Patents by Inventor Robert Andrew Eckel
Robert Andrew Eckel 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: 11625721Abstract: Some implementations provide a method that includes: generating an association, at a mobile device, between a government-issued identification document of a user and a mode of payment; receiving, at the mobile device, a presentation of the government-issued identification document of the user to support a request for payment; validating whether the presented government-issued identification document is a valid identification of the user; and in response to validating the presented government-issued identification document, proceeding with payment by using the mode of payment.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2021Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Inventors: Robert Andrew Eckel, Mohamed Lazzouni
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Patent number: 11373265Abstract: Some implementations may include a computer-assisted method for authenticating a person at a point of service, the method including: receiving a digital identification document including a digital biometric of the person and a digital watermark, the digital watermark encoding personally identifiable information of the person; retrieving the digital watermark from the received digital identification document; extracting the personally identifiable information from the retrieved digital watermark; and authenticating the person identified by the digital biometric based on the retrieved digital watermark.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Idemia Identity & Security USA LLCInventors: Daniel Poder, Robert Andrew Eckel
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Publication number: 20210264427Abstract: Some implementations provide a method that includes: generating an association, at a mobile device, between a government-issued identification document of a user and a mode of payment; receiving, at the mobile device, a presentation of the government-issued identification document of the user to support a request for payment; validating whether the presented government-issued identification document is a valid identification of the user; and in response to validating the presented government-issued identification document, proceeding with payment by using the mode of payment.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2021Publication date: August 26, 2021Inventors: Robert Andrew Eckel, Mohamed Lazzouni
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Patent number: 11087426Abstract: Some implementations may provide a method that includes: receiving, at a mobile device, data encoding a first digital watermark present on the identification document; extracting a first portion of personally identifiable information encoded by a spatial luminance pattern associated with the first digital watermark; receiving, at a mobile device, data encoding a second digital watermark present on the identification document; extracting a second portion of personally identifiable information encoded by a spatial luminance pattern associated with the first digital watermark; and validating the identification document based on at least one of the first portion of personally identifiable information or the second portion of personally identifiable information.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2018Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: MorphoTrust USA, LLCInventors: Daniel Poder, Robert Andrew Eckel
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Patent number: 10957005Abstract: Some implementations may include a method for watermarking an identification document, the method including: modulating a spatial luminance pattern associated with a first digital watermark to encode a first portion of personally identifiable information; modulating a spatial chrominance distribution associated with a second digital watermark to encode a second portion of the personally identifiable information; and applying the first digital watermark and the second digital watermark to the identification document.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2018Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: MorphoTrust USA, LLCInventors: Daniel Poder, Robert Andrew Eckel
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Patent number: 10943233Abstract: Some implementations provide a method that includes: generating an association, at a mobile device, between a government-issued identification document of a user and a mode of payment; receiving, at the mobile device, a presentation of the government-issued identification document of the user to support a request for payment; validating whether the presented government-issued identification document is a valid identification of the user; and in response to validating the presented government-issued identification document, proceeding with payment by using the mode of payment.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: MorphoTrust USA, LLCInventors: Robert Andrew Eckel, Mohamed Lazzouni
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Publication number: 20210026979Abstract: In some implementations, a computer-implemented method and system for enrolling customers into a digital identification program may include obtaining, from a digital identification database, customer information that describes a customer, providing to the customer device an access code for activation, receiving a request from the customer device for the digital identification, where the request includes the access code and customer information that describes the customer, providing a request for secure information that describes the customer from a secure information database, receiving the secure information that describes the customer stored in the secure information database, generating the digital identification for the customer based on the secure information and the customer information, and providing the digital identification to the customer device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventors: Robert Andrew Eckel, A. David Kelts
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Patent number: 10692167Abstract: Some implementations may include a method for watermarking an identification document, the method including: modulating a spatial luminance pattern associated with a first digital watermark to encode a first portion of personally identifiable information; modulating a spatial chrominance distribution associated with a second digital watermark to encode a second portion of the personally identifiable information; and applying the first digital watermark and the second digital watermark to the identification document.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2019Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: MorphoTrust USA, LLCInventors: Daniel Poder, Robert Andrew Eckel
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Patent number: 10678939Abstract: In some implementations, a computer-implemented method and system for enrolling customers into a digital identification program may include obtaining, from a digital identification database, customer information that describes a customer, providing to the customer device an access code for activation, receiving a request from the customer device for the digital identification, where the request includes the access code and customer information that describes the customer, providing a request for secure information that describes the customer from a secure information database, receiving the secure information that describes the customer stored in the secure information database, generating the digital identification for the customer based on the secure information and the customer information, and providing the digital identification to the customer device.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2018Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: MorphoTrust USA, LLCInventors: Robert Andrew Eckel, A. David Kelts
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Patent number: 10679105Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying, by a computer system, at least one line of a plurality of lines that are disposed at a first layer of a card; providing, by the computer system and based on the identified at least one line, control signals to a laser device of the computer system, the control signals indicating coordinates for the identified at least one line; generating, by the laser device and based on the control signals, one or more line patterns that are embedded at a particular layer of the card.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2018Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: Idemia Identity & Security USA LLCInventors: Robert L. Jones, Robert Andrew Eckel
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Publication number: 20200126082Abstract: Some implementations provide a method that includes: generating an association, at a mobile device, between a government-issued identification document of a user and a mode of payment; receiving, at the mobile device, a presentation of the government-issued identification document of the user to support a request for payment; validating whether the presented government-issued identification document is a valid identification of the user; and in response to validating the presented government-issued identification document, proceeding with payment by using the mode of payment.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2019Publication date: April 23, 2020Inventors: Robert Andrew Eckel, Mohamed Lazzouni
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Publication number: 20190364038Abstract: Some implementations may include a computer-assisted method for digitizing an identification document, the method including: receiving a digital biometric of a subject; applying the received digital biometric to a digital identification document; applying a digital watermark to the digital identification document, the digital watermark encoding personally identifiable information of the subject identified by the digital biometric; and generating the digital identification document with the applied digital watermark, the digital identification document comprising both the digital watermark and the digital biometric.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2019Publication date: November 28, 2019Inventors: Daniel Poder, Robert Andrew Eckel
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Publication number: 20190362458Abstract: Some implementations may include a computer-assisted method for authenticating a person at a point of service, the method including: receiving a digital identification document including a digital biometric of the person and a digital watermark, the digital watermark encoding personally identifiable information of the person; retrieving the digital watermark from the received digital identification document; extracting the personally identifiable information from the retrieved digital watermark; and authenticating the person identified by the digital biometric based on the retrieved digital watermark.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2019Publication date: November 28, 2019Applicant: MORPHOTRUST USA, LLCInventors: Daniel Poder, Robert Andrew Eckel
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Patent number: 10474891Abstract: Some implementations provide a machine-assisted method for screening a person, the method including: receiving, at a scanning device, an identification document presented by the person, the identification document showing a machine-readable code that encodes personally identifiable information of the person, a biometric of the person, and printed information; scanning the machine-readable code on the identification document to extract personally identifiable information of the person; comparing the extracted personally identifiable information against records stored at a database; determining that the extracted personal identifiable information matches a record stored at the database; receiving data encoding the biometric of the person on the identification document for comparison with the person presenting the identification document; receiving a determination that the biometric from the identification document identifies the person presenting the identification document; and determining whether the identifiType: GrantFiled: July 18, 2018Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: MorphoTrust USA, LLCInventors: Robert Andrew Eckel, Thiagarajan Saravanan
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Patent number: 10460163Abstract: Some implementations may include a method for watermarking an identification document, the method including: receiving a digitally watermarked digital facial portrait of the person, the digital facial portrait embedded with at least one digital watermark identifying payload data linking the digital facial portrait to the person portrayed in the digital facial portrait; receiving results of comparison between the digital facial portrait of the person and the person presenting the digitally watermarked digital facial portrait; retrieving the at least one digital watermark in response to receiving comparison results that the person portrayed in the digital facial portrait is the person presenting the digitally watermarked digital facial portrait; and determining that the digital facial portrait is authentic based on the retrieved at least one digital watermark.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2018Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: MorphoTrust USA, LLCInventors: Daniel Poder, Robert Andrew Eckel
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Publication number: 20190205713Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying, by a computer system, at least one line of a plurality of lines that are disposed at a first layer of a card; providing, by the computer system and based on the identified at least one line, control signals to a laser device of the computer system, the control signals indicating coordinates for the identified at least one line; generating, by the laser device and based on the control signals, one or more line patterns that are embedded at a particular layer of the card.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2018Publication date: July 4, 2019Inventors: Robert L. Jones, Robert Andrew Eckel
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Publication number: 20190202229Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying one or more layers of a document, where at least one layer is an inner layer having a particular depth; determining a spectral feature from among multiple spectral features for application to the one or more layers of the document; determining a particular type of line segment code for application to the one or more layers of the document; and generating an identification document by: i) applying the spectral feature; and ii) applying the particular type of line segment code to the inner layer having the particular depth, wherein the particular depth is determined relative to at least one other layer of the document.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2018Publication date: July 4, 2019Inventors: Robert L. Jones, Yecheng Wu, Daoshen Bi, Robert Andrew Eckel
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Patent number: 10332191Abstract: A steganographic-based ordering system and method using a digital identification (ID) are described. A user may obtain a digital ID card on a user device and select modes for interacting with the vendor. Using the digital ID, the user can create a personal profile that indicates the user's preferences, and place an order for an item (e.g., a product or service) through the digital ID. The order may be steganographically-embedded along with user data within the digital ID. The digital ID including the steganographically-em bedded order is transmitted to a digital ID reader located at the vendor. When completing an order for the user, the digital ID reader may de-embed user and order data from the received digital ID to obtain information about the user and provide more personalized service to complete the order.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2015Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: MorphoTrust USA, LLCInventor: Robert Andrew Eckel
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Publication number: 20190188821Abstract: Some implementations may include a method for watermarking an identification document, the method including: modulating a spatial luminance pattern associated with a first digital watermark to encode a first portion of personally identifiable information; modulating a spatial chrominance distribution associated with a second digital watermark to encode a second portion of the personally identifiable information; and applying the first digital watermark and the second digital watermark to the identification document.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2019Publication date: June 20, 2019Applicant: MorphoTrust USA, LLCInventors: Daniel Poder, Robert Andrew Eckel
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Patent number: 10320778Abstract: Some implementations may include a computer-assisted method for digitizing an identification document, the method including: receiving a digital biometric of a subject; applying the received digital biometric to a digital identification document; applying a digital watermark to the digital identification document, the digital watermark encoding personally identifiable information of the subject identified by the digital biometric; and generating the digital identification document with the applied digital watermark, the digital identification document comprising both the digital watermark and the digital biometric.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2014Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: MorphoTrust USA, LLCInventors: Daniel Poder, Robert Andrew Eckel