method performed by a computer system includes receiving a payment token generated for a mobile wallet transaction between a payor and a merchant from a mobile device of the payor where the payment token is displayed on a POS (Point of Sale) device of the merchant and scanned by the mobile device as part of the mobile wallet transaction, determining, based on a payment token, an issuing financial institution and an account number corresponding to a payor account of the payor at the issuing financial institution, and initiating a transfer of funds from the payor account at the issuing financial institution to a merchant account held by the merchant at a recipient financial institution.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2023Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, NAInventors: Stephen M. Ellis, Michael J. Kennedy, Ashish Bhoopen Kurani, Melissa Lowry, Uma Meyyappan, Bipin Sahni, Nikolai Stroke
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Publication number: 20240054478Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes: receiving a request to perform a mobile wallet transaction between a user and a merchant via a mobile wallet application operating on a mobile device of the user; determining a location of the mobile device; receiving transaction information from a merchant computer system associated with the merchant; determining a location of a merchant point-of-sale device in communication with the mobile device; comparing the location of the mobile device and the location of the merchant point-of-sale device to determine whether the location of the mobile device is within a predefined distance of the location of the merchant point-of-sale device; generating a transaction code; transmitting the transaction code to the mobile device; transferring funds from an account of the user to a merchant account; and, transmitting an indication that the mobile wallet transaction has been completed to the mobile device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2023Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Stephen M. Ellis, Michael J. Kennedy, Ashish Bhoopen Kurani, Melissa Lowry, Uma Meyyappan, Bipin M. Sahni, Nikolai Stroke
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Patent number: 11900441Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media of protecting customer information. One method includes detecting a user device associated with a user has navigated to a page of an online store, inserting code comprising a first interactive element associated with a purchase option into the page prior to presenting the page on the user device, and receiving a pending purchase order. The method further includes transmitting a notification to a merchant system associated with the online store to reserve a good or service for a period of time, capturing, via an input circuit of the user device, user input of the user, and assigning a point value to the user input. The method further includes generating a recommendation to cancel, proceed, or modify the pending purchase order based on an evaluation of the point value, and providing, to the user device, the recommendation during the pendency of the period of time.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Albert Hwu, Chris Kalaboukis, Ashish B. Kurani, Kristine Ing Kushner, Nikolai Stroke, Raissa Williams, Young M. Yang
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Publication number: 20240048552Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes generating a token associated with a user-level profile, receiving via a computing system a transaction message associated with a transaction where the transaction message includes a first data portion and a second data portion and where the token is part of at least one of the first data portion or the second data portion, obtaining via a network the token from the received transaction message, validating the token responsive to receiving a validation confirmation from a service provider, and transmitting an identity verification to the computing system responsive to validating the token.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Ashish B. Kurani, Kristine Ing Kushner, Brian M. Pearce, Steven E. Puffer, Nikolai Stroke, Paul Vittimberga, Young M. Yang
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Publication number: 20240037538Abstract: A mobile device communicatively coupled to a computer system is provided. The mobile device includes an application configured to facilitate communication with the computer system, and further configured to: generate a displayable and scannable code comprising a geographical location of a transaction and an approximate time of the transaction; provide the displayable and scannable code to a computing system; and receive, after providing the displayable and scannable code to the computing system, an indication that the transaction is authenticated.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Stephen M. Ellis, Michael J. Kennedy, Ashish Bhoopen Kurani, Melissa Lowry, Uma Meyyappan, Bipin Sahni, Nikolai Stroke
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Patent number: 11868977Abstract: The described financial institution computing system provides services to customers through an application programming interface (“API”). The services include user identification services to customers and payment services that allow users to pay the customers via the financial institution. The user identification services allow the customers to verify the identity of users as non-fraudulent users. Further the user identification services allow the financial institution to provide known user information to the customers for purposes of prepopulating registration forms, completing transactions, and the like. Further services, such as user account validation services, payment services, and the like are also possible through the financial institution APIs. In some situations, users are registered with the financial institution. For example, a user may also be an account holder with the financial institution. In other situations, the users are not registered with the financial institution.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Bipin M. Sahni, Nikolai Stroke
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Patent number: 11861700Abstract: A method of completing a purchase transaction that includes a loan includes receiving, by a transaction processing logic, a loan application from a network. The method also includes generating, by the transaction processing logic, a plurality of loan terms for the loan application. The method also includes receiving, by the transaction processing logic, a transaction package from the network, where the transaction package includes at least one of the plurality of loan terms and a purchase price. The method also includes tendering, by the transaction processing logic, the purchase price according to the transaction package. The method also includes setting up, by the transaction processing logic, a loan in an account database according to the transaction package.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Ashish B. Kurani, Nikolai Stroke
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Patent number: 11853919Abstract: A mobile wallet system to users is described. The mobile wallet system allows users to provide payments to merchants via the mobile wallet system. Users' mobile wallets are linked to payment forms associated with the users (e.g., bank accounts, credit cards, gift cards, etc.). Additionally, the mobile wallet system allows a first user to request funding from or provide funding to a second user for certain transactions. To pay for a good or service provided by a merchant, a user selects a form of payment, which may be another user, and provides a code to the merchant, which is used by a merchant computing system to initiate payment from the user to the merchant via the financial institution computing system.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2015Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Balinder Mangat, David Hatch, Uma Meyyappan, Bipin Sahni, Nikolai Stroke
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Patent number: 11847690Abstract: The described financial institution computing system provides services to customers through an application programming interface (“API”). The services include user identification services to customers. The user identification services allow the customers to verify the identity of users as non-fraudulent users. Further the user identification services allow the financial institution to provide known user information to the customers for purposes of prepopulating registration forms, completing transactions, and the like. Further services, such as user account validation services, payment services, and the like are also possible through the financial institution APIs. In some situations, users are registered with the financial institution. For example, a user may also be an account holder with the financial institution. In other situations, the users are not registered with the financial institution.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Bipin M. Sahni, Nikolai Stroke
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Patent number: 11836753Abstract: A computer-implemented method performed by one or more processors of a mobile wallet computer system is provided. The method includes: receiving, by network interface logic of the mobile wallet computer system, at least one offer from at least one merchant; determining, by one or more processors of the mobile wallet computer system, an offer to provide to a mobile device of a user; causing, by the one or more processors, an image to be displayed on the mobile device taken from a camera of the mobile device; generating, by augmented reality logic, an overlay display configured to overlay the image, the overlay display providing additional information related to the offer to the user; generating, by the one or more processors, an offer code for the mobile device of the user for providing to a merchant; and sending, by the one or more processors, the offer code to the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Stephen M. Ellis, Michael J. Kennedy, Ashish Bhoopen Kurani, Melissa Lowry, Uma Meyyappan, Bipin Sahni, Nikolai Stroke
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Patent number: 11836690Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media of private network issuance of digital currency. One method includes establishing, via a first private network, a first private network connection between a digital wallet application of a user device and the processing circuit. The method further includes receiving an issuance request associated with a first denomination of digital currency. The method further includes issuing a first digital currency token, wherein issuing is an off-chain exchange transferring the first denomination outside a digital currency ledger.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Nikolai Stroke, Duc M. Trinh