Patents by Inventor Samuel Rapowitz
Samuel Rapowitz 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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Publication number: 20260322813Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described herein for improving the accuracy of authentication questions using e-mail processing. A request for access to an account may be received from a user device. A plurality of organizations may be identified. One or more e-mail associated with the account may be identified. The e-mails may be processed to identify one or more organizations that correspond to transactions conducted by a user. A modified plurality of organizations may be generated by removing, from the plurality of organizations, the one or more organizations. An authentication question may be generated and provided to the user device. A response to the authentication question may be received, and the user device may be provided access based on the response.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2026Publication date: October 15, 2026Inventors: Viraj Chaudhary, Vyjayanthi Vadrevu, Tyler Maiman, David Septimus, Samuel Rapowitz, Jenny Melendez, Joshua Edwards
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Publication number: 20260312950Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described herein for improving computer authentication processes through the generation of synthetic merchants. A plurality of different real merchant names may be received. The plurality of different real merchant names may be processed to determine one or more name elements. A request for access to an account associated with a user may be received. Based on the one or more name elements, one or more synthetic merchant names may be generated. Based on the one or more synthetic merchant names, synthetic transaction data may then be generated. A synthetic authentication question may be generated and presented to a user. A candidate response to the synthetic authentication question may be received. Based on the candidate response, access to the account may be provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2026Publication date: October 8, 2026Inventors: Joshua Edwards, Jenny Melendez, Tyler Maiman, David Septimus, Viraj Chaudhary, Samuel Rapowitz, Daniel Miller
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Publication number: 20260278062Abstract: Methods of verifying a user's identity using trusted members of the user's community are provided. Users may request trusted friends and family members register as vouching users. If a user needs to confirm the user's identity, such as during a multifactor authentication verification or in the event of a forgotten credential, vouching users may be called upon to verify user identity. Vouching users may confirm a user's identity via a group communication session or by proving physical proximity to the user. Physical proximity may be proven by tapping a token, such as an electronic device or a transaction card, to either the user's device and/or the vouching user's device. Using trusted friends and family members to verify a user's identity safeguards online accounts from deep fake AI creations and protects susceptible online users from phishing schemes and social engineering attacks.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2026Publication date: September 17, 2026Inventors: Armando Martinez Stone, Samuel Rapowitz, Bryant Yee
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Patent number: 12737749Abstract: Disclosed embodiments may include a system for improving usability of a contactless payment terminal device. The system may detect a presence of a contactless transaction card. Responsive to determining that the contactless transaction card is not positioned at a desired location relative to a location of a contactless transaction card reader, the system may output a dynamic proximity guide indication. The dynamic proximity guide indication may be configured to provide a dynamically changing indication of how close the contactless transaction card is to being positioned at the desired location.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2023Date of Patent: September 15, 2026Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLCInventors: Samuel Rapowitz, Bryant Yee, Armando Martinez Stone
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Patent number: 12683960Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described herein for improving the accuracy of authentication questions using e-mail processing. A request for access to an account may be received from a user device. A plurality of organizations may be identified. One or more e-mail associated with the account may be identified. The e-mails may be processed to identify one or more organizations that correspond to transactions conducted by a user. A modified plurality of organizations may be generated by removing, from the plurality of organizations, the one or more organizations. An authentication question may be generated and provided to the user device. A response to the authentication question may be received, and the user device may be provided access based on the response.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2024Date of Patent: July 14, 2026Assignee: Capital One Services, LLCInventors: Viraj Chaudhary, Vyjayanthi Vadrevu, Tyler Maiman, David Septimus, Samuel Rapowitz, Jenny Melendez, Joshua Edwards
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Patent number: 12676849Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described herein for improving computer authentication processes through the generation of synthetic merchants. A plurality of different real merchant names may be received. The plurality of different real merchant names may be processed to determine one or more name elements. A request for access to an account associated with a user may be received. Based on the one or more name elements, one or more synthetic merchant names may be generated. Based on the one or more synthetic merchant names, synthetic transaction data may then be generated. A synthetic authentication question may be generated and presented to a user. A candidate response to the synthetic authentication question may be received. Based on the candidate response, access to the account may be provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2024Date of Patent: July 7, 2026Assignee: Capital One Services, LLCInventors: Joshua Edwards, Jenny Melendez, Tyler Maiman, David Septimus, Viraj Chaudhary, Samuel Rapowitz, Daniel Miller
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Patent number: 12657277Abstract: Methods of verifying a user's identity using trusted members of the user's community are provided. Users may request trusted friends and family members register as vouching users. If a user needs to confirm the user's identity, such as during a multifactor authentication verification or in the event of a forgotten credential, vouching users may be called upon to verify user identity. Vouching users may confirm a user's identity via a group communication session or by proving physical proximity to the user. Physical proximity may be proven by tapping a token, such as an electronic device or a transaction card, to either the user's device and/or the vouching user's device. Using trusted friends and family members to verify a user's identity safeguards online accounts from deep fake AI creations and protects susceptible online users from phishing schemes and social engineering attacks.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2023Date of Patent: June 16, 2026Assignee: Capital One Services, LLCInventors: Armando Martinez Stone, Samuel Rapowitz, Bryant Yee
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Patent number: 12657572Abstract: Systems and methods for distributing a transaction among multiple parties are provided. In exemplaray embodiments where users have two or more contactless cards, each card can be tapped to a user device, and a user device application can receive payment information from each card. The user device application can transmit payment information from each card to one selected card. The selected card can then transmit payment information from each card, including its own payment information, to a payment processor.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2023Date of Patent: June 16, 2026Assignee: Capital One Services, LLCInventors: Samuel Rapowitz, Bryant Yee, Armando Martinez Stone
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Publication number: 20260149711Abstract: Methods of verifying a user's identity using trusted members of the user's community are provided. Users may request trusted friends and family members register as vouching users. If a user needs to confirm the user's identity, such as during a multifactor authentication verification or in the event of a forgotten credential, vouching users may be called upon to verify user identity. Vouching users may confirm a user's identity via a group communication session or by proving physical proximity to the user. Physical proximity may be proven by tapping a token, such as an electronic device or a transaction card, to either the user's device and/or the vouching user's device. Using trusted friends and family members to verify a user's identity safeguards online accounts from deep fake AI creations and protects susceptible online users from phishing schemes and social engineering attacks.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2025Publication date: May 28, 2026Inventors: Armando Martinez Stone, Samuel Rapowitz, Bryant Yee
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Patent number: 12639387Abstract: Systems and methods for generating directional information, including detecting an occurrence of a first trigger event, upon detecting the occurrence of the first trigger event, generating a first search query based on a predicted object, determining a target object based on the first search query, determining a recommended navigation path to the target object, generating a first graphical user interface (GUI) based on the recommended navigation path, and causing to display the first GUI.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2024Date of Patent: May 26, 2026Assignee: Capital One Services, LLCInventors: Samuel Rapowitz, Tyler Maiman, Armando Martinez Stone
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Publication number: 20260141388Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described herein for authenticating access to an account using questions which allow users to provide textual information about transactions conducted by an account. A machine learning model may be trained to predict the guessability of merchants. A request for access to an account may be received, and transaction data for that account may be received. An authentication question may be presented. For example, a user may be prompted to list places they have shopped recently. A user response comprising text data may be received. The text data may be processed to identify one or more merchants. If the one or more merchant(s) are represented in the transaction data, the machine learning model may be used to determine the guessability of the one or more merchants. An authentication score may be determined based on the guessability, and access to the account may be provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2026Publication date: May 21, 2026Inventors: Tyler Maiman, David Septimus, Samuel Rapowitz, Jenny Melendez, Viraj Chaudhary, Joshua Edwards
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Patent number: 12597013Abstract: In some implementations, a device may receive information indicating a set of parameters for a partition of a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) implemented by a distributed database. The set of parameters may include a first parameter indicating a condition for completion of the partition and a second parameter indicating a digital asset wallet of a recipient that is to receive digital assets associated with the partition upon completion of the partition. The device may cause a smart contract, associated with the partition, to be added to the distributed database. The smart contract may include executable code that codifies the set of parameters. The smart contract may be configured to cause, responsive to satisfaction of the condition for completion of the partition, a record to be added to an additional distributed database indicating an association between a digital asset wallet of the partition and the digital asset wallet of the recipient.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2022Date of Patent: April 7, 2026Assignee: Capital One Services, LLCInventors: Lin Ni Lisa Cheng, Xiaoguang Zhu, Samuel Rapowitz
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Publication number: 20260094158Abstract: Aspects described herein may provide techniques for authenticating a user using transaction-based authentication questions that are generated based on item-level purchase data. The item-level purchase data of a transaction may include specific details of a transaction such as identification of each item purchased and corresponding prices paid for each item. Transaction-based authentication questions for a financial account may be generated based on the item-level purchase data that an authorized user of the financial account is likely to remember and that a malicious actor is unlikely to correctly guess. As a result, the authorized user of the account is likely to be correctly authenticated while the malicious actor is likely to answer the transaction-based authentication question incorrectly. Authentication can therefore effectively block malicious actors without overly burdening actual authorized users during the authentication process.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2025Publication date: April 2, 2026Inventors: Daniel Miller, Joshua Edwards, Jenny Melendez, David Septimus, Tyler Maiman, Viraj Chaudhary, Samuel Rapowitz, Vyjayanthi Vadrevu
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Patent number: 12548027Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described herein for authenticating access to an account using questions which allow users to provide textual information about transactions conducted by an account. A machine learning model may be trained to predict the guessability of merchants. A request for access to an account may be received, and transaction data for that account may be received. An authentication question may be presented. For example, a user may be prompted to list places they have shopped recently. A user response comprising text data may be received. The text data may be processed to identify one or more merchants. If the one or more merchant(s) are represented in the transaction data, the machine learning model may be used to determine the guessability of the one or more merchants. An authentication score may be determined based on the guessability, and access to the account may be provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2024Date of Patent: February 10, 2026Assignee: Capital One Services, LLCInventors: Tyler Maiman, David Septimus, Samuel Rapowitz, Jenny Melendez, Viraj Chaudhary, Joshua Edwards
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Publication number: 20260030632Abstract: In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides an exemplary method that may include steps of receiving a permission from at least one user of a plurality of users to monitor at least one location associated with a device, utilizing a machine learning algorithm to automatically authenticate at least one action associated with the device based on at least one data beacon generating a primed signal; transmitting a plurality of data from the device to an external data source associated with the at least one action within a predetermined period of time based on the location of the device and the primed signal; and dynamically updating a storage module associated with the device with metadata based on a transmission of the plurality of data associated with the at least one action.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2024Publication date: January 29, 2026Inventors: Armando Martinez Stone, Samuel Rapowitz, Bryant Yee
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Patent number: 12538341Abstract: Methods and systems for limiting resource access based on user input using an authentication token. In some aspects, the authentication token receives user input indicating a first allocation for a first resource access to be executed at a first time. The authentication token generates recommendations for a second allocation related to the first allocation. The user selects a second allocation. At the first time, the authentication token receives a first resource access request and executes the first allocation. The authentication token also transmits first metadata to an access approval system. At the second time, in response to a second resource access request, the authentication token or the access approval system compares the second resource access request to the first metadata or the second allocation to approve or decline the second resource access request.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2023Date of Patent: January 27, 2026Assignee: Capital One Services, LLCInventors: Armando Martinez Stone, Samuel Rapowitz, Bryant Yee
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Patent number: 12524766Abstract: Aspects described herein may provide techniques for authenticating a user using transaction-based authentication questions that are generated based on item-level purchase data. The item-level purchase data of a transaction may include specific details of a transaction such as identification of each item purchased and corresponding prices paid for each item. Transaction-based authentication questions for a financial account may be generated based on the item-level purchase data that an authorized user of the financial account is likely to remember and that a malicious actor is unlikely to correctly guess. As a result, the authorized user of the account is likely to be correctly authenticated while the malicious actor is likely to answer the transaction-based authentication question incorrectly. Authentication can therefore effectively block malicious actors without overly burdening actual authorized users during the authentication process.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2024Date of Patent: January 13, 2026Assignee: Capital One Services, LLCInventors: Daniel Miller, Joshua Edwards, Jenny Melendez, David Septimus, Tyler Maiman, Viraj Chaudhary, Samuel Rapowitz, Vyjayanthi Vadrevu
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Patent number: 12519779Abstract: Methods of verifying a user's identity using trusted members of the user's community are provided. Users may request trusted friends and family members register as vouching users. If a user needs to confirm the user's identity, such as during a multifactor authentication verification or in the event of a forgotten credential, vouching users may be called upon to verify user identity. Vouching users may confirm a user's identity via a group communication session or by proving physical proximity to the user. Physical proximity may be proven by tapping a token, such as an electronic device or a transaction card, to either the user's device and/or the vouching user's device. Using trusted friends and family members to verify a user's identity safeguards online accounts from deep fake AI creations and protects susceptible online users from phishing schemes and social engineering attacks.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2023Date of Patent: January 6, 2026Assignee: Capital One Services, LLCInventors: Armando Martinez Stone, Samuel Rapowitz, Bryant Yee
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Publication number: 20260004304Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described herein for improving computer authentication processes through excluding fraudulent transactions in transaction-based authentication. A computing device may receive a request for access to an account from a user. The computing device may provide transaction data to a machine learning model. The computing device may receive data indicating a confidence threshold associated with the user from the machine learning model. The computing device may generate a modified set of merchant choices for the user by excluding merchants related to potentially fraudulent transactions within a predetermined time period. An authentication question may be generated, and access to the account may be provided based on a response to the authentication question.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2024Publication date: January 1, 2026Inventors: Samuel Rapowitz, Viraj Chaudhary, Joshua Edwards, David Septimus, Tyler Maiman, Daniel Miller
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Patent number: 12511656Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described herein for improving computer authentication processes through excluding fraudulent transactions in transaction-based authentication. A computing device may receive a request for access to an account from a user. The computing device may provide transaction data to a machine learning model. The computing device may receive data indicating a confidence threshold associated with the user from the machine learning model. The computing device may generate a modified set of merchant choices for the user by excluding merchants related to potentially fraudulent transactions within a predetermined time period. An authentication question may be generated, and access to the account may be provided based on a response to the authentication question.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2024Date of Patent: December 30, 2025Assignee: Capital One Services, LLCInventors: Samuel Rapowitz, Viraj Chaudhary, Joshua Edwards, David Septimus, Tyler Maiman, Daniel Miller