Patents by Inventor William Hockey

William Hockey 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: 20210288956
    Abstract: A permissions management system is disclosed for enabling a user to securely authorize a third-party system to access user account data and initiate transactions related to a user account, without disclosing to the third-party system account credentials. The system enables the user to also securely de-authorize the third-party system. For example, records may be automatically generated that securely store account information, including one or more permissions related to the account and/or the third-party. A token associated with a record may be shared with the third-party system, but neither the record itself, nor the user account credentials, may be shared with the third-party. Accordingly, the third-party may request user account data and/or initiate transactions by providing the token, but does not itself know, e.g., the user account credentials. Further, the user may set various permissions related to the token, and may also revoke the token (e.g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: William Hockey, Michael Kelly
  • Patent number: 11120158
    Abstract: A system and method for secure permissioning of access to user accounts, including secure distribution of aggregated user account data can include generating a financial report based on account information associated with one or more user accounts; receiving a financial report request for the financial report of the user account, wherein the financial report request is identified as being received from a third-party system; generating an audit report token associated with the financial report; sharing the audit token with the first third-party system in response to the financial report request; and providing the first third-party system account access to the financial report through the report token, where the audit report token can be shared with a second third-party system and provided by the second third-party system in order to confirm authorization to the report and integrity of the report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Inventors: William Hockey, Joy Zheng, Baker Shogry, Michael Kelly
  • Publication number: 20210281558
    Abstract: A permissions management system is disclosed for enabling a user to securely authorize a third-party system to access user account data and initiate transactions related to a user account, without disclosing to the third-party system account credentials. The system enables the user to also securely de-authorize the third-party system. For example, records may be automatically generated that securely store account information, including one or more permissions related to the account and/or the third-party. A token associated with a record may be shared with the third-party system, but neither the record itself, nor the user account credentials, may be shared with the third-party. Accordingly, the third-party may request user account data and/or initiate transactions by providing the token, but does not itself know, e.g., the user account credentials. Further, the user may set various permissions related to the token, and may also revoke the token (e.g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: William Hockey, Michael Kelly
  • Publication number: 20210233162
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are disclosed for accessing accounts associated with a user and estimating a value of an attribute associated with the user based upon the retrieved account information. Transaction data associated with an account at an external user account system is received. The transactions are categorized into transaction groups. For each transaction group, a confidence value that the group is associated with the attribute is estimated, based at least in part upon a distribution of transaction amounts for the transactions of the group over a time period associated with the group. An attribute value is estimated for each group, based at least in part upon the transaction amounts of the transaction of the group. In addition a value of the attribute for a future time period may be predicted based upon the transaction groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: William Hockey, Sharon Rapoport
  • Patent number: 11050729
    Abstract: A permissions management system is disclosed for enabling a user to securely authorize a third-party system to access user account data and initiate transactions related to a user account, without disclosing to the third-party system account credentials. The system enables the user to also securely de-authorize the third-party system. For example, records may be automatically generated that securely store account information, including one or more permissions related to the account and/or the third-party. A token associated with a record may be shared with the third-party system, but neither the record itself, nor the user account credentials, may be shared with the third-party. Accordingly, the third-party may request user account data and/or initiate transactions by providing the token, but does not itself know, e.g., the user account credentials. Further, the user may set various permissions related to the token, and may also revoke the token (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Plaid Inc.
    Inventors: William Hockey, Michael Kelly
  • Patent number: 11030682
    Abstract: Systems and methods for programmatic access of external financial service systems. An application proxy instance is created that simulates an application of an external financial service system. A normalized account request is received for financial data of the external financial service system for a specified account. The normalized account request is provided by an external financial application system by using a financial data API of the financial platform system. Responsive to the normalized account request, communication is negotiated with the external financial service system by using the application proxy instance to access the requested financial data from the external financial service system by using a proprietary Application Programming Interface (API) of the external financial service system. The financial data is provided to the external financial application system as a response to the normalized account request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Plaid Inc.
    Inventors: William Hockey, Charles Li, Zach Perret
  • Patent number: 10984468
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are disclosed for accessing accounts associated with a user and estimating a value of an attribute associated with the user based upon the retrieved account information. Transaction data associated with an account at an external user account system is received. The transactions are categorized into transaction groups. For each transaction group, a confidence value that the group is associated with the attribute is estimated, based at least in part upon a distribution of transaction amounts for the transactions of the group over a time period associated with the group. An attribute value is estimated for each group, based at least in part upon the transaction amounts of the transaction of the group. In addition a value of the attribute for a future time period may be predicted based upon the transaction groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Plaid Inc.
    Inventors: William Hockey, Sharon Rapoport
  • Publication number: 20210081947
    Abstract: A system and method for linking to accounts using credential-less authentication that includes: within a first application context at an account-linking computing service: receiving a request to establish an account link, establishing the account link to a user account of an account service using user credentials, and receiving user identifying information of the first application context and storing the user identifying information in association with the account link; and within a second application context at the account-linking computing service: receiving user identifying information of the second application context, searching and identifying a candidate account link using the user identifying information of the second application context, verifying eligibility for access to the account link, and permitting access to the account link upon successful verification of eligibility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: William Hockey, Nick Agin, Baker Shogry, Samir Naik, Jonathan Chao
  • Patent number: 10904239
    Abstract: A permissions management system is disclosed for enabling a user to securely authorize a third-party system to access user account data and initiate transactions related to a user account, without disclosing to the third-party system account credentials. The system enables the user to also securely de-authorize the third-party system. For example, records may be automatically generated that securely store account information, including one or more permissions related to the account and/or the third-party. A token associated with a record may be shared with the third-party system, but neither the record itself, nor the user account credentials, may be shared with the third-party. Accordingly, the third-party may request user account data and/or initiate transactions by providing the token, but does not itself know, e.g., the user account credentials. Further, the user may set various permissions related to the token, and may also revoke the token (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Plaid Inc.
    Inventors: William Hockey, Michael Kelly
  • Patent number: 10726491
    Abstract: A user account evaluation system is disclosed for evaluating risk associated with a user account. The system may obtain user account data associated with many user accounts, select a statistically significant subset of the user accounts, and then process (e.g., to determine types of the user accounts, etc.) and analyze the subset of user accounts to generate a plurality of evaluation models. When a new user account is accessed by the system, user account data may be obtained for the new user account, and the new user account may be evaluated based on the plurality of evaluation models. Accordingly, a plurality of evaluation parameter scores may be generated for the new user account, each of which may indicate an amount of risk associated with the user account. Some embodiments of the present disclosure may include machine learning and/or artificial intelligence methods to improve evaluation of the user accounts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Plaid Inc.
    Inventors: William Hockey, Sharon Rapoport
  • Patent number: 10614463
    Abstract: Systems and methods for programmatic access of a financial institution system. A normalized API request provided by an application system specifies user information corresponding to at least one account endpoint of an external financial institution system. Responsive to the request, at least one application proxy instance associated with the normalized API request is used to collect transaction information from a corresponding financial institution system by providing the financial institution system with a proprietary API request that specifies at least account credentials associated with the user information. The transaction information is included in at least one proprietary API response provided by the financial institution system. A normalized API response is generated based on the collected transaction information and provided to the application system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Plaid Inc.
    Inventors: William Hockey, Zach Perret, Charles Li
  • Publication number: 20200106765
    Abstract: A permissions management system is disclosed for enabling a user to securely authorize a third-party system to access user account data and initiate transactions related to a user account, without disclosing to the third-party system account credentials. The system enables the user to also securely de-authorize the third-party system. For example, records may be automatically generated that securely store account information, including one or more permissions related to the account and/or the third-party. A token associated with a record may be shared with the third-party system, but neither the record itself, nor the user account credentials, may be shared with the third-party. Accordingly, the third-party may request user account data and/or initiate transactions by providing the token, but does not itself know, e.g., the user account credentials. Further, the user may set various permissions related to the token, and may also revoke the token (e.g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: William Hockey, Michael Kelly
  • Publication number: 20200106764
    Abstract: A permissions management system is disclosed for enabling a user to securely authorize a third-party system to access user account data and initiate transactions related to a user account, without disclosing to the third-party system account credentials. The system enables the user to also securely de-authorize the third-party system. For example, records may be automatically generated that securely store account information, including one or more permissions related to the account and/or the third-party. A token associated with a record may be shared with the third-party system, but neither the record itself, nor the user account credentials, may be shared with the third-party. Accordingly, the third-party may request user account data and/or initiate transactions by providing the token, but does not itself know, e.g., the user account credentials. Further, the user may set various permissions related to the token, and may also revoke the token (e.g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: William Hockey, Michael Kelly
  • Patent number: 10530761
    Abstract: A permissions management system is disclosed for enabling a user to securely authorize a third-party system to access user account data and initiate transactions related to a user account, without disclosing to the third-party system account credentials. The system enables the user to also securely de-authorize the third-party system. For example, records may be automatically generated that securely store account information, including one or more permissions related to the account and/or the third-party. A token associated with a record may be shared with the third-party system, but neither the record itself, nor the user account credentials, may be shared with the third-party. Accordingly, the third-party may request user account data and/or initiate transactions by providing the token, but does not itself know, e.g., the user account credentials. Further, the user may set various permissions related to the token, and may also revoke the token (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Plaid Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: William Hockey, Michael Kelly
  • Patent number: 10523653
    Abstract: A permissions management system is disclosed for enabling a user to securely authorize a third-party system to access user account data and initiate transactions related to a user account, without disclosing to the third-party system account credentials. The system enables the user to also securely de-authorize the third-party system. For example, records may be automatically generated that securely store account information, including one or more permissions related to the account and/or the third-party. A token associated with a record may be shared with the third-party system, but neither the record itself, nor the user account credentials, may be shared with the third-party. Accordingly, the third-party may request user account data and/or initiate transactions by providing the token, but does not itself know, e.g., the user account credentials. Further, the user may set various permissions related to the token, and may also revoke the token (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Plaid Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: William Hockey, Michael Kelly
  • Publication number: 20190318122
    Abstract: A system and method for secure permissioning of access to user accounts, including secure distribution of aggregated user account data can include generating a financial report based on account information associated with one or more user accounts; receiving a financial report request for the financial report of the user account, wherein the financial report request is identified as being received from a third-party system; generating an audit report token associated with the financial report; sharing the audit token with the first third-party system in response to the financial report request; and providing the first third-party system account access to the financial report through the report token, where the audit report token can be shared with a second third-party system and provided by the second third-party system in order to confirm authorization to the report and integrity of the report.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: William Hockey, Joy Zheng, Baker Shogry, Michael Kelly
  • Publication number: 20190182233
    Abstract: A permissions management system is disclosed for enabling a user to securely authorize a third-party system to access user account data and initiate transactions related to a user account, without disclosing to the third-party system account credentials. The system enables the user to also securely de-authorize the third-party system. For example, records may be automatically generated that securely store account information, including one or more permissions related to the account and/or the third-party. A token associated with a record may be shared with the third-party system, but neither the record itself, nor the user account credentials, may be shared with the third-party. Accordingly, the third-party may request user account data and/or initiate transactions by providing the token, but does not itself know, e.g., the user account credentials. Further, the user may set various permissions related to the token, and may also revoke the token (e.g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: William Hockey, Michael Kelly
  • Patent number: 10319029
    Abstract: Systems and methods for programmatic access of external financial service systems. An application proxy instance is created that simulates an application of an external financial service system. A normalized account request is received for financial data of the external financial service system for a specified account. The normalized account request is provided by an external financial application system by using a financial data API of the financial platform system. Responsive to the normalized account request, communication is negotiated with the external financial service system by using the application proxy instance to access the requested financial data from the external financial service system by using a proprietary Application Programming Interface (API) of the external financial service system. The financial data is provided to the external financial application system as a response to the normalized account request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Plaid Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: William Hockey, Charles Li, Zach Perret
  • Publication number: 20190014101
    Abstract: A permissions management system is disclosed for enabling a user to securely authorize a third-party system to access user account data and initiate transactions related to a user account, without disclosing to the third-party system account credentials. The system enables the user to also securely de-authorize the third-party system. For example, records may be automatically generated that securely store account information, including one or more permissions related to the account and/or the third-party. A token associated with a record may be shared with the third-party system, but neither the record itself, nor the user account credentials, may be shared with the third-party. Accordingly, the third-party may request user account data and/or initiate transactions by providing the token, but does not itself know, e.g., the user account credentials. Further, the user may set various permissions related to the token, and may also revoke the token (e.g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventors: William Hockey, Michael Kelly
  • Patent number: 10104059
    Abstract: A permissions management system is disclosed for enabling a user to securely authorize a third-party system to access user account data and initiate transactions related to a user account, without disclosing to the third-party system account credentials. The system enables the user to also securely de-authorize the third-party system. For example, records may be automatically generated that securely store account information, including one or more permissions related to the account and/or the third-party. A token associated with a record may be shared with the third-party system, but neither the record itself, nor the user account credentials, may be shared with the third-party. Accordingly, the third-party may request user account data and/or initiate transactions by providing the token, but does not itself know, e.g., the user account credentials. Further, the user may set various permissions related to the token, and may also revoke the token (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: PLAID TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: William Hockey, Michael Kelly