Patents by Inventor Valery Gorodnichev

Valery Gorodnichev 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: 20220261759
    Abstract: Methods and systems for expense management, comprising: retrieving at least one electronic feed of charges for multiple expense receipt records directly from at least one lodging and/or transportation vendor, the at least one feed of charges including computer-readable electronic transaction data; detecting that at least one expense receipt record from the multiple expense receipt records from the at least one feed of charges is comprised of two or more line items; mapping the two or more line items to at least one transportation and/or lodging good and/or service that is chargeable to at least one account identifier, the mapping utilizing vendor expense codes and/or keyword searches; and pre-populating the at least one transportation and/or lodging good and/or service mapped to each of the two or more line items from the at least one expense receipt record in at least one expense report in at least one expense management system as two or more expense itemizations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Michael Fredericks, Joseph Dunnick, Valery Gorodnichev, Jeannine Armstrong
  • Patent number: 11361281
    Abstract: Methods and systems for expense management, comprising: retrieving at least one electronic feed of charges for multiple expense receipt records directly from at least one lodging and/or transportation vendor, the at least one feed of charges including computer-readable electronic transaction data; detecting that at least one expense receipt record from the multiple expense receipt records from the at least one feed of charges is comprised of two or more line items; mapping the two or more line items to at least one transportation and/or lodging good and/or service that is chargeable to at least one account identifier, the mapping utilizing vendor expense codes and/or keyword searches; and pre-populating the at least one transportation and/or lodging good and/or service mapped to each of the two or more line items from the at least one expense receipt record in at least one expense report in at least one expense management system as two or more expense itemizations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Michael Fredericks, Joseph Dunnick, Valery Gorodnichev, Jeannine Armstrong
  • Publication number: 20200219060
    Abstract: Methods and systems for expense management, comprising: retrieving at least one electronic feed of charges for multiple expense receipt records directly from at least one lodging and/or transportation vendor, the at least one feed of charges including computer-readable electronic transaction data; detecting that at least one expense receipt record from the multiple expense receipt records from the at least one feed of charges is comprised of two or more line items; mapping the two or more line items to at least one transportation and/or lodging good and/or service that is chargeable to at least one account identifier, the mapping utilizing vendor expense codes and/or keyword searches; and pre-populating the at least one transportation and/or lodging good and/or service mapped to each of the two or more line items from the at least one expense receipt record in at least one expense report in at least one expense management system as two or more expense itemizations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Fredericks, Joseph Dunnick, Valery Gorodnichev, Jeannine Armstrong
  • Patent number: 10565558
    Abstract: Methods and systems for expense management, comprising: retrieving at least one electronic feed of charges for multiple expense receipt records directly from at least one lodging and/or transportation vendor, the at least one feed of charges including computer-readable electronic transaction data; detecting that at least one expense receipt record from the multiple expense receipt records from the at least one feed of charges is comprised of two or more line items; mapping the two or more line items to at least one transportation and/or lodging good and/or service that is chargeable to at least one account identifier, the mapping utilizing vendor expense codes and/or keyword searches; and pre-populating the at least one transportation and/or lodging good and/or service mapped to each of the two or more line items from the at least one expense receipt record in at least one expense report in at least one expense management system as two or more expense itemizations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: CONCUR TECHNOLOGIES
    Inventors: Michael Fredericks, Joseph Dunnick, Valery Gorodnichev, Jeannine Armstrong
  • Publication number: 20170337515
    Abstract: Methods and systems for expense management, comprising: retrieving at least one electronic feed of charges for multiple expense receipt records directly from at least one lodging and/or transportation vendor, the at least one feed of charges including computer-readable electronic transaction data; detecting that at least one expense receipt record from the multiple expense receipt records from the at least one feed of charges is comprised of two or more line items; mapping the two or more line items to at least one transportation and/or lodging good and/or service that is chargeable to at least one account identifier, the mapping utilizing vendor expense codes and/or keyword searches; and pre-populating the at least one transportation and/or lodging good and/or service mapped to each of the two or more line items from the at least one expense receipt record in at least one expense report in at least one expense management system as two or more expense itemizations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Applicant: Concur Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Fredericks, Joseph Dunnick, Valery Gorodnichev, Jeannine Armstrong
  • Patent number: 9779384
    Abstract: Methods and systems for expense management, comprising: automatically detecting whether a credit card line item record created from a receipt record generated by processing an electronic feed of charges has been identified as a travel expense; identifying, based on a date of a charge of the electronic feed on credit card line item records, whether any of the credit card line item records identified occurred within a time period of an existing trip; automatically assigning any credit card line item records identified as an allowable expense and occurring during the time period for the existing trip for which one existing expense report exists, to an existing expense report; and automatically creating a newly created expense report and assigning to the newly created expense report any credit card line item records identified as an allowable expense and occurring during the time period for the existing trip for which no existing expense reports exists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: CONCUR TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Fredericks, Joseph Dunnick, Valery Gorodnichev, Jeanine Armstrong
  • Publication number: 20120150572
    Abstract: A method and system, comprising: a network; at least one terminal coupled to the network; and at least one server coupled to the network. The server comprises a program that comprises: retrieving travel data records corresponding to travel requests; retrieving expense data records reflecting expense transactions; comparing the expense; data records to the travel data records; and determining a likelihood that the expense data records match the travel data records.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: CONCUR TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Michael FREDERICKS, Joseph DUNNICK, Valery GORODNICHEV, Jeannine ARMSTRONG
  • Patent number: 8140361
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method for integrating travel and expense management. The present invention enables an entity to integrate not only data that matches exactly, but also determine the likelihood that data that does not match exactly nevertheless corresponds to each other. The system comprises: a network; at least one terminal coupled to the network; and at least one server coupled to the network. The server comprises a program that includes: retrieving travel data records corresponding to travel requests; retrieving expense data records reflecting expense transactions; comparing the expense data records to the travel data records; and determining a likelihood that the expense data records match the travel data records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Concur Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Fredericks, Joseph Dunnick, Valery Gorodnichev, Jeannine Armstrong
  • Publication number: 20120059745
    Abstract: A method for expense management. An expense data record is retrieved from a trusted source and two or more sub-transactions are identified. The expense data record is then added to an expense report as two or more expense items corresponding to the two or more sub-transactions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Applicant: CONCUR TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Fredericks, Joseph Dunnick, Valery Gorodnichev, Jeannine Armstrong
  • Publication number: 20110258005
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system for ancillary travel vendor fee expense management comprising: receiving, by at least one expense management application, travel expense transaction data, said travel expense transaction data further comprising at least one expense transaction attribute; generating, by the at least one expense management application, at least one travel expense transaction record, wherein said at least one travel expense transaction record includes said expense transaction data, and storing said at least one expense transaction record in an expense transaction database; determining, by at least one ancillary fee module which analyzes the at least one expense transaction attribute, whether the at least one expense transaction corresponds to a travel event, a fee for an ancillary good or service offered by a travel vendor, or a fee for an ancillary good or service offered by a travel agency; presenting the at least one expense transaction record on a computerized user interface contained
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2010
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Inventors: Michael Fredericks, Ellen Trotochaud, Sarah Kuberry, Joyce Clippinger, Valery Gorodnichev, Scott Johnson, Leonard Tong, Sanjay Almeida, Anil Bhagwat, Paul Parter, John Love
  • Patent number: 7974892
    Abstract: A method for expense management. An expense data record is retrieved from a trusted source and two or more sub-transactions are identified. The expense data record is then added to an expense report as two or more expense items corresponding to the two or more sub-transactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Concur Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Fredericks, Joseph Dunnick, Valery Gorodnichev, Jeannine Armstrong
  • Publication number: 20100257003
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method for integrating travel and expense management. The present invention enables an entity to integrate not only data that matches exactly, but also determine the likelihood that data that does not match exactly nevertheless corresponds to each other. The system comprises: a network; at least one terminal coupled to the network; and at least one server coupled to the network. The server comprises a program that includes: retrieving travel data records corresponding to travel requests; retrieving expense data records reflecting expense transactions; comparing the expense data records to the travel data records; and determining a likelihood that the expense data records match the travel data records.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2010
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Applicant: CONCUR TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Fredericks, Joseph Dunnick, Valery Gorodnichev, Jeannine Armstrong
  • Patent number: 7720702
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method for integrating travel and expense management. The present invention enables an entity to integrate not only data that matches exactly, but also determine the likelihood that data that does not match exactly nevertheless corresponds to each other. The system comprises: a network; at least one terminal coupled to the network; and at least one server coupled to the network. The server comprises a program that includes: retrieving travel data records corresponding to travel requests; retrieving expense data records reflecting expense transactions; comparing the expense data records to the travel data records; and determining a likelihood that the expense data records match the travel data records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Concur Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Fredericks, Joseph Dunnick, Valery Gorodnichev, Jeannine Armstrong
  • Publication number: 20080126143
    Abstract: A system and method for booking and expensing travel products and services utilizing multiple data sources and presenting information pulled from the multiple data sources in one user-friendly format. The following features are included: graphical city selection; policy enforcement; request and approval queues: in-browser agent support; request prioritization; email confirmation and integration; data incorporation into expense reports; and expense report audits. For example, an employee books a ticket, has the booking approved by a manager if needed, receives email confirmation and integrates the booking information into the employee's calendar. The employee also submits, for example, the booking information into an expense report, which can be audited by an employer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2007
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Applicant: CONCUR TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan ALTMAN, Michael Fredericks, Andrew Csontos, Michael Lore, John Love, Bret Harris, John Lueker, Valery Gorodnichev, Jeannine Armstrong, Joseph Dunnick, Bruce Elliott, Gary Mendel, Thomas Jones, Thomas DePasquale
  • Publication number: 20050289025
    Abstract: A method for expense management. An expense data record is retrieved from a trusted source and two or more sub-transactions are identified. The expense data record is then added to an expense report as two or more expense items corresponding to the two or more sub-transactions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2005
    Publication date: December 29, 2005
    Inventors: Michael Fredericks, Joseph Dunnick, Valery Gorodnichev, Jeannine Armstrong
  • Publication number: 20040167808
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method for integrating travel and expense management. The present invention enables an entity to integrate not only data that matches exactly, but also determine the likelihood that data that does not match exactly nevertheless corresponds to each other. The system comprises: a network; at least one terminal coupled to the network; and at least one server coupled to the network. The server comprises a program that includes: retrieving travel data records corresponding to travel requests; retrieving expense data records reflecting expense transactions; comparing the expense data records to the travel data records; and determining a likelihood that the expense data records match the travel data records.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2003
    Publication date: August 26, 2004
    Inventors: Michael Fredericks, Joseph Dunnick, Valery Gorodnichev, Jeannine Armstrong
  • Publication number: 20030120526
    Abstract: A system and method for booking and expensing travel products and services utilizing multiple data sources and presenting information pulled from the multiple data sources in one user-friendly format. The following features are included: graphical city selection; policy enforcement; request and approval queues; in-browser agent support; request prioritization; email confirmation and integration; data incorporation into expense reports; and expense report audits. For example, an employee books a ticket, has the booking approved by a manager if needed, receives email confirmation and integrates the booking information into the employee's calendar. The employee also submits, for example, the booking information into an expense report, which can be audited by an employer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2002
    Publication date: June 26, 2003
    Inventors: Jonathan Altman, Michael Fredericks, Andrew Csontos, Michael Lore, John Love, Bret Harris, John Lueker, Valery Gorodnichev, Jeannine Armstrong, Joseph Dunnick, Bruce Elliott, Gary Mendel, Thomas Jones, Thomas DePasquale