Patents by Inventor Rick Unnerstall
Rick Unnerstall 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: 10796332Abstract: A digital modifier processing system includes a memory and a processor that receives a transaction message for a pending digital wallet payment transaction that includes a digital wallet identifier and a merchant identifier, identifies the digital wallet of the consumer based on the digital wallet identifier, determines, based on the merchant identifier, that the digital wallet of the consumer contains a digital modifier associated with the merchant that was donated by the merchant to a fundraiser as part of a fundraising campaign, the digital modifier identifies (a) one or more of a product and a service and (b) a discount amount for the one or more of the product and the service, verifies one or more of the authenticity and validity of the digital modifier, calculates a modified transaction price based on the discount amount, and transmits the modified transaction price for use in completing the pending payment transaction.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATEDInventor: Rick Unnerstall
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Patent number: 10798582Abstract: Users may enroll one or more devices based on device information and a resource information associated with a resource. Such information and identifiers may be tokenized according to a hash algorithm to generate an enrolled user token. This enrolled user token may be utilized to verify communications and status changes of the user device. In response to a change of status of the user, similar information as that used to generate the enrolled user token, or at least a portion thereof, may be gathered from the user device and subjected to the same hash algorithm to generate a current user token. The current user token and the enrolled user token may be compared to determine if the user device is a spoofed device.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2020Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATEDInventors: Rick Unnerstall, Corey M. Hively
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Patent number: 10769575Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for distributing parcels to recipients based on location data associated with the recipients. One exemplary method includes generating and storing a shipping file for the recipient, where the shipping file includes an identifier for a portable communication device associated with the recipient and a defined geographic region for the recipient, and retrieving location data for a location of the portable communication device based on the identifier associated with the portable communication device. The method also includes determining whether the location of the portable communication device is within the defined geographic region. The method then further includes directing an entity associated with the parcel to ship the parcel to the recipient when the location is determined to be within the defined geographic region, and directing the entity to hold shipment of the parcel when the location is determined to be outside the defined geographic region.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2017Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATEDInventors: Rick Unnerstall, Bernard Wong, Corey M. Hively
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Publication number: 20200258072Abstract: A data controller computing device is configured to receive, from a voice-controlled (VC) computing device, a shared payment initialization request identifying a primary user payment account associated with the VC computing device. The DC computing device creates a shared payment account linked in a database to the primary user payment account. The DC computing device also receives secondary user information, and links in the database at least one secondary user payment account to the shared payment account. Additionally, the DC computing device transmits a shared payment account identifier to the VC computing device. The DC computing device receives, via a payment network, a transaction authorization request including the shared payment account identifier, a merchant identifier, and a transaction amount. The DC computing device applies respective portions of the transaction amount against each of the primary user account and the at least one secondary user payment account.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2019Publication date: August 13, 2020Inventors: Rick Unnerstall, Zhenni Hu, Brian Williams, Christopher Eric Mullen
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Patent number: 10741026Abstract: Systems and methods herein relate to augmented reality (AR) experiences for users. One exemplary method includes determining whether a computing device, associated with a user, is within a wagering area for an event and, when the computing device is within the wagering area, accessing an event record from a wagering hub for the event. The event record includes an offer for a wager from an originating user within the wagering area. The method also includes providing an AR experience to the user including a symbol for the offer for the wager included in the event record, where the symbol includes at least one detail of the wager, and transmitting an acceptance of the offer for the wager to the wagering hub based on an input, by the user, directed to the offer in the AR experience.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2018Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATEDInventor: Rick Unnerstall
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Publication number: 20200162923Abstract: Users may enroll one or more devices based on device information and a resource information associated with a resource. Such information and identifiers may be tokenized according to a hash algorithm to generate an enrolled user token. This enrolled user token may be utilized to verify communications and status changes of the user device. In response to a change of status of the user, similar information as that used to generate the enrolled user token, or at least a portion thereof, may be gathered from the user device and subjected to the same hash algorithm to generate a current user token. The current user token and the enrolled user token may be compared to determine if the user device is a spoofed device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2020Publication date: May 21, 2020Inventors: Rick Unnerstall, Corey M. Hively
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Patent number: 10636009Abstract: A shipping remittance processor may receive periodic checkpoint data packets during shipping of an object, via a handler, along a shipping route. The shipping remittance processor may then analyze tracking information located in the checkpoint data packet to determine if the tracking information is authentic, and if the object has reached a checkpoint along the shipping route. If the object has reached the checkpoint, the shipping remittance processor may output a remittance indication indicating to output a portion of the total delivery remittance to the handler's remittance account.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2019Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATEDInventor: Rick Unnerstall
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Publication number: 20200074808Abstract: Systems and methods herein relate to augmented reality (AR) experiences for users. One exemplary method includes determining whether a computing device, associated with a user, is within a wagering area for an event and, when the computing device is within the wagering area, accessing an event record from a wagering hub for the event. The event record includes an offer for a wager from an originating user within the wagering area. The method also includes providing an AR experience to the user including a symbol for the offer for the wager included in the event record, where the symbol includes at least one detail of the wager, and transmitting an acceptance of the offer for the wager to the wagering hub based on an input, by the user, directed to the offer in the AR experience.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2018Publication date: March 5, 2020Inventor: Rick Unnerstall
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Publication number: 20200074495Abstract: A digital modifier processing system includes a memory and a processor that receives a transaction message for a pending digital wallet payment transaction that includes a digital wallet identifier and a merchant identifier, identifies the digital wallet of the consumer based on the digital wallet identifier, determines, based on the merchant identifier, that the digital wallet of the consumer contains a digital modifier associated with the merchant that was donated by the merchant to a fundraiser as part of a fundraising campaign, the digital modifier identifies (a) one or more of a product and a service and (b) a discount amount for the one or more of the product and the service, verifies one or more of the authenticity and validity of the digital modifier, calculates a modified transaction price based on the discount amount, and transmits the modified transaction price for use in completing the pending payment transaction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2018Publication date: March 5, 2020Inventor: Rick Unnerstall
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Publication number: 20200066040Abstract: An augmented reality (AR) system for generating AR-based profiles using an AR computing device and an AR display device is provided. The AR system is configured to detect a consumer computing device located at a predefined distance from the AR display device, and transmit an electronic request message to an electronic computer application stored on the consumer computing device. The AR system is also configured to receive an electronic response message from the consumer computing device, wherein the electronic response message includes AR consumer data, and retrieve, from a database, an AR-based profile associated with the consumer based on the AR consumer identifier. The AR system is further configured to transmit the AR-based profile in the form of AR data to the AR display device, and display the AR data on a display screen of the AR display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2018Publication date: February 27, 2020Inventors: Rick Unnerstall, Ping X Chen, Brian Williams, Emily Marie Thompson, Ke Zhou, Zhenni Hu, Christopher Eric Mullen
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Patent number: 10575179Abstract: Users may enroll one or more devices based on device information and a resource information associated with a resource. Such information and identifiers may be tokenized according to a hash algorithm to generate an enrolled user token. This enrolled user token may be utilized to verify communications and status changes of the user device. In response to a change of status of the user, similar information as that used to generate the enrolled user token, or at least a portion thereof, may be gathered from the user device and subjected to the same hash algorithm to generate a current user token. The current user token and the enrolled user token may be compared to determine if the user device is a spoofed device.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2016Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATEDInventors: Rick Unnerstall, Corey M. Hively
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Publication number: 20190236540Abstract: A shipping remittance processor may receive periodic checkpoint data packets during shipping of an object, via a handler, along a shipping route. The shipping remittance processor may then analyze tracking information located in the checkpoint data packet to determine if the tracking information is authentic, and if the object has reached a checkpoint along the shipping route. If the object has reached the checkpoint, the shipping remittance processor may output a remittance indication indicating to output a portion of the total delivery remittance to the handler's remittance account.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventor: Rick Unnerstall
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Publication number: 20190236715Abstract: A sales tax analysis computing device is configured to: (i) build a database table of locality sales tax data, the database table comprising a plurality of sales tax rates, each sales tax rate of the plurality of sales tax rates associated with a particular locality; (ii) receive at least one of a) transaction data and b) a request from a mobile communications device of a user for locality sales tax data; (iii) determine a first locality associated with at least one of a) the transaction data and b) the mobile communications device; (iv) determine, based on the database table, a first sales tax rate associated with the first locality; (v) identify, based on the database table, at least one sales tax rate that is less than the first sales tax rate; (vi) generate a code snippet that includes the identified at least one sales tax rate; and (vii) provide the code snippet to the mobile communications device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2018Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventor: Rick Unnerstall
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Publication number: 20190197500Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for facilitating network transactions through a virtual terminal assigned to a property. An exemplary method includes assigning, by a computing device, a virtual terminal to a property where the property is associated with a user and activating, by the computing device, the virtual terminal for an account associated with the user. The method also includes soliciting, by the computing device, transaction details from an initiating user, for a network transaction between an account associated with the initiating user and the account of the user, through the virtual terminal in an augmented reality environment when the initiating user is present at the property. The method additionally includes initiating the network transaction based on the transaction details received from the initiating user and the account associated with the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2017Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventor: Rick Unnerstall
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Publication number: 20190180283Abstract: A sleep pattern analyzer (SPA) system for capturing and analyzing sleep data and sleep pattern data is provided. The SPA system is configured to receive sleep data associated with a user, the sleep data including a registered user identifier and at least one sleep time stamp, and store the sleep data in a sleep pattern database. The SPA system is also configured to receive transaction data for a transaction initiated by a consumer with a merchant. The SPA system is further configured to match the consumer identifier to the registered user identifier, generate a fraud notification message when the transaction time stamp overlaps with the at least one sleep time stamp, and transmit the fraud notification message to at least one of an issuer, the merchant, and the consumer associated with the consumer identifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2017Publication date: June 13, 2019Inventor: Rick Unnerstall
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PAYMENT CARD TRANSACTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS WITH INSTANT GEOGRAPHIC MERCHANT INCENTIVE NOTIFICATION
Publication number: 20190130432Abstract: An electronic payment card processing system and method includes a host computing device having at least one processor in communication with a memory device and a multi-party payment processing network for processing payment-by-card transactions. The host computing device is configured to identify a first payment-by-card transaction between an enrolled cardholder and a first enrolled merchant that is processed over the multi-party payment processing network, identify at least one affiliated merchant of the first enrolled merchant; and send an affiliate incentive offer for the at least one affiliated merchant to the enrolled cardholder.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2017Publication date: May 2, 2019Inventor: Rick Unnerstall -
Patent number: 10255579Abstract: A shipping remittance processor may receive periodic checkpoint data packets during shipping of an object, via a handler, along a shipping route. The shipping remittance processor may then analyze tracking information located in the checkpoint data packet to determine if the tracking information is authentic, and if the object has reached a checkpoint along the shipping route. If the object has reached the checkpoint, the shipping remittance processor may output a remittance indication indicating to output a portion of the total delivery remittance to the handler's remittance account.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2016Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATEDInventor: Rick Unnerstall
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Publication number: 20190095858Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for distributing parcels to recipients based on location data associated with the recipients. One exemplary method includes generating and storing a shipping file for the recipient, where the shipping file includes an identifier for a portable communication device associated with the recipient and a defined geographic region for the recipient, and retrieving location data for a location of the portable communication device based on the identifier associated with the portable communication device. The method also includes determining whether the location of the portable communication device is within the defined geographic region. The method then further includes directing an entity associated with the parcel to ship the parcel to the recipient when the location is determined to be within the defined geographic region, and directing the entity to hold shipment of the parcel when the location is determined to be outside the defined geographic region.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2017Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: Rick Unnerstall, Bernard Wong, Corey M. Hively
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Publication number: 20180253464Abstract: A method for verified data storage via blockchain includes: storing a blockchain comprised of a plurality of blocks, each comprised of a block header and a plurality of transaction values, the block header including a timestamp; receiving a transaction notification including an entity identifier and data values; validating the data values based on a validation notification received from a verifying entity; generating a new block header comprised of a current timestamp, a block reference value, and a transaction reference value, the block reference value being generated via hashing of the block header included in a most recent block based on the timestamp, and the transaction reference value being generated via hashing of new transaction values including the data values; generating a new block comprised of the generated new block header and the new transaction values; and transmitting the new block to a node associated with the blockchain.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2018Publication date: September 6, 2018Applicant: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATEDInventors: Manoneet Kohli, Rick Unnerstall, Ankur Arora, Shuvam Sengupta, Pulkit Gupta, Nishant Maheshwari, Shreya Mittal, Manish Kumar, Vikas Bishnoi, Shubham Bijawat, Jaipal Singh Kumawat, Navneet Kumar, Lakshmi Sushma Daggubati, Sri Chaitanya Sanaboina, Deepak Yadav
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Publication number: 20180253704Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for use in facilitating payment account transactions in connection with registration of consumers to participate in fitness events. An example method includes generating, at a fitness-pass engine, a fitness-pass profile for a consumer in association with a fitness-pass application, and associating a payment credential for the consumer with the fitness-pass profile. The method also includes, in response to an input from the fitness-pass application, transmitting, by the fitness-pass engine to the fitness-pass application, event content associated with various fitness events based on the input. The method then includes, in response to a selection of one of the fitness events, facilitating a transaction for a fee associated with the selected fitness event between a fitness event organizer for the event and the consumer based on the consumer's payment credential, and transmitting, by the fitness-pass engine, a confirmation of the transaction to the fitness event organizer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2017Publication date: September 6, 2018Inventors: Rick Unnerstall, Cassandra Boland