Patents by Inventor Robert M. Mauldin

Robert M. Mauldin 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: 8751377
    Abstract: A system and method for providing emergency reserve conditional credit to a customer of a financial institution. The emergency conditional credit may be provided to the customer in the form of a line-of-credit or a loan based on the occurrence of a predetermined condition, such as involuntary unemployment, disability or the like. The emergency reserve product of the present invention is a product that can be offered through a financial institution or other ER-providing entity and, as such, does not require the level of regulation required of an insurance product. The invention also provides for the emergency reserve product to be offered in conjunction with a debt cancellation feature, referred to as emergency reserve protection, which serves to cancel the outstanding debt associated with the loan or line-of-credit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey H. Bierer, Andrew Kramer, Robert M. Mauldin, Thomas Myrick
  • Patent number: 8706613
    Abstract: A system and method for providing emergency conditional credit to a customer of a financial institution. The system includes a customer site and a financial institution. The financial institution determines actuarial data using past history of customers incurring specified events, the actuarial data useable to predict future specified events, determines a cost for offering an emergency reserve (ER) product using the actuarial data, determines a qualification standard for the ER product, and offers the ER product to a person at the customer site. An emergency reserve protection (ERP) feature that provides protection that cancels any ER balance on a monthly basis during a covered event may also be offered to customers. One or more vendor sites may be used to handle some of the processing or managing of the ER and ERP product offerings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey H. Bierer, Andrew Kramer, Robert M. Mauldin, Thomas Myrick
  • Publication number: 20100306108
    Abstract: A system and method for providing emergency reserve conditional credit to a customer of a financial institution. The emergency conditional credit may be provided to the customer in the form of a line-of-credit or a loan based on the occurrence of a predetermined condition, such as involuntary unemployment, disability or the like. The emergency reserve product of the present invention is a product that can be offered through a financial institution or other ER-providing entity and, as such, does not require the level of regulation required of an insurance product. The invention also provides for the emergency reserve product to be offered in conjunction with a debt cancellation feature, referred to as emergency reserve protection, which serves to cancel the outstanding debt associated with the loan or line-of-credit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jeffrey H. Bierer, Andrew Kramer, Robert M. Mauldin, Thomas Myrick
  • Publication number: 20090048972
    Abstract: A system and method for providing emergency conditional credit to a customer of a financial institution. The system includes a customer site and a financial institution. The financial institution determines actuarial data using past history of customers incurring specified events, the actuarial data useable to predict future specified events, determines a cost for offering an emergency reserve (ER) product using the actuarial data, determines a qualification standard for the ER product, and offers the ER product to a person at the customer site. An emergency reserve protection (ERP) feature that provides protection that cancels any ER balance on a monthly basis during a covered event may also be offered to customers. One or more vendor sites may be used to handle some of the processing or managing of the ER and ERP product offerings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2007
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Inventors: Jeffrey H. Bierer, Andrew Kramer, Robert M. Mauldin, Thomas Myrick