Patents by Inventor Piero Macari

Piero Macari 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: 10867317
    Abstract: The disclosure facilitates loyalty earnings by generating purchase recommendations. Loyalty data is collected from a loyalty program data store. The loyalty data is associated with a loyalty profile of a user. Account data is collected from an account data store. The account data is associated with an account of the user that is linked to the loyalty profile of the user. Transaction data is collected from a transaction data store. The transaction data is associated with the account of the user. User recommendations are generated for prioritizing loyalty earnings on the loyalty profile based on the loyalty data, account data, and transaction data. After the recommendations are generated, the recommendations are caused to be displayed on a user interface associated with a computing device of the user. Combining the three types of collected data to generate the recommendations results in accurate recommendations that are tailored to the user to increase loyalty earnings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Anouska Ladds, Heather Alice Cobb, Simon Forbes, Piero Macari
  • Publication number: 20190197575
    Abstract: The disclosure facilitates loyalty earnings by generating purchase recommendations. Loyalty data is collected from a loyalty program data store. The loyalty data is associated with a loyalty profile of a user. Account data is collected from an account data store. The account data is associated with an account of the user that is linked to the loyalty profile of the user. Transaction data is collected from a transaction data store. The transaction data is associated with the account of the user. User recommendations are generated for prioritizing loyalty earnings on the loyalty profile based on the loyalty data, account data, and transaction data. After the recommendations are generated, the recommendations are caused to be displayed on a user interface associated with a computing device of the user. Combining the three types of collected data to generate the recommendations results in accurate recommendations that are tailored to the user to increase loyalty earnings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Anouska Ladds, Heather Alice Cobb, Simon Forbes, Piero Macari
  • Publication number: 20190095913
    Abstract: A method of authorizing payment for an online transaction according to a credit plan using a payment scheme infrastructure. A real and a virtual account number for a credit plan for a transaction are received from a credit issuer. The transaction is received for authorization from a merchant gateway—the transaction is completed for the virtual card number. The payment scheme infrastructure uses the virtual card number to obtain or confirm authorization for the credit plan, and recovers the real account number from the virtual card number to obtain authorization of the transaction from an issuer for the real account number. In this way the transaction is authorized if the credit plan is authorized and the transaction is authorized by the issuer for the real account number using suitable methods and apparatus at the payment scheme infrastructure, at the credit issuer computing system, and at the merchant computing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Marc Van Puyveld, Iain Kedzlie, Sagitha George, Piero Macari, David Plater Lloyd, Bambina Blagden, Chaten Oberoi-Morris, Anushree Ashutosh Prabhune, Paul Connolly