Patents by Inventor Rajiv Venkataramana Appana

Rajiv Venkataramana Appana 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: 20240104575
    Abstract: Systems and methods discussed herein relate to a system for detecting and preventing fraudulent transactions through collecting requests for website access, stored-card trades and sales, and transactions using physical or electronically issued credit, debit, stored-value, and other cards. The fraud detection system not only flags individual transactions, but is also configured to dynamically track and update banned/watch lists associated with request artifacts and cards in order to catch and prevent individual actors as well as BOTs, at least by adjusting the thresholds used to evaluate risk scores and what is placed on the banned/watch lists based upon requests received as well as information from financial institutions, merchants, government agencies, and watchdog groups. The system is also configured to provide information to those groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Blackhawk Network, Inc.
    Inventors: Henry Ivey, Rajiv Venkataramana Appana, Patrick Ramsey, Theodore Yeh
  • Patent number: 11887125
    Abstract: Systems and methods discussed herein relate to a system for detecting and preventing fraudulent transactions through collecting requests for website access, stored-card trades and sales, and transactions using physical or electronically issued credit, debit, stored-value, and other cards. The fraud detection system not only flags individual transactions, but is also configured to dynamically track and update banned/watch lists associated with request artifacts and cards in order to catch and prevent individual actors as well as BOTs, at least by adjusting the thresholds used to evaluate risk scores and what is placed on the banned/watch lists based upon requests received as well as information from financial institutions, merchants, government agencies, and watchdog groups. The system is also configured to provide information to those groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Blackhawk Network, Inc.
    Inventors: Henry Ivey, Rajiv Venkataramana Appana, Patrick Ramsey, Theodore Yeh
  • Publication number: 20220101330
    Abstract: Systems and methods discussed herein relate to a system for detecting and preventing fraudulent transactions through collecting requests for website access, stored-card trades and sales, and transactions using physical or electronically issued credit, debit, stored-value, and other cards. The fraud detection system not only flags individual transactions, but is also configured to dynamically track and update banned/watch lists associated with request artifacts and cards in order to catch and prevent individual actors as well as BOTs, at least by adjusting the thresholds used to evaluate risk scores and what is placed on the banned/watch lists based upon requests received as well as information from financial institutions, merchants, government agencies, and watchdog groups. The system is also configured to provide information to those groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: Blackhawk Network, Inc.
    Inventors: Henry Ivey, Rajiv Venkataramana Appana, Patrick Ramsey, Theodore Yeh
  • Patent number: 11232452
    Abstract: Systems and methods discussed herein relate to a system for detecting and preventing fraudulent transactions through collecting requests for website access, stored-card trades and sales, and transactions using physical or electronically issued credit, debit, stored-value, and other cards. The fraud detection system not only flags individual transactions, but is also configured to dynamically track and update banned/watch lists associated with request artifacts and cards in order to catch and prevent individual actors as well as BOTs, at least by adjusting the thresholds used to evaluate risk scores and what is placed on the banned/watch lists based upon requests received as well as information from financial institutions, merchants, government agencies, and watchdog groups. The system is also configured to provide information to those groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Blackhawk Network, Inc.
    Inventors: Henry Ivey, Rajiv Venkataramana Appana, Patrick Ramsey, Theodore Yeh
  • Publication number: 20190333087
    Abstract: A method and system for tracking and rewarding distributors and/or distribution partners is disclosed. The method includes receiving a gift card redemption request for funding a subscription account associated with a customer. The gift card redemption request comprises a gift card identifier and a gift amount associated with a gift card for availing a subscription service using the subscription account. The method also includes determining if the subscription account created by the customer is a new subscription account. Further, the method includes tracking the subscription account by assigning a customer identifier for the subscription account, acquiring a subscription service amount for the subscription service availed by the customer and identifying a distributor associated with sale of the gift card to the customer. Furthermore, the method includes facilitating calculation of incentive for the distributor based at least on the subscription service amount and the gift amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2018
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventor: Rajiv Venkataramana APPANA
  • Patent number: 10164962
    Abstract: A trusted information communication device comprising a receiver configured to receive a client certificate; a processor coupled to the receiver and configured to: authenticate the client certificate, extract, in response to the authentication, attributes from the client certificate, and create, in response to the extraction, a message comprising reformatted attributes based on the attributes, wherein the reformatted attributes can be trusted; and a transmitter coupled to the processor and configured to transmit the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: BLACKHAWK NETWORK, INC.
    Inventors: Derk Norton, Tushar Vaish, Jeff Webb, Rajiv Venkataramana Appana
  • Publication number: 20180189273
    Abstract: Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for maintaining context in a transaction conversation. A notification of a customer interaction from a customer is received within a retailer network. Based on at least one messaging channel and at least one interaction type in the notification, the system determines that an active conversation with the customer is open. A natural language processing (NLP) model is then selected based on one or more conversation markers in the active conversation. At least one customer intent is determined with respect to one or more entities, and a response to the customer interaction is generated based on the at least one customer intent and the one or more entities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Applicant: OneMarket Network LLC
    Inventors: Tomas Ariel Campos, Rajiv Venkataramana Appana, Tushar Vaish, Michael Scott Blandina
  • Publication number: 20180189859
    Abstract: Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for providing individualized product recommendations within a retailer network. A database of federated customer profiles is accessed, with the federating customer profiles including purchase and transaction history for the customer across multiple retailers. The profile is analyzed based on the transaction history, product data for previous transactions, and one or more customer insights, and one or more individualized product recommendations are generated based on the analysis of the federated customer profile. An individualized transaction message is then generated, the message including the one or more individualized product recommendations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Applicant: OneMarket Network LLC
    Inventors: Tomas Ariel Campos, Rajiv Venkataramana Appana, Tushar Vaish, Michael Scott Blandina
  • Publication number: 20180192364
    Abstract: Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for providing individualized transaction messages within a retailer network. Identity information for a customer during a retailer transaction is received, then a database of customer profiles is accessed to match a customer profile with the identity information. One or more preferred messaging channels for the customer are determined based on the customer profile information, and then one or more individualized transaction messages are sent to the customer via the preferred messaging channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Applicant: OneMarket Network LLC
    Inventors: Tomas Ariel Campos, Rajiv Venkataramana Appana, Tushar Vaish, Michael Scott Blandina
  • Publication number: 20180189794
    Abstract: Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for providing customization of individualized transaction messages within a retailer network. Identity information for a customer during a retailer transaction is received, then a database of federated customer profiles is accessed to match and link a federated customer profile with the identity information. One or more messaging parameters are updated or added based on customer behavioral data in the federated customer profile, then a customized messaging template for the customer is provided based on the messaging parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Applicant: OneMarket Network LLC
    Inventors: Tomas Ariel Campos, Rajiv Venkataramana Appana, Tushar Vaish, Michael Scott Blandina
  • Publication number: 20180189793
    Abstract: Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for providing an individualized transaction conversation within a retailer network. A notification of a triggering event related to a customer and one or more retailers within the retailer network is received, then a database of customer profiles is accessed to match a customer profile with customer identity information. A message type is determined based on the triggering event, and a preferred messaging channel for the customer is determined based on the customer profile information. A message template is selected based on the message type and messaging channel determined, and an individualized transaction conversation is initiated via the preferred messaging channel. A customer interaction is received, and a response to the interaction is dynamically generated based on the message template and customer profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Applicant: OneMarket Network LLC
    Inventors: Tomas Ariel Campos, Rajiv Venkataramana Appana, Tushar Vaish, Michael Scott Blandina
  • Publication number: 20180191644
    Abstract: Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for providing interactive transaction returns within a retailer network. Notification of a customer interaction is received, including a messaging channel and interaction type. A database of customer profiles is accessed, and the identity information is matched with multiple customer profiles from the database. A customer interaction profile is determined based on the interaction type and previous customer interaction data from the customer profile, and the customer interaction profile is provided to one or more retailers in the retailer network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Applicant: OneMarket Network LLC
    Inventors: Tomas Ariel Campos, Rajiv Venkataramana Appana, Tushar Vaish, Michael Scott Blandina
  • Publication number: 20160005029
    Abstract: Systems and methods discussed herein relate to a system for detecting and preventing fraudulent transactions through collecting requests for website access, stored-card trades and sales, and transactions using physical or electronically issued credit, debit, stored-value, and other cards. The fraud detection system not only flags individual transactions, but is also configured to dynamically track and update banned/watch lists associated with request artifacts and cards in order to catch and prevent individual actors as well as BOTs, at least by adjusting the thresholds used to evaluate risk scores and what is placed on the banned/watch lists based upon requests received as well as information from financial institutions, merchants, government agencies, and watchdog groups. The system is also configured to provide information to those groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2015
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Inventors: Henry Ivey, Rajiv Venkataramana Appana, Patrick Ramsey, Theodore Yeh
  • Publication number: 20140282997
    Abstract: A device comprises: a receiver configured to receive a client certificate; a processor coupled to the receiver and configured to: authenticate the client certificate, extract, in response to the authentication, attributes from the client certificate, and create, in response to the extraction, a message comprising reformatted attributes based on the attributes, wherein the reformatted attributes can be trusted; and a transmitter coupled to the processor and configured to transmit the message. A device comprises: a processor configured to: process a client certificate comprising a certificate identifier (ID) attribute, a tenant ID attribute, and a role ID attribute, and package the client certificate in a request for a shared service; and a transmitter coupled to the processor and configured to transmit the request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Blackhawk Network, Inc.
    Inventors: Derk Norton, Tushar Vaish, Jeff Webb, Rajiv Venkataramana Appana