Patents by Inventor Stephen A. Parento

Stephen A. Parento 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: 10290061
    Abstract: A method includes storing payroll information for an employee of an employer. The payroll information may include the employee's name, address, electronic contact information, etc. A payroll service computer may receive an indication from an employer that the computer is to make a payroll disbursement to the employee. The computer may present disbursement options to the employee. The employee may select one of the disbursement options. The computer may initiate the payroll disbursement in accordance with the option selected by the employee.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Mastercard International Incorporated
    Inventors: Stephen A. Parento, Ronald Carl Hynes, Shekhar Sahgal
  • Publication number: 20190108508
    Abstract: Pursuant to some embodiments, systems, methods, apparatus, and means for conducting payment transactions using mobile devices are provided in which a mobile device is presented at a point of sale for use in a payment transaction. A selection of a primary account is received from a user of the mobile device, and the mobile device automatically identifies a product type of the primary payment account. The mobile device selects and transmits a proxy payment account identifier having a product type equivalent to the product type of the primary payment account to the point of sale for use in the payment transaction. The point of sale causes a first payment authorization request message to be routed to an issuer of the proxy payment account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Stephen A. Parento, Ron Hynes
  • Patent number: 10147084
    Abstract: Pursuant to some embodiments, systems, methods, apparatus, and means for conducting payment transactions using mobile devices are provided in which a mobile device is presented at a point of sale for use in a payment transaction. A selection of a primary account is received from a user of the mobile device, and the mobile device automatically identifies a product type of the primary payment account. The mobile device selects and transmits a proxy payment account identifier having a product type equivalent to the product type of the primary payment account to the point of sale for use in the payment transaction. The point of sale causes a first payment authorization request message to be routed to an issuer of the proxy payment account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Mastercard International Incorporated
    Inventors: Stephen A. Parento, Ron Hynes
  • Publication number: 20170161845
    Abstract: A method includes storing payroll information for an employee of an employer. The payroll information may include the employee's name, address, electronic contact information, etc. A payroll service computer may receive an indication from an employer that the computer is to make a payroll disbursement to the employee. The computer may present disbursement options to the employee. The employee may select one of the disbursement options. The computer may initiate the payroll disbursement in accordance with the option selected by the employee.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Stephen A. Parento, Ronald Carl Hynes, Shekhar Sahgal
  • Patent number: 9613381
    Abstract: A method includes storing payroll information for an employee of an employer. The payroll information may include the employee's name, address, electronic contact information, etc. A payroll service computer may receive an indication from an employer that the computer is to make a payroll disbursement to the employee. The computer may present disbursement options to the employee. The employee may select one of the disbursement options. The computer may initiate the payroll disbursement in accordance with the option selected by the employee.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: MasterCard International Incorporated
    Inventors: Stephen A. Parento, Ronald Carl Hynes, Shekhar Sahgal
  • Publication number: 20160110752
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing benefits to loyalty cardholders via loyalty card transactions are disclosed. In one example, the method includes receiving, by a loyalty program module, a message indicating that a loyalty card transaction has been initiated at a participating merchant site using a loyalty card associated with a cardholder account, wherein the cardholder account is enrolled in a loyalty benefit program managed via the loyalty program module, determining a loyalty level assigned to the cardholder account using information regarding the loyalty card transaction contained in the message, and utilizing the loyalty level assigned to the cardholder account to determine at least one merchant-specific differentiated benefit to be provided to a holder of the loyalty card, wherein each loyalty level includes at least one merchant-specific differentiated benefit designated by the participating partner merchant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: Stephen A. Parento, Sumeet Bhatt
  • Publication number: 20160104186
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing inflight benefits via purchase card transactions are disclosed. An exemplary method includes at an airline perk management module (APMM), receiving an indication that an airline ticket is purchased using a loyalty card corresponding to a passenger enrolled in an airline perk program, identifying at least one airline perk associated with an aircraft seat assignment corresponding to the purchased airline ticket, and notifying an inflight service provider to deliver, inflight, the at least one identified airline perk to a passenger having the aircraft seat assignment. An exemplary system includes at least one processor and memory, whereby APMM utilizes the at least one processor and the memory to notify a merchant airline to deliver the at least one airline perk to a passenger having a seat assignment on an airline, the airline ticket for the seat assignment being purchased using a loyalty card.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Inventors: Stephen A. Parento, Sumeet Bhatt
  • Publication number: 20160048929
    Abstract: A method includes storing payroll information for an employee of an employer. The payroll information may include the employee's name, address, electronic contact information, etc. A payroll service computer may receive an indication from an employer that the computer is to make a payroll disbursement to the employee. The computer may present disbursement options to the employee. The employee may select one of the disbursement options. The computer may initiate the payroll disbursement in accordance with the option selected by the employee.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Inventors: Stephen A. Parento, Ronald Carl Hynes, Shekhar Sahgal
  • Publication number: 20150324835
    Abstract: A customer rewards system includes a plurality of merchant point of sale (POS) terminals, a merchant computer, a rebate computer having a rebate computer processor operably connected to a storage device, and a payment system. The rebate computer receives, from the merchant device, a batch of transaction data of items purchased by cardholders, tracks purchases of a plurality of cardholders related to certain items purchased during a predetermined period of time, determines that a particular cardholder qualifies for a rebate amount, generates a payment transaction request that includes a special rebate account number of a special rebate account for funding rebates, and transmits the payment transaction request to the payment system to credit the rebate amount to a payment card account of the cardholder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Inventor: Stephen A. Parento
  • Publication number: 20150242843
    Abstract: Pursuant to some embodiments, systems, methods, apparatus, and means for conducting payment transactions using mobile devices are provided in which a mobile device is presented at a point of sale for use in a payment transaction. A selection of a primary account is received from a user of the mobile device, and the mobile device automatically identifies a product type of the primary payment account. The mobile device selects and transmits a proxy payment account identifier having a product type equivalent to the product type of the primary payment account to the point of sale for use in the payment transaction. The point of sale causes a first payment authorization request message to be routed to an issuer of the proxy payment account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Stephen A. Parento, Ron Hynes
  • Patent number: 9053481
    Abstract: Pursuant to some embodiments, systems, methods, apparatus, and means for conducting payment transactions using mobile devices are provided in which a mobile device is presented at a point of sale for use in a payment transaction. A selection of a primary account is received from a user of the mobile device, and the mobile device automatically identifies a product type of the primary payment account. The mobile device selects and transmits a proxy payment account identifier having a product type equivalent to the product type of the primary payment account to the point of sale for use in the payment transaction. The point of sale causes a first payment authorization request message to be routed to an issuer of the proxy payment account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: MasterCard International Incorporated
    Inventors: Stephen A. Parento, Ron Hynes
  • Publication number: 20130166402
    Abstract: Pursuant to some embodiments, systems, methods, apparatus, and means for conducting payment transactions using mobile devices are provided in which a mobile device is presented at a point of sale for use in a payment transaction. A selection of a primary account is received from a user of the mobile device, and the mobile device automatically identifies a product type of the primary payment account. The mobile device selects and transmits a proxy payment account identifier having a product type equivalent to the product type of the primary payment account to the point of sale for use in the payment transaction. The point of sale causes a first payment authorization request message to be routed to an issuer of the proxy payment account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Inventors: Stephen A. Parento, Ron Hynes
  • Publication number: 20100332307
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a batch of transaction data. The transaction data is transmitted from a computer operated by or on behalf of a merchant. The transaction data relates to a plurality of purchase transactions performed at the merchant. The transaction data includes purchased item data that identifies at least some items purchased in the purchase transactions. The transaction data includes for each purchase transaction a respective payment card account number that identifies a respective payment card account to which the purchase transaction in question was charged. The method further includes identifying, from the transaction data, ones of the purchase transactions that qualify for customer rebates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventor: Stephen A. Parento