Patents by Inventor Sumeet Ahuja

Sumeet Ahuja 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: 20240114037
    Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for targeted authentication queries based on detected user actions. A user may perform various actions during a day, including online, electronic, or digital actions, such as social networking, messaging, and media consumption, as well as real-life actions, such as exercise, travel, and purchases. The actions may be used to determine a user history for the user by a service provider. When the user wishes to login to an account or otherwise authenticate the identity of the user, the user may provide login or authentication credentials. The credentials may be used to look up the user history and cause the service provider to generate an authentication—query for the user based on events associated with the user in the user history. The query may be utilized to further authenticate the user by requiring the user to respond with the event associated with the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Michael Charles Todasco, Sumeet Ahuja, Geetha Kuppuswamy, Prashanthi Ravanavarapu
  • Patent number: 11875352
    Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for dynamic authentication through user information and intent. A user may wish to purchase an item that they view on a merchant marketplace using a computer of mobile phone. The merchant for the merchant marketplace may register the user's intent to purchase the item by receiving the user's actions while browsing the marketplace. The user may further provide user information with the merchant, such as a biometric reading, identifier, or other information. When the user then arrives at a merchant location to purchase the item and complete a transaction using a payment instrument, the merchant may process the user's intent and information to determine how confident the merchant is that the user is entitled to utilize the payment method. Such confidence rating may correspond to whether the merchant believes the transaction is fraudulent or if the user is misrepresenting their identity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventor: Sumeet Ahuja
  • Patent number: 11818140
    Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for targeted authentication queries based on detected user actions. A user may perform various actions during a day, including online, electronic, or digital actions, such as social networking, messaging, and media consumption, as well as real-life actions, such as exercise, travel, and purchases. The actions may be used to determine a user history for the user by a service provider. When the user wishes to login to an account or otherwise authenticate the identity of the user, the user may provide login or authentication credentials. The credentials may be used to look up the user history and cause the service provider to generate an authentication—query for the user based on events associated with the user in the user history. The query may be utilized to further authenticate the user by requiring the user to respond with the event associated with the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Charles Todasco, Sumeet Ahuja, Geetha Kuppuswamy, Prashanthi Ravanavarapu
  • Patent number: 11755714
    Abstract: Various systems, mediums, and methods herein describe aspects of an authentication system. The system may receive a request from a user device to authenticate a user. The system may determine a route travelled by the user. The route can be determined based at least on data retrieved from the user device of the user. The system may determine one or more objects viewable along the route. At least one image of the one or more objects can be selected. The system may communicate the at least one image and at least one other image to the user device to be displayed on the user device. The system may receive a selection of the at least one image by the user through a display of the user device. The authentication of the user can be based, at least in part, on the user selection of the at least one image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Charles Todasco, Sumeet Ahuja, Prashanthi Ravanavarapu, Geetha Kuppuswamy, Dushyanth Bharadwaj
  • Publication number: 20230098707
    Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for a network of personalized devices determining data for shopping predictions. A personalized device may include processing components for determining purchase predictions for one or more items to purchase on behalf of a user. The purchase predictions may be based on personality traits and other information that may indicate interests of the user. The purchase predictions may also be based on purchase information for the item, including inventory of the item, price of the item, availability of the item to the user, or other factor. Once the purchase prediction is determined, the personalized device may generate a purchase request for the item from a merchant having the item at a physical merchant location accessible to the personalized device or a delivery device associated with the personalized device. The personalized device may retrieve and deliver the purchased item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventor: Sumeet Ahuja
  • Publication number: 20220358201
    Abstract: Various systems, mediums, and methods herein describe aspects of an authentication system. The system may receive a request from a user device to authenticate a user. The system may determine a route travelled by the user. The route can be determined based at least on data retrieved from the user device of the user. The system may determine one or more objects viewable along the route. At least one image of the one or more objects can be selected. The system may communicate the at least one image and at least one other image to the user device to be displayed on the user device. The system may receive a selection of the at least one image by the user through a display of the user device. The authentication of the user can be based, at least in part, on the user selection of the at least one image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Michael Charles Todasco, Sumeet Ahuja, Prashanthi Ravanavarapu, Geetha Kuppuswamy, Dushyanth Bharadwaj
  • Patent number: 11461780
    Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for shared authentication for limited use of an associated account based on user location and connected devices. A user may own a location where another user may visit or rent. The user may have a payment account that may be used with merchants to purchase items that are associated with the location or offered with use of the location. The user may set up the payment account to have a shared authentication mechanism with other users that utilize the location to allow the other users to pay for items using the payment account. The authentication mechanism may be a credential that may be pushed to a device of one or more of the other users when the other users are at or nearby the location or may be information of the other users that may be matched during transaction processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Charles Todasco, Anand Lakshmanan, Patrick Wong, Brandye Cassandra Sweetnam, Sumeet Ahuja
  • Patent number: 11461821
    Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for a network of personalized devices determining data for shopping predictions. A personalized device may include processing components for determining purchase predictions for one or more items to purchase on behalf of a user. The purchase predictions may be based on personality traits and other information that may indicate interests of the user. The purchase predictions may also be based on purchase information for the item, including inventory of the item, price of the item, availability of the item to the user, or other factor. Once the purchase prediction is determined, the personalized device may generate a purchase request for the item from a merchant having the item at a physical merchant location accessible to the personalized device or a delivery device associated with the personalized device. The personalized device may retrieve and deliver the purchased item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventor: Sumeet Ahuja
  • Patent number: 11403376
    Abstract: A system, a medium, and a method involve a communication interface of a server device that receives first activity data associated with a first activity of an account and second activity data associated with a second activity of the account. A processor of the server device determines a first location of the first activity from the first activity data and a second location of the second activity from the second activity data. An authentication circuit of the server device determines a first authentication of the first activity based at least on the first activity data. The authentication circuit determines a second authentication of the second activity based on at least one of the first authentication, the first location, and the second location. A transmitter of the communication interface transmits an indication of the second authentication to a client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: David Edward Eramian, Michael Charles Todasco, Sumeet Ahuja
  • Patent number: 11392681
    Abstract: Various systems, mediums, and methods herein describe aspects of an authentication system. The system may receive a request from a user device to authenticate a user. The system may determine a route traveled by the user. The route can be determined based at least on data retrieved from the user device of the user. The system may determine one or more objects viewable along the route. At least one image of the one or more objects can be selected. The system may communicate the at least one image and at least one other image to the user device to be displayed on the user device. The system may receive a selection of the at least one image by the user through a display of the user device. The authentication of the user can be based, at least in part, on the user selection of the at least one image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Charles Todasco, Sumeet Ahuja, Prashanthi Ravanavarapu, Geetha Kuppuswamy, Dushyanth Bharadwaj
  • Publication number: 20210406898
    Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for dynamic authentication through user information and intent. A user may wish to purchase an item that they view on a merchant marketplace using a computer of mobile phone. The merchant for the merchant marketplace may register the user's intent to purchase the item by receiving the user's actions while browsing the marketplace. The user may further provide user information with the merchant, such as a biometric reading, identifier, or other information. When the user then arrives at a merchant location to purchase the item and complete a transaction using a payment instrument, the merchant may process the user's intent and information to determine how confident the merchant is that the user is entitled to utilize the payment method. Such confidence rating may correspond to whether the merchant believes the transaction is fraudulent or if the user is misrepresenting their identity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventor: Sumeet Ahuja
  • Publication number: 20210360003
    Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for targeted authentication queries based on detected user actions. A user may perform various actions during a day, including online, electronic, or digital actions, such as social networking, messaging, and media consumption, as well as real-life actions, such as exercise, travel, and purchases. The actions may be used to determine a user history for the user by a service provider. When the user wishes to login to an account or otherwise authenticate the identity of the user, the user may provide login or authentication credentials. The credentials may be used to look up the user history and cause the service provider to generate an authentication—query for the user based on events associated with the user in the user history. The query may be utilized to further authenticate the user by requiring the user to respond with the event associated with the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Michael Charles Todasco, Sumeet Ahuja, Geetha Kuppuswamy, Prashanthi Ravanavarapu
  • Patent number: 11144947
    Abstract: A method for managing loyalty groups at point-of-sale (POS) accesses is discussed. The method includes determining that a user account is a member of a loyalty group, responsive to determining that a user device of the user account is used at merchant's POS. The method includes determining a loyalty membership type for the user account that indicates whether user details of the user account are accessible by the merchant. The method includes determining another user account from the loyalty group, the loyalty membership type further indicating whether the user details are accessible by the another user account. The method includes determining whether the loyalty membership type for the user account can be upgraded, and if so, providing communication to the user device to cause a user interface of the user device to display a prompt for providing access to additional user details to upgrade the loyalty membership type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Sumeet Ahuja, Michael Charles Todasco
  • Patent number: 11075924
    Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for targeted authentication queries based on detected user actions. A user may perform various actions during a day, including online, electronic, or digital actions, such as social networking, messaging, and media consumption, as well as real-life actions, such as exercise, travel, and purchases. The actions may be used to determine a user history for the user by a service provider. When the user wishes to login to an account or otherwise authenticate the identity of the user, the user may provide login or authentication credentials. The credentials may be used to look up the user history and cause the service provider to generate an authentication query for the user based on events associated with the user in the user history. The query may be utilized to further authenticate the user by requiring the user to respond with the event associated with the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Charles Todasco, Sumeet Ahuja, Geetha Kuppuswamy, Prashanthi Ravanavarapu
  • Patent number: 11004081
    Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for dynamic authentication through user information and intent. A user may wish to purchase an item that they view on a merchant marketplace using a computer of mobile phone. The merchant for the merchant marketplace may register the user's intent to purchase the item by receiving the user's actions while browsing the marketplace. The user may further provide user information with the merchant, such as a biometric reading, identifier, or other information. When the user then arrives at a merchant location to purchase the item and complete a transaction using a payment instrument, the merchant may process the user's intent and information to determine how confident the merchant is that the user is entitled to utilize the payment method. Such confidence rating may correspond to whether the merchant believes the transaction is fraudulent or if the user is misrepresenting their identity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventor: Sumeet Ahuja
  • Patent number: 10761212
    Abstract: Various systems, mediums, and methods herein describe mechanisms that enable client devices to transfer data between various sources and/or requesters. A smartphone system may receive one or more touch inputs from a graphical user interface. The smartphone system may determine a quantity requested and an identifier of the one or more requesters of the quantity. The smartphone system may determine one or more sources able to provide the requested quantity based on the identifier, where each source may be able to provide at least a portion of the quantity requested. The smartphone system may generate an indication of the one or more sources to display the indication on the graphical user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: John Tsai, Sumeet Ahuja
  • Publication number: 20200250292
    Abstract: Various systems, mediums, and methods herein describe aspects of an authentication system. The system may receive a request from a user device to authenticate a user. The system may determine a route traveled by the user. The route can be determined based at least on data retrieved from the user device of the user. The system may determine one or more objects viewable along the route. At least one image of the one or more objects can be selected. The system may communicate the at least one image and at least one other image to the user device to be displayed on the user device. The system may receive a selection of the at least one image by the user through a display of the user device. The authentication of the user can be based, at least in part, on the user selection of the at least one image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Charles Todasco, Sumeet Ahuja, Prashanthi Ravanavarapu, Geetha Kuppuswamy, Dushyanth Bharadwaj
  • Patent number: 10692083
    Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for automatic authentication for a user with a service provider during a voice data connection to a merchant. A user may place a voice call to an entity, for example, through a plain old telephone service (POTS) or through voice over IP. The voice call may be detected by a service provider, which may determine whether the entity receiving the voice call requires authentication of the user during the voice call. The service provider may further determine whether the entity requires authentication of the user for use of an account with the service provider. The service provider may communicate information used to authenticate the user to the entity during the voice call. Additionally, the service provider may generate an authentication mechanism for the payment account, which may be used to authenticate use of the payment account by the user during the voice call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Charles Todasco, Anand Lakshmanan, Patrick Wong, Brandye Sweetnam, Sumeet Ahuja
  • Publication number: 20200053075
    Abstract: A system, a medium, and a method involve a communication interface of a server device that receives first activity data associated with a first activity of an account and second activity data associated with a second activity of the account. A processor of the server device determines a first location of the first activity from the first activity data and a second location of the second activity from the second activity data. An authentication circuit of the server device determines a first authentication of the first activity based at least on the first activity data. The authentication circuit determines a second authentication of the second activity based on at least one of the first authentication, the first location, and the second location. A transmitter of the communication interface transmits an indication of the second authentication to a client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: David Edward Eramian, Michael Charles Todasco, Sumeet Ahuja
  • Patent number: 10558793
    Abstract: Various systems, mediums, and methods herein describe aspects of an authentication system. The system may receive a request from a user device to authenticate a user. The system may determine a route travelled by the user. The route can be determined based at least on data retrieved from the user device of the user. The system may determine one or more objects viewable along the route. At least one image of the one or more objects can be selected. The system may communicate the at least one image and at least one other image to the user device to be displayed on the user device. The system may receive a selection of the at least one image by the user through a display of the user device. The authentication of the user can be based, at least in part, on the user selection of the at least one image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Charles Todasco, Sumeet Ahuja, Prashanthi Ravanavarapu, Geetha Kuppuswamy, Dushyanth Bharadwaj