Patents by Inventor William A. Rickard

William A. Rickard 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: 20230090159
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for computerized methods and systems for processing transaction disputes and processing transactions associated with compromised accounts. According to one exemplary method, a server receives, from a user device, an instruction for disputing a transaction associated with a user account. The server can initiate, based on a record of the transaction, a dispute investigation, and issue provisional credit to the user account for the transaction. Based on a transaction history associated with the user account, the server can determine a plurality of expected transactions associated with the user account and cause the determined expected transactions to be displayed on the user device. After receiving a transaction authorization for at least one of the plurality of expected transactions, the server can process payments for the at least one of the plurality of expected transactions, and generate a notification indicating a status of the dispute investigation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Luis MARTINEZ-GUARNEROS, Marc-Edwin Sebastian RIGAUD, Brian R. BEZANSON, William A. RICKARD, Timothy Bryan INNES, Tim Allen PRIEBE, Eric Vincent LITTLE
  • Patent number: 11544716
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for computerized methods and systems for processing transaction disputes and processing transactions associated with compromised accounts. According to one exemplary method, a server receives, from a user device, an instruction for disputing a transaction associated with a user account. The server can initiate, based on a record of the transaction, a dispute investigation, and issue provisional credit to the user account for the transaction. Based on a transaction history associated with the user account, the server can determine a plurality of expected transactions associated with the user account and cause the determined expected transactions to be displayed on the user device. After receiving a transaction authorization for at least one of the plurality of expected transactions, the server can process payments for the at least one of the plurality of expected transactions, and generate a notification indicating a status of the dispute investigation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Fidelity Information Services, LLC
    Inventors: Luis Martinez-Guarneros, Marc-Edwin Sebastian Rigaud, Brian R. Bezanson, William A. Rickard, Timothy Bryan Innes, Tim Allen Priebe, Eric Vincent Little
  • Publication number: 20210390545
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for computerized methods and systems for processing transaction disputes and processing transactions associated with compromised accounts. According to one exemplary method, a server receives, from a user device, an instruction for disputing a transaction associated with a user account. The server can initiate, based on a record of the transaction, a dispute investigation, and issue provisional credit to the user account for the transaction. Based on a transaction history associated with the user account, the server can determine a plurality of expected transactions associated with the user account and cause the determined expected transactions to be displayed on the user device. After receiving a transaction authorization for at least one of the plurality of expected transactions, the server can process payments for the at least one of the plurality of expected transactions, and generate a notification indicating a status of the dispute investigation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Luis MARTINEZ-GUARNEROS, Marc-Edwin Sebastian RIGAUD, Brian R. BEZANSON, William A. RICKARD, Timothy Bryan INNES, Tim Allen PRIEBE, Eric Vincent LITTLE
  • Patent number: 10269332
    Abstract: A tuner for a stringed instrument, comprising: a housing mounted to the stringed instrument; a knob coupled to one end of the housing; a post coupled to the other end of the housing, the knob and the post positioned on a rotation axis, the post for receiving a string and the knob for causing rotation of the post; a gear assembly mounted in the housing between the knob and the post, the gear assembly having a first gear for rotating about the rotation axis and a second gear mounted on a gear body, the second gear having a center axis offset from the rotation axis, the first gear being meshed with the second gear, the gear body including a plurality of pins, being opposed to the second gear, for positioning in a respective plurality of cavities in the housing; wherein the second gear being coupled to the knob and the first gear being coupled to the post.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Inventor: William A. Rickard
  • Publication number: 20090319699
    Abstract: Illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method for minimizing loss of access to a storage system during a concurrent controller code load in a redundant dual controller subsystem. The computer implemented method receives a request for a controller code load, verifies all required hosts are connected with the second controller to form a first verification, and responsive to the first verification indicating that all required hosts are connected with the second controller, varies a first controller offline. The controller code load is performed in the first controller, and the first controller is varied back online. The computer implemented method performs a verification that all required hosts are connected with the first controller to form a second verification, and responsive to the second verification indicating that all required hosts are connected with the first controller, varies the second controller offline, and performs the controller code load in the second controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2008
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Christopher Canto, Thomas William Rickard
  • Patent number: 4869096
    Abstract: A water bath apparatus for testing pressurized cans of aerosol products in groups for leakers. A spokeless horizontal cylinder is supported and rotatable on trunnions in a tank partly filled with water. The cylinder has end rings which ride on sets of trunnions mounted on opposing walls on the tank interior. Uniformly spaced elongated clamps structurally interconnect the end rings to form the sidewall of the cylinder. Each clamp after loading carries a group of cans down into the water and then upwardly out of the water for unloading. A horizontal tube extends through the tank and through the spokeless interior of the cylinder. An elongated conveyor extends through the top of the tube and the interior of the cylinder. Each clamp is normally closed so as to retain a group of cans to be tested.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1989
    Assignee: The Kartridg Pak Co.
    Inventors: William A. Rickard, William G. Andrews
  • Patent number: 4018499
    Abstract: The contact is stamped from sheet metal and comprises a plate with a wire receiving slot opening into an edge of the plate between two arms and an integral core penetrating lance protruding between the arms into the slot and towards the slot opening, the arms having portions extending laterally towards each other adjacent the opening to define a wire-receiving mouth of restricted size which portions are formed with opposed insulation severing edges facing generally away from the lance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1977
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventor: David William Rickards