Patents by Inventor Steve Puffer

Steve Puffer 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: 12205121
    Abstract: A computer system includes a token repository configured to store payment tokens, and a server system. The server system includes a processor and instructions stored in non-transitory machine-readable media, the instructions configured to cause the server system to receive a request to provision a payment token based on a financial product, wherein the request includes information related to the financial product, provision a payment token based on the token request, including authenticating the financial product based on the financial product information and generating the payment token upon authenticating the financial product, wherein the payment token is useable to make a payment via the financial product, and store the payment token in the token repository.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Azita Asefi, Jorge Michirefe, Al Hecht, Steve Puffer, Peter Ho
  • Publication number: 20240420150
    Abstract: A computer system includes a token repository configured to store payment tokens, and a server system. The server system includes a processor and instructions stored in non-transitory machine-readable media, the instructions configured to cause the server system to receive a request to provision a payment token based on a financial product, wherein the request includes information related to the financial product, provision a payment token based on the token request, including authenticating the financial product based on the financial product information and generating the payment token upon authenticating the financial product, wherein the payment token is useable to make a payment via the financial product, and store the payment token in the token repository.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Azita Asefi, Jorge Michirefe, Al Hecht, Steve Puffer, Peter Ho
  • Publication number: 20240354745
    Abstract: A mobile device includes a processing circuit that is configured to perform operations including enabling access to a client application during a first session based on a first device token identifying the first session and the mobile device and a customer token identifying a user and receiving a second device token from the computing system during the first session. The second device token identifies the mobile device and a second session. The operations further include receiving, during the first session, an identifier from the computing system. The identifier is associated with the user and generated by the computing system in response to a request from the mobile device. The operations further include receiving, via the mobile device during the first session and based on a comparison of the received identifier with an existing identifier, an approval for the request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ashish Bhoopen Kurani, Nikolai Stroke, Bipin Sahni, Stephen M. Ellis, Steve Puffer
  • Patent number: 12073409
    Abstract: A computer system includes a token repository configured to store payment tokens, and a server system. The server system includes a processor and instructions stored in non-transitory machine-readable media, the instructions configured to cause the server system to receive a request to provision a payment token based on a financial product, wherein the request includes information related to the financial product, provision a payment token based on the token request, including authenticating the financial product based on the financial product information and generating the payment token upon authenticating the financial product, wherein the payment token is useable to make a payment via the financial product, and store the payment token in the token repository.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Azita Asefi, Jorge Michirefe, Al Hecht, Steve Puffer, Peter Ho
  • Patent number: 12056688
    Abstract: A mobile device includes a processing circuit to perform operations including transmitting a device token and a customer token to a computing system, the device token identifying the mobile device and a first session of a client application, the customer token identifying a user. The operations can include enabling access to the client application during the first session based on the device token and the customer token and receiving a second device token, the second device token identifying the mobile device and a second session. The operations can include receiving, during the first session, an identification number associated with an account of the user for a transaction, the identification number generated in response to a fund request from the mobile device. The operations can include providing a user interface displayed on the mobile device during the first session and receiving during the first session, an approval for the transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ashish Bhoopen Kurani, Nikolai Stroke, Bipin Sahni, Stephen M. Ellis, Steve Puffer
  • Publication number: 20240127255
    Abstract: A computer system includes a token repository configured to store payment tokens, and a server system. The server system includes a processor and instructions stored in non-transitory machine-readable media, the instructions configured to cause the server system to receive a request to provision a payment token based on a financial product, wherein the request includes information related to the financial product, provision a payment token based on the token request, including authenticating the financial product based on the financial product information and generating the payment token upon authenticating the financial product, wherein the payment token is useable to make a payment via the financial product, and store the payment token in the token repository.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Azita Asefi, Jorge Michirefe, Al Hecht, Steve Puffer, Peter Ho
  • Publication number: 20240086931
    Abstract: A computer system includes a token repository configured to store payment tokens, and a server system. The server system includes a processor and instructions stored in non-transitory machine-readable media, the instructions configured to cause the server system to receive a request to provision a payment token based on a financial product, wherein the request includes information related to the financial product, provision a payment token based on the token request, including authenticating the financial product based on the financial product information and generating the payment token upon authenticating the financial product, wherein the payment token is useable to make a payment via the financial product, and store the payment token in the token repository.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Azita Asefi, Jorge Michirefe, Al Hecht, Steve Puffer, Peter Ho
  • Patent number: 11928668
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a fund access request from a user device associated with a user; generating a tokenized card number based on an actual card account number of the user that substitutes the actual card account number in a payment transaction; providing a code to the user device including the tokenized card number and a numeric or alphanumeric string of values; determining that the numeric or alphanumeric string of values in the code transmitted to the user device matches a numeric or alphanumeric string of values in a field of a code received from a separate computer system; determining that a location of the user device matches a merchant location; authenticating the payment transaction based on the numeric or alphanumeric match and the location match; and, transmitting the actual card account number to the separate computer system as part of the payment transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ashish Bhoopen Kurani, Nikolai Stroke, Bipin Sahni, Stephen M. Ellis, Steve Puffer
  • Patent number: 11893588
    Abstract: A computer system includes a token repository configured to store payment tokens, and a server system. The server system includes a processor and instructions stored in non-transitory machine-readable media, the instructions configured to cause the server system to receive a request to provision a payment token based on a financial product, wherein the request includes information related to the financial product, provision a payment token based on the token request, including authenticating the financial product based on the financial product information and generating the payment token upon authenticating the financial product, wherein the payment token is useable to make a payment via the financial product, and store the payment token in the token repository.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Azita Asefi, Jorge Michirefe, Al Hecht, Steve Puffer, Peter Ho
  • Patent number: 11861594
    Abstract: A computer system includes a token repository configured to store payment tokens, and a server system. The server system includes a processor and instructions stored in non-transitory machine-readable media, the instructions configured to cause the server system to receive a request to provision a payment token based on a financial product, wherein the request includes information related to the financial product, provision a payment token based on the token request, including authenticating the financial product based on the financial product information and generating the payment token upon authenticating the financial product, wherein the payment token is useable to make a payment via the financial product, and store the payment token in the token repository.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Azita Asefi, Jorge Michirefe, Al Hecht, Steve Puffer, Peter Ho
  • Patent number: 11823205
    Abstract: A computer system includes a token repository configured to store payment tokens, and a server system. The server system includes a processor and instructions stored in non-transitory machine-readable media, the instructions configured to cause the server system to receive a request to provision a payment token based on a financial product, wherein the request includes information related to the financial product, provision a payment token based on the token request, including authenticating the financial product based on the financial product information and generating the payment token upon authenticating the financial product, wherein the payment token is useable to make a payment via the financial product, and store the payment token in the token repository.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Azita Asefi, Jorge Michirefe, Al Hecht, Steve Puffer, Peter Ho
  • Publication number: 20230281633
    Abstract: A computer system includes a token repository configured to store payment tokens, and a server system. The server system includes a processor and instructions stored in non-transitory machine-readable media, the instructions configured to cause the server system to receive a request to provision a payment token based on a financial product, wherein the request includes information related to the financial product, provision a payment token based on the token request, including authenticating the financial product based on the financial product information and generating the payment token upon authenticating the financial product, wherein the payment token is useable to make a payment via the financial product, and store the payment token in the token repository.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Azita Asefi, Jorge Michirefe, Al Hecht, Steve Puffer, Peter Ho
  • Patent number: 11651379
    Abstract: A computer system includes a token repository configured to store payment tokens, and a server system. The server system includes a processor and instructions stored in non-transitory machine-readable media, the instructions configured to cause the server system to receive a request to provision a payment token based on a financial product, wherein the request includes information related to the financial product, provision a payment token based on the token request, including authenticating the financial product based on the financial product information and generating the payment token upon authenticating the financial product, wherein the payment token is useable to make a payment via the financial product, and store the payment token in the token repository.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Azita Asefi, Jorge Michirefe, Al Hecht, Steve Puffer, Peter Ho
  • Patent number: 11574300
    Abstract: A mobile wallet computer server receives a fund access request from a user device. The fund access request is made in connection with a payment transaction. The mobile wallet server generates a tokenized card number, transmits the tokenized card number to the user device, and receives receive the tokenized card number from a card network computer system after having been routed from the user device via a merchant computer system and via an acquirer processor computer system. The mobile wallet computer server converts the tokenized card number to the actual credit card account number of the user and transmits the actual credit card account number to the card network computer system to process the payment transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ashish Bhoopen Kurani, Nikolai Stroke, Bipin Sahni, Stephen M. Ellis, Steve Puffer
  • Patent number: 11562347
    Abstract: A computer system includes a token repository configured to store payment tokens, and a server system. The server system includes a processor and instructions stored in non-transitory machine-readable media, the instructions configured to cause the server system to receive a request to provision a payment token based on a financial product, wherein the request includes information related to the financial product, provision a payment token based on the token request, including authenticating the financial product based on the financial product information and generating the payment token upon authenticating the financial product, wherein the payment token is useable to make a payment via the financial product, and store the payment token in the token repository.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Azita Asefi, Jorge Michirefe, Al Hecht, Steve Puffer, Peter Ho
  • Patent number: 11461766
    Abstract: A mobile wallet computer server receives a fund access request from a user device. The fund access request is made in connection with a payment transaction. The mobile wallet server generates a tokenized card number, transmits the tokenized card number to the user device, and receives receive the tokenized card number from a card network computer system after having been routed from the user device via a merchant computer system and via an acquirer processor computer system. The mobile wallet computer server converts the tokenized card number to the actual credit card account number of the user and transmits the actual credit card account number to the card network computer system to process the payment transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ashish Bhoopen Kurani, Nikolai Stroke, Bipin Sahni, Stephen M. Ellis, Steve Puffer
  • Patent number: 11429975
    Abstract: A computer system includes a token repository configured to store payment tokens, and a server system. The server system includes a processor and instructions stored in non-transitory machine-readable media, the instructions configured to cause the server system to receive a request to provision a payment token based on a financial product, wherein the request includes information related to the financial product, provision a payment token based on the token request, including authenticating the financial product based on the financial product information and generating the payment token upon authenticating the financial product, wherein the payment token is useable to make a payment via the financial product, and store the payment token in the token repository.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Azita Asefi, Jorge Michirefe, Al Hecht, Steve Puffer, Peter Ho
  • Patent number: 11410161
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for executing a transaction includes receiving, by a card network computer system, an identification number, the identification number being received from an acquirer processor computer system after having been routed from a mobile wallet computer system, via a user device and a merchant computer system, to the acquirer processor computer system. The method also includes transmitting, by the card network computer system, the identification number back to the mobile wallet computer system. The method also includes receiving, by the card network computer system, from the mobile wallet computer system, an approval of the transaction, the approval being generated by the mobile wallet computer system based on a match of the identification number transmitted by the mobile wallet computer system to the user device and the identification number received by the mobile wallet computer system from the card network computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ashish Bhoopen Kurani, Nikolai Stroke, Bipin Sahni, Stephen M. Ellis, Steve Puffer
  • Patent number: 11170614
    Abstract: A method for authenticating a transaction includes replacing a first security value of a transaction device with a second security value; receiving, during a first transaction, the second security value; authenticating the first transaction based at least in part on the second security value; determining that a predetermined number of transactions have occurred during which the second verification value was not rewritten since the second security value was replaced; responsive to determining that the predetermined number of transactions have occurred, replacing the second security value on the transaction device with a third security value; receiving, during a second transaction, the third security value; and authenticating the second transaction based at least in part on the third security value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Michael Thomas, Jesse Lee, Steve Puffer, Jerome Rhodes
  • Publication number: 20210019741
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method that includes sending, by a mobile wallet server, an identification number that is part of a substitute card number to be used by a mobile device as a mobile wallet, determining an actual card number based on the substitute card number and sending the actual card number and the identification number for processing a payment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Ashish Bhoopen Kurani, Nikolai Stroke, Bipin Sahni, Stephen M. Ellis, Steve Puffer