Patents by Inventor Smita Sebastian

Smita Sebastian 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: 20240054471
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing push payment transaction processing in a card-present environment are provided. The described push payment transactions processing enables a user having any form factor visiting at a merchant location accepting payment cards to perform push payment transactions. Indeed, push payment transactions can be supported from physical point-of-sale (“POS”) or originate from POS terminals. During the described push payment transaction processing, a merchant acquirer can receive, from a POS terminal, a push payment transaction request comprising at least a transaction type indicating a push payment transaction, transaction information, authorization data, and sender information. In response to receiving the push payment transaction request, the merchant acquirer can generate an application programming interface (API) request package comprising the push payment transaction request; and communicate the API request package to an intermediary platform connected to a payment network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Christopher Loh, Gerardo Cardone, John J. Doherty, Luis Filipe de Almeida Ferreira da Silva, Nishith Shah, Robert Gerald Leonard, Smita Sebastian
  • Patent number: 11455592
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for facilitating interactive delivery of a product to a recipient, through compiled delivery scenarios. One exemplary method includes soliciting a parameter (or parameters) associated with a product subject to purchase by a consumer, and transmitting an invitation to an interactive delivery of the product to a recipient. The method also includes compiling a scenario for the interactive delivery of the product based on the parameter(s) and, in response to acceptance of the invitation, transmitting the scenario to a communication device associated with the recipient. The method further includes appending a product insignia to the scenario in response to the communication device traveling to at least one intermediate location of the scenario, and transmitting a confirmation for the product when the communication device travels to a delivery location associated with the product insignia, whereby the recipient is permitted to receive the product based on the confirmation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Uthra Agrawal, Shunmuga Sundaram Mohankumar, Smita Sebastian, Gautam Uppalapati, Steve Podgorski
  • Patent number: 11244322
    Abstract: A method includes associating a virtual card number (VCN) with an account owned by a customer. The VCN is in a format used for account numbers in a payment card system. The account is not a payment card system account. After a P2M (person to merchant) push payment transaction funded by the account, a request is received from the customer to perform a chargeback with respect to the P2M transaction. A message is transmitted to execute the requested chargeback. The message includes the VCN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Smita Sebastian, Pablo Fourez, Mary K Rechert, Jeanne B Moore
  • Publication number: 20200090180
    Abstract: A method includes associating a virtual card number (VCN) with an account owned by a customer. The VCN is in a format used for account numbers in a payment card system. The account is not a payment card system account. After a P2M (person to merchant) push payment transaction funded by the account, a request is received from the customer to perform a chargeback with respect to the P2M transaction. A message is transmitted to execute the requested chargeback. The message includes the VCN.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Smita Sebastian, Pablo Fourez, Mary K Rechert, Jeanne B Moore
  • Publication number: 20190188694
    Abstract: A merchant computer system receives a first token transmitted to the merchant computer system from a customer device. A request for a second token is transmitted from the merchant computer system to a payment processor computer. The request includes the first token. The merchant computer system receives the second token that it requested. The second token is different from the first token. The merchant computer system transmits a payment account system transaction request to the payment processor computer. The latter request includes the second token.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Gautam Uppalapati, Smita Sebastian, Joshua Nathan Anderson, Sowmya Reddy Lakka
  • Publication number: 20190108582
    Abstract: A digital account reference is associated with a user's account. A refund message is received. The refund message includes the digital account reference. A monetary amount is credited to the user's account based on the refund message. A notification is transmitted to the user. The notification is about the credit to the account. The transmission of the notification occurs immediately after the refund message is received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Smita Sebastian, Pablo Fourez, Shawn Eric Hagmeier, Mary K. Rechert, Dennis J. Hill
  • Publication number: 20180357592
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for facilitating interactive delivery of a product to a recipient, through compiled delivery scenarios. One exemplary method includes soliciting a parameter (or parameters) associated with a product subject to purchase by a consumer, and transmitting an invitation to an interactive delivery of the product to a recipient. The method also includes compiling a scenario for the interactive delivery of the product based on the parameter(s) and, in response to acceptance of the invitation, transmitting the scenario to a communication device associated with the recipient. The method further includes appending a product insignia to the scenario in response to the communication device traveling to at least one intermediate location of the scenario, and transmitting a confirmation for the product when the communication device travels to a delivery location associated with the product insignia, whereby the recipient is permitted to receive the product based on the confirmation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Uthra Agrawal, Shunmuga Sundaram Mohankumar, Smita Sebastian, Gautam Uppalapati, Steve Podgorski
  • Publication number: 20180047021
    Abstract: Provided are a system and methods for reducing the amount of payment information stored by a merchant. In one example, a method includes receiving payment card information of a cardholder from a payment information receiving module displayed in a web browser of a computing device, generating a token for the payment card information received from the payment information receiving module, and transmitting the generated token to a merchant server for a transaction between the merchant and the cardholder. According to various aspects, the payment information receiving module is displayed in the web browser of the computing device in response to a merchant website being displayed therein, and the payment card information is received by the payment processing server, from the payment information receiving module, without being stored by the computing device and without passing through the merchant server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Inventors: Gautam Uppalapati, Joshua Nathan Anderson, Smita Sebastian