Patents by Inventor Philippe Levy
Philippe Levy 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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Publication number: 20180075452Abstract: A payment authentication service authenticates the identity of a payer during online transactions. The authentication service of the present invention allows a card issuer to verify a cardholder's identity using a variety of authentication methods, such as the use of passwords. Also, the only system participant requiring a certificate is the issuing financial institution. One embodiment of the invention for authenticating the identity of a cardholder during an online transaction involves querying an access control server to determine if a cardholder is enrolled in the payment authentication service, requests a password from the cardholder, verifies the password, and notifies a merchant whether the cardholder's authenticity has been verified. In another aspect of the invention, a chip card and the authentication service independently generate cryptograms that must match in order for the service to verify that the correct chip card is being used by the cardholder.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2017Publication date: March 15, 2018Inventors: Kevin D. Weller, Stephen W. Ryan, Peter R. Hill, Thomas J. Manessis, Tony D. Lewis, Benedicto H. Dominguez, Peter Bray, James Donald Reno, Liane Redford, Philippe Levy, Trudy Hill
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Patent number: 9864993Abstract: A payment authentication service authenticates the identity of a payer during online transactions. The authentication service of the present invention allows a card issuer to verify a cardholder's identity using a variety of authentication methods, such as the use of passwords. Also, the only system participant requiring a certificate is the issuing financial institution. One embodiment of the invention for authenticating the identity of a cardholder during an online transaction involves querying an access control server to determine if a cardholder is enrolled in the payment authentication service, requests a password from the cardholder, verifies the password, and notifies a merchant whether the cardholder's authenticity has been verified. In another aspect of the invention, a chip card and the authentication service independently generate cryptograms that must match in order for the service to verify that the correct chip card is being used by the cardholder.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2009Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Visa International Service AssociationInventors: Kevin D. Weller, Stephen W. Ryan, Peter R. Hill, Thomas J. Manessis, Tony D. Lewis, Benedicto H. Dominguez, Peter Bray, James Donald Reno, Liane Redford, Philippe Levy, Trudy Hill
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Patent number: 9852437Abstract: Techniques for changing a participation status in a loyalty program for a portable device are provided. The techniques include receiving an indication to change the participation status in the loyalty program from a first status to a second status. A parameter is modified in the portable device where the modification of the parameter corresponds to a change in the participation status in the loyalty program from the first status to the second status.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2003Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: Visa U.S.A. Inc.Inventors: Paul Spaeth, Bryan Shimko, Philippe Levy, Liz Toibero, Benjamin Garton, Marc Black, Michael Salters, James Mazour
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Patent number: 8215563Abstract: A system for facilitating memory and application management on a smartcard the system includes a client having a number of applications and a smartcard having specification logic allowing file structures and security and access conditions to be defined using a set of common commands. Each application has a corresponding group of data on the smartcard. An applet instance is created for each application and corresponding group of application data. At the time of instantiation, the specification logic allows an application to specify the file structure and/or to specify security and access conditions for its group of data. An application can utilize passcode and credential management so that a single passcode is used to access the smartcard regardless of whether the application utilizes the common commands to specify a file structure.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2010Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignees: Visa International Service Association, Visa U.S.A., Inc.Inventors: Philippe Levy, Ayman Hammad, Virginia I. Simcox, Jerry Sloan, Mary Gorden
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Publication number: 20110145917Abstract: A system for facilitating memory and application management on a smartcard the system includes a client having a number of applications and a smartcard having specification logic allowing file structures and security and access conditions to be defined using a set of common commands. Each application has a corresponding group of data on the smartcard. An applet instance is created for each application and corresponding group of application data. At the time of instantiation, the specification logic allows an application to specify the file structure and/or to specify security and access conditions for its group of data. An application can utilize passcode and credential management so that a single passcode is used to access the smartcard regardless of whether the application utilizes the common commands to specify a file structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2010Publication date: June 16, 2011Inventors: Philippe Levy, Ayman Hammad, Virginia I. Simcox, Jerry Sloan, Mary Gorden
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Patent number: 7874492Abstract: A system for facilitating memory and application management on a smartcard the system includes a client having a number of applications and a smartcard having specification logic allowing file structures and security and access conditions to be defined using a set of common commands. Each application has a corresponding group of data on the smartcard. An applet instance is created for each application and corresponding group of application data. At the time of instantiation, the specification logic allows an application to specify the file structure and/or to specify security and access conditions for its group of data. An application can utilize passcode and credential management so that a single passcode is used to access the smartcard regardless of whether the application utilizes the common commands to specify a file structure.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2007Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignees: Visa U.S.A. Inc., Visa International Service AssociationInventors: Philippe Levy, Ayman Hammad, Virginia Simcox, Jerry Sloan, Mary Gorden
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Publication number: 20070250925Abstract: A system for facilitating memory and application management on a smartcard the system includes a client having a number of applications and a smartcard having specification logic allowing file structures and security and access conditions to be defined using a set of common commands. Each application has a corresponding group of data on the smartcard. An applet instance is created for each application and corresponding group of application data. At the time of instantiation, the specification logic allows an application to specify the file structure and/or to specify security and access conditions for its group of data. An application can utilize passcode and credential management so that a single passcode is used to access the smartcard regardless of whether the application utilizes the common commands to specify a file structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2007Publication date: October 25, 2007Inventors: Philippe Levy, Ayman Hammad, Virginia Simcox, Jerry Sloan, Mary Gorden
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Patent number: 7243853Abstract: A system including a secured token having a plurality of applets. Each applet supports a plurality of commands and is capable of being instantiated to create one or more applet instances. Each applet instance is capable of supporting the same plurality of commands that is supported by the applet that creates that applet instance. The applet instances can provide different file structures or different access conditions for data on the secured token.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2002Date of Patent: July 17, 2007Assignee: Visa U.S.A. Inc.Inventors: Philippe Levy, Ayman Hammad, Virginia I. Simcox, Jerry Sloan, Mary Gorden
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Publication number: 20050000002Abstract: A garment, such as a skirt, culottes, dress, pair of trousers, shorts, bermuda shorts or similar article, featuring a means for temporarily attaching a clothing accessory such as a glove, the means featuring press studs of which the male or female elements are attached permanently to the garment in a place that is readily accessible to the hand of the person wearing the garment, and a piece of self-adhering fabric associated permanently or temporarily with the garment in the said area, and the said means are arranged such that the said press stud elements allow the piece of self-adhering fabric to be either exposed in order to attach the clothing accessory or covered so that the piece of self-adhering fabric is concealed from view.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2003Publication date: January 6, 2005Inventors: Philippe Levy, Jean-Francois Levy
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Publication number: 20040054591Abstract: Techniques for changing a participation status in a loyalty program for a portable device are provided. The techniques include receiving an indication to change the participation status in the loyalty program from a first status to a second status. A parameter is modified in the portable device where the modification of the parameter corresponds to a change in the participation status in the loyalty program from the first status to the second status.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2003Publication date: March 18, 2004Applicant: Visa U.S.A., Inc.Inventors: Paul Spaeth, Bryan Shimko, Philippe Levy, Liz Toibero, Benjamin Garton, Marc Black, Michael Salters, James Mazour
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Patent number: 5306143Abstract: A dental hygiene appliance for brushing teeth composed of a handle; a brushing head connected to the handle and a set of tooth brushing bristles projecting in a given direction from the head; a source of monochromatic radiation having a given wavelength; and elements for directing the radiation from the head in a direction having at least a component in the given direction; wherein the elements for directing radiation are structurally separate from the bristles.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 1992Date of Patent: April 26, 1994Assignee: Laser Medical Technology, Inc.Inventor: Philippe Levy
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Patent number: 5290274Abstract: A method and apparatus for performing a medical or dental treatment by: providing radiation at two different wavelengths and at respective power levels such that the radiation at each wavelength is individually capable of cutting a given organic tissue; simultaneously applying the laser radiation at the two different wavelengths to a single body region which is composed of the given tissue; and directing a cooling fluid at the single body fluid region simultaneously with the step of applying radiation.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 1992Date of Patent: March 1, 1994Assignee: Laser Medical Technology, Inc.Inventors: Guy Levy, Philippe Levy, James H. Tillotson
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Patent number: 5213499Abstract: An endodontic file comprising a handle and an elongate cutting portion, a distal end remote from the handle and formed to have a first file portion which is adjacent the distal end and has the physical form of a k file, and a second file portion, which is located between the first portion and the handle and has the physical form of a Hedstrom file.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 1992Date of Patent: May 25, 1993Assignee: Laser Endo TechnicInventor: Philippe Levy
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Patent number: 4968959Abstract: An analog type of microwave frequency divider for dividing frequency by two. It comprises a common emitter transistor (8) and a feedback loop comprising a filter (9, 11) and a phase-adjusting inductor (12). The filter (9, 11) is tuned to half the input frequency (fe/2) and the transistor (8) operates in its non-linear region. The two inductors (11, 12) are made of microstrip. The divider also includes an output matching filter comprising a capacitance (14) and two inductors (15, 16) which are likewise both made of microstrip.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 1989Date of Patent: November 6, 1990Assignee: Alcatel N.V.Inventor: Philippe Levy