Finance (e.g., Banking, Investment Or Credit) Patents (Class 705/35)
  • Patent number: 10733683
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to systems and methods of facilitating the coordination of benefits for a plurality of health plans that individually have at least some responsibility to pay for healthcare services received by members covered by more than one health plan. The coordination of benefits may be facilitated before payments are made, streamlining the payment process. The system may correlate health plan information received from various health plans and determine that a particular member is covered by more than one health plan based on the correlated health plan information. The system may generate, update, and provide a COB registry that includes coverage information related to other health plans that cover the particular member. The COB registry may include primacy information used to identify health plans having primary, secondary, and/or other responsibility to pay for a given healthcare service for a member covered by the identified health plans.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare, Inc.
    Inventors: Akshay Kapur, Atul Pathiyal
  • Patent number: 10732810
    Abstract: Various systems and methods are provided for accessing and traversing one or more complex data structures and generating a functional user interface that can enable non-technical users to quickly and dynamically generate detailed reports (including tables, charts, and/or the like) of complex data including time varying attributes and time-series data. The user interfaces are interactive such that a user may make selections, provide inputs, and/or manipulate outputs. In response to various user inputs, the system automatically calculates applicable time intervals, accesses and traverses complex data structures (including, for example, a mathematical graph having nodes and edges), calculates complex data based on the traversals and the calculated time intervals, displays the calculated complex data to the user, and/or enters the calculated complex data into the tables, charts, and/or the like. The user interfaces may be automatically updated based on a context selected by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Addepar, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin J. Cohen, Michael Lee Greenbaum, Ian Gillis
  • Patent number: 10728294
    Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for providing dynamic and interactive content in an online chat session. When it is determined that an online chat session is established between two devices, an interactive chat engine may begin monitoring chat messages exchanged between the devices to derive a context for the online chat session. A particular workflow from multiple workflows may be selected and initiated for the online chat session based on the derived context. The interactive chat engine may generate a chat object for presenting dynamic and interactive content to the user related to the workflow within the online chat session. The chat object may be inserted into the chat flow of the online chat session. Once inserted the chat object may generate and subsequently modify presentations for the devices participating in the online chat session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Ramakrishna Rosanuru, Ragunath Jayabalakrishnan
  • Patent number: 10728036
    Abstract: In processing a transaction, a data storage system of a processing system stores and updates a progression created for the transaction that represents a timeline of events that occurred related to the transaction. A progression for a transaction that is processed across multiple processing systems is organized as a chronological chain of segments. Each segment in the progression includes records for events processed by a given processing system prior to the transaction reaching an intermediate state or a terminal state. When the transaction reaches a terminal state, the segmented progression includes records associated with all of the events that occurred in relation to the transaction across multiple processing systems. A segment in the progression is cryptographically linked to a previous segment in the progression using a linking object that includes a transaction signature of the last record stored in the previous segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: PEERNOVA, INC.
    Inventors: Gangesh Kumar Ganesan, Benedicto de Souza Franco, Jr., Alexei Kozlenok
  • 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: 10726504
    Abstract: A system and method allows users to share watchlists with other users of a group such as that established on a social network server, and receives and displays other related information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth M. Bravmann, Sandeep Reddy Chelamacherla Anand, Charles E. Gotlieb
  • Patent number: 10728107
    Abstract: Embodiments can provide centralized management of cloud service providers for one or more customers, including adding, changing or deleting end user data for accessing various cloud services from a common user interface. The common user interface can facilitate configuring user settings for a particular user for different cloud services through a user profile for the particular user. The user profile can be constructed from a corresponding user record stored in a databased. The user record can be updated by obtaining user information from the different cloud services. The obtained user information can be matched to the user record by using one or more criteria. In some embodiments, different criteria can be used for matching information from different cloud services to the user record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: SKYKICK, INC.
    Inventors: John Dennis, Doug Handler, Evan Richman, Todd Schwartz, Bradley Younge, Matthew Steven Hintzke, Corey Brent Caldwell, Robert William Davis
  • Patent number: 10726413
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for providing an account token to an external entity during the lifecycle of a payment transaction. In some embodiments, an external entity may be a merchant computer requesting authorization of a payment message. In other embodiments, the external entity may be a support computer providing a payment processing network or a merchant support functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Gourab Basu, Michael Mori, Ross Sakata, Steven Cracknell, Millie Yee, Mark Carlson, Patrick Stan, Surendra Keshan, Edward Katzin
  • Patent number: 10728345
    Abstract: Service management incident data stored in a normalized format on a database is accessed from a hosted client instance responsive a REST API call by a client application on a mobile device in an online database session in an online mode between the hosted client instance and the client application. Responsive to an indication of the client application operating in offline mode, a batch request is executed on the database to generate a payload corresponding to a subset of the data, the payload having a denormalized format that is optimized for transmission to the mobile device and caching onto a local database on the mobile device for access in offline mode. Data from the cached subset of data stored on the local database is accessible by the mobile device in a simulated database session in the offline mode between the client application and the local database via a simulation API.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: William Lisac, Daniel Cascais, Michael Borowiec
  • Patent number: 10726424
    Abstract: Systems and methods involving computer-based processing for proactively reducing false-positive fraud detection incidents are disclosed. In one embodiment, an exemplary computer-implemented method may comprise: detecting when a subject online transaction matches criteria indicating it is unusual; operating a browser extension application to obtain UI image data and purchase details of an item purchased by a user during the unusual online transaction; evaluating historical transactions of the user to identify a potentially fraudulent online transaction; and executing a false-positive detection routine to determine if the potentially fraudulent online transaction is valid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Bryant Yee, George Bergeron, Mykhaylo Bulgakov
  • Patent number: 10720150
    Abstract: According to certain embodiments, a system comprises interface circuitry and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry receives an input via the interface circuitry. The input is based on an utterance of a user, and the processing circuitry uses a probabilistic engine to determine one or more candidate intents associated with the utterance. The processing circuitry determines a number of the one or more candidate intents that exceed a threshold. If the number of candidate intents that exceed the threshold does not equal one, the processing circuitry uses a deterministic engine to compare the input to a set of regular expression patterns. If the input matches one of the regular expression patterns, the processing circuitry uses the matching regular expression pattern to determine the intent of the utterance. The interface circuitry communicates the intent of the utterance as an output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Donatus Asumu, Bhargav Aditya Ayyagari
  • Patent number: 10721321
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method comprises: receiving update data from a data source, the update data being part of a data feed from the data source; in response to receiving the update data from the data source, storing the update data in a data buffer; transmitting the update data from the data buffer to a data transformer, the data transformer being configured to transform the update data and to transmit the transformed update data to an online service, the update data being continued to be stored in the data buffer subsequent to the transmitting of the update data to the data transformer; receiving a request for retransmission of the update data from the data buffer to the data transformer, and in response to the request for retransmission, retransmitting the update data from the data buffer to the data transformer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Chernyak, Diego Buthay, Tianshi Zhu
  • Patent number: 10719148
    Abstract: The disclosure herein describes coupling a stylus and a computing device. Based on a tip of a stylus being brought proximate to a display of a computing device configured to communicate in accordance with a wireless protocol, the computing device is configured to receive a stylus wireless protocol identifier and transmit a wireless protocol identifier of the computing device and one or more security keys to the stylus via a communication channel in response, whereby the stylus and computing device are coupled. Based on receiving a signal associated with user input from the coupled stylus using the wireless protocol, the computing device performs an operation based on the signal. The described “loose coupling” enables streamlined use of styluses with compatible computing devices without requiring full pairing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jay Gilbert, Frank Gorgenyi, Arie Yehuda Gur, Maxim Kudryavtsev, Alain L. Michaud, Rahul Ramadas, Uri Ron, Daryl M. Wilson
  • Patent number: 10719877
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for providing an exchange traded fund comprising the steps of: providing a unit investment trust including a plurality of ownership units, wherein the unit investment trust includes a portfolio of securities composed in accordance with an index; distributing the ownership units of the unit investment trust to one or more investors; providing an exchange traded fund including a plurality of ownership shares; upon the occurrence of a conversion event, tendering the portfolio of securities to the exchange traded fund in return for an in-kind distribution of the plurality of ownership shares; and distributing the plurality of ownership shares to the one or more investors according to a predetermined ratio of ownership units to ownership shares.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: ACESHARES LLC
    Inventor: John Phillips
  • Patent number: 10719838
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for generating event recommendations. Embodiments of the disclosure identify an event associated with a location and an artist. An artist recommendation corresponding to the artist is generated for users based upon the media consumption of the users. An event recommendation corresponding to the event is generated for users near the location. A level of demand for the event is determined based upon a conversion rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Toby Ray Latin-Stoermer, Scott K. Meaker, Scott Durham, Stephen C. Mack, Ralph Cameron Harvey, Erin O. Anderson
  • Patent number: 10719883
    Abstract: Pursuant to some embodiments, systems, methods, apparatus and computer program code for creating and administering virtual affinity groups are provided. Pursuant to some embodiments, a computer implemented processing method is provided which includes receiving, at an insurance processing platform, information identifying at least a first characteristic of a virtual affinity group, receiving, at the insurance processing platform, information identifying at least a first feature of the virtual affinity group and at least a first insurance related benefit to be offered to the virtual affinity group, automatically identifying at least a first individual matching the at least first characteristic, and communicating to the at least first individual information allowing the at least first individual to participate in the virtual affinity group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Hartford Fire Insurance Company
    Inventors: Ryan Owen Denning, Mushter Munib Moin, Deborah L. Perschy
  • Patent number: 10721332
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a system. In operation, the system generates a first interest for a first manifest which indicates a first phase of a migration of a data model and indicates a first plurality of resources with corresponding names; in response to receiving the first manifest, transmits, based on the corresponding names of the first plurality of resources, a first plurality of interests for the first plurality of resources; receives a second manifest which indicates a second phase of the migration and indicates a second plurality of resources with corresponding names; transmits, based on the corresponding names of the second plurality of resources, a second plurality of interests for the second plurality of resources; and starts the data model on the system based on content objects retrieved in response to the first and second plurality of interests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Marc E. Mosko
  • Patent number: 10719874
    Abstract: The disclosed systems and methods relate to allowing trading of over the counter (“OTC”) foreign exchange (“FX”) contracts on a centralized matching and clearing mechanism, such as that of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange's (“CME”'s) futures exchange system (the “Exchange”). The disclosed systems and methods allow for anonymous transactions, centralized clearing, efficient settlement and the provision of risk management/credit screening mechanisms to lower risk, reduce transaction costs and improve the liquidity in the FX market place. In particular, the disclosed embodiments increase speed of execution facilitating growing demand for algorithmic trading, increased price transparency, lower cost of trading, customer to customer trading, and automated asset allocations, recurring trades as well as clearing and settlement efficiencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Andrew Bauerschmidt, Ari L. Studnitzer, William J. Albert, Lori Flemm, Paul J. Callaway, James W. Farrell, A. Shanthi Thiruthuvadoss
  • Patent number: 10721350
    Abstract: An example method is described. The method includes receiving, by a computing system, data indicative of a call into an interactive voice response (IVR) system from a user device and determining, by the computing system and based on the data, a set of actions performed by the user device within the IVR system and a corresponding set of results performed by the IVR system during the call. Additionally, the method includes converting, by the computing system, the set of actions and the corresponding set of results into a sequence of code pairs using a dictionary established based on training data, determining, by the computing system, an activity pattern during the call based on the sequence of code pairs; and calculating, by the computing system, a probability that the call is fraudulent based on the activity pattern during the call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Nick A. Maiorana, Judy Cantor, Kevin R. Cieslak, David Gorlesky, Jeremy Ernst
  • Patent number: 10713639
    Abstract: Disclosed are exemplary embodiments of systems and methods for use in extending credit services to prepaid payment accounts, based on anticipated load transaction thereto. In an exemplary embodiment, a method generally includes receiving an advance request, from a user, for a prepaid account. The prepaid account is associated with anticipated load transactions associated with the user to which the prepaid account is associated. The advance request also includes an advance amount. The exemplary method also includes determining whether to approve the advance request based on the anticipated load transaction and at least one metric associated with user, and causing the prepaid account to reflect the advance amount when the advance request is approved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Alan Gorenstein
  • Patent number: 10713716
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for generating a search query based on received user data to perform an internet search using the search query. The systems and methods further extract data from internet search results from the internet search using the search query, generate internet search income records from the extracted data, generate income records from one or more databases comprising income records, and combine the internet search income records and the generated income records from the one or more databases to form combined income record results. The systems and methods further identify candidate income records from the combined income record results, extract features from each candidate income record for generating an income prediction, and generate the income prediction using a machine learning model to predict an income, based on the extracted features from the candidate income records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Airbnb, Inc.
    Inventors: Chirag Mahapatra, Kedar Bellare
  • Patent number: 10715612
    Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying users according to their activity are disclosed. The identification of a user includes accessing a user activity log having a plurality of identifiers and corresponding activity information for each identifier, determining identifiers having correlating activity information, and assigning identifiers having correlating activity information to a common user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Oath Inc.
    Inventors: Liang Wang, Zhen Xia, Datong Chen, Musen Wen
  • Patent number: 10715458
    Abstract: User identities can managed at an organization level, instead of across multiple individual resource accounts. In a resource provider environment, access to various resources and services may require users to have identities with specific resource accounts. Users can instead be associated with organization accounts, or virtual accounts that are not associated with specific resources or services. The organization accounts are attached at the appropriate location(s) in an organizational hierarchy. A user having an organization account can project the identity in any sub-account in the organization hierarchy. This can include any lower-level resource account, or can child accounts under a relevant branch of the hierarchy. A user can validate against the organization account, and receive access to the relevant service or resources using the identity projected in the corresponding resource account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Conor Patrick Cahill, Jasmeet Chhabra, Daniel Stephen Popick
  • Patent number: 10713725
    Abstract: Methods and systems for generating a diversification index for a portfolio are disclosed herein. A plurality of assets within the portfolio are identified, each of the plurality of assets having a corresponding weight value and a corresponding utility value. An overall volatility value of the portfolio is identified. A diversification index is computed based on the overall volatility value and corresponding weight and volatility values of each of the plurality of assets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
    Inventors: Jonathan Allen Shelon, Hongtao Qiao, Ignacio J. Bustindui, Haoxin David Lu, Xinwei Song, Jason Chen
  • Patent number: 10706471
    Abstract: An electronic exchange platform configured to: receive respective list of approved Buyside participants for each of a plurality of marketmaking orders; receive a respective marketmaking order for a side of trades on the financial instrument from each of the plurality of Sellside participants; peg a price for the received marketmaking orders to a price relative to and multiple ticks behind a best price on the side in an order book; present market information to Buyside participants identifying marketmaking orders for which the Buyside participants are approved; receive a contra order from a Buyside participant that is approved to trade with a subset of the plurality of marketmaking orders, in which the contra order identifies preferred Sellside participants; distribute the contra order; and determine new best bid and offer in response to the distribution; and adjust remaining marketmaking offers to retain peg in response to determining new best bid or offer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: BGC PARTNERS, INC.
    Inventors: Howard W. Lutnick, Michael Sweeting, Shaun Lynn, Philip Norton, Rich Winter
  • Patent number: 10705890
    Abstract: A system including a non-transitory machine readable medium storing computer program instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the system to: obtain directed event parameters defining a directed event, determine a plurality of secondary events and an occurrence sequence for the plurality of secondary events based on a plurality of event rules, issue one or more commands to trigger execution of such plurality of secondary events, monitor a completion status of the plurality of secondary events based on information obtained from the plurality of servers associated with the plurality of fund sources, and/or generate an interactive map providing a visual representation of a funding path, the funding path comprising the plurality of secondary events, the occurrence sequence for the plurality of secondary events, and a completion status of the plurality of secondary events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: ATALAYA CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LP
    Inventors: Ben Spector, Drew Phillips
  • Patent number: 10706420
    Abstract: A method for customized authentication of a subaccount includes: storing an account profile, wherein the account profile includes a structured data set related to a transaction account including a plurality of subaccounts, each subaccount including an associated account number, authentication rules, and authentication values; receiving a transaction message related to a payment transaction, wherein the transaction message includes a transaction account number and authentication data; identifying a specific subaccount in the account profile where the included associated account number corresponds to the transaction account number; and authenticating the authentication data based on the authentication rules and the authentication values included in the identified specific subaccount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Sean Kirch, Girish Pandey
  • Patent number: 10706963
    Abstract: Systems and methods for an e-commerce health care marketplace are provided. In one embodiment, a method comprises, responsive to a query from a user, retrieving from a database a list of responses comprising one or more health care providers offering one or more health care services at a provider-supplied price; filtering the list of responses based on a geographic location included in the query; providing, for display, the filtered list of responses; receiving a payment from the user for a response selected from the filtered list of responses; automatically sending a notification of the payment to a provider associated with the selected response; and responsive to receiving an order fulfillment notification from the provider, automatically providing the payment to the provider. In this way, health care consumers may make informed purchasing decisions when shopping for health care services and health care providers may receive prompt payment for services delivered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Cambria Health Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Marcee Chmait, Christopher Coogan, Elizabeth Anne Berselli, Will Cooper
  • Patent number: 10706234
    Abstract: A constituent-centric neural architecture for reading comprehension is disclosed. One embodiment provides a method that performs reading comprehension comprising encoding individual constituents from a text passage using a chain of trees long short-term encoding, encodes question related to the text passage using a tree long short-term memory encoding, generates a question-aware representation for each constituent in the passage using a tree-guided attention mechanism, generates a plurality of candidate answers from the question-aware representation using hierarchical relations among constituents, and predicts an answer to the question in relation to the text passage using a feed-forward network. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Petuum Inc.
    Inventors: Pengtao Xie, Eric Xing
  • Patent number: 10706452
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for creating and updating vehicle listings using crowdsourced images. An exemplary embodiment of the disclosed systems and methods includes at least one processor and at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium containing instructions. The instructions, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to perform operations. The operations include communicating with a listing system to create a listing for a vehicle and receiving, from an identification application executing on a mobile device distinct from the listing system, an identifier for the vehicle and an image of the vehicle. The operations further include identifying the listing using the received identifier, determining one or more parameters associated with an image quality for the received image, and updating the listing for the vehicle to include the received image based on the determined one or more parameters for the received image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Avid Ghamsari, Staevan Duckworth, Geoffrey Dagley, Micah Price, Qiaochu Tang
  • Patent number: 10706369
    Abstract: Systems and methods for utilizing user-verified data for training confidence level models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: ABBYY Production LLC
    Inventors: Anna Pospelova, Elmira Rakhmatulina
  • Patent number: 10706415
    Abstract: A method includes establishing a first funds transfer account associated with a first device and a second funds transfer account with a second device, funding at least the first fund account, and selecting the second device as the recipient of a funds transfer from the first device. The method further includes sending a communications link request from the first device to the second device and receiving acceptance of the communications link request from the second device. The method then establishes a communications link between the first device and the second device, initiates a funds transfer from the first device to the second device, wherein the amount is designated at the first device, and verifies the funds transfer amount, the first funds transfer account, and the second funds transfer account. Then, the method transfers the amount to the second funds transfer account associated with second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: The Western Union Company
    Inventor: Kimberly Dunwoody
  • Patent number: 10708300
    Abstract: Techniques for detecting fraudulent account usage without accessing user content associated with user accounts are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a report indicating fraudulent account usage related to an account of the computing service and in response to the received report, disallowing access to any content items associated with the account without disabling access to the account. While access to the content items is disallowed, collecting usage data related to the account or the content items and developing a model representing an activity profile of accessing the account or the content items. The method further includes detecting additional fraudulent account usage based on the developed model without scanning content items in the additional accounts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: John Rodrigues
  • Patent number: 10699263
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for facilitating payments between users of the system such as person-to-person payments using a payment hotspot. A payment hotspot or payspot may be generated by a first user device of a first user to facilitate a transfer of funds between the first user and the second user. The payspot may be a virtual payment portal that allows secure payment between the users without either of the users having to provide identifying information to the other user. The payspot may be accessed by the second user based on the proximity of a second user device of the second user to the first user device or the first user may provide an identification code of the payspot to the second user. The second user may access the payspot by communicating with a payment server with the second user device, through the first user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventor: Magesh Babu Meignana Sundaram
  • Patent number: 10699342
    Abstract: An improved computing architecture for managed-account transactions is presented. In accordance with embodiments, responsive to receiving a request to purchase one or more units of an asset for an account of a client, a computing system may identify a customized rule for the account, the client, and/or the asset. Responsive to determining that the request meets each of one or more criteria specified by the customized rule, the computing system may, for each of the unit(s), instantiate, in an account object associated with the account and stored within a client object associated with the client and stored in a memory of the computing system, an object representing the unit and may store, in the memory, an indication of a price and time at which the unit was purchased and data associating the indication with the object representing the unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventor: Todd Simonds
  • Patent number: 10699338
    Abstract: Techniques for buy-side order matching in the trading of financial instruments using a centralized matching engine having one or more storage devices including rules and order parameters for a plurality of buy-side parties. The centralized matching engine includes one or more transmitters and receivers communicatively coupled to a network and one or more processors operatively coupled to the one or more storage devices and the one or more transmitters and receivers. At least one message sent over the network by a plurality of buy-side parties and is received by the central matching engine to set the rules or order parameters. At least one order of at least two of the plurality of buy-side parties is matched based on the rules and the order parameters. A message is transmitted over the network to a sell-side party indicating that trade negotiation can commence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Fidessa Trading UK Limited
    Inventors: Dave Pearson, Russell Thornton, Paul Nokes
  • Patent number: 10699336
    Abstract: A buy order is received with a limit price that is above a published best offer, and represented in the auction market. If the buy order is not immediately executed, it is quoted at a minimum variation better than a published best bid, and the price of the quoted buy order becomes the published best bid. Alternatively, a sell order is received with a limit price that is below a published best bid, and represented in the auction market. If the sell order is not immediately executed, it is quoted at a minimum variation better than a published best offer, and the price of the quoted sell order becomes the published best offer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: New York Stock Exchange LLC
    Inventors: Roger Burkhardt, Anne E. Allen, Robert J. McSweeney, Louis G. Pastina
  • Patent number: 10698968
    Abstract: There is provided an information providing apparatus including: an accumulating section sequentially accumulating profile information of a user, which is generated by newly collecting user-relevant information including an action history of the user; an acquiring section acquiring a search result in a case where information search according to a request of the user is performed by using current profile information in the accumulated profile information; and a control section determining an output mode on the basis of the accumulated profile information to perform control such that the acquired search result is output in the determined output mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Alpine Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 10694353
    Abstract: Updating web resources includes extracting web resources from an application to local files in response to an initial start-up of the application, downloading updates to the web resources to the local files from an external server; and running the application using contents from the local files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Workday, Inc.
    Inventors: Anton Aleksandrov, Amit Ben-Sheffer, Raanan Avidor, Yoav Bodor, Ishai Borovoy, Yaron Goldberg, Todd E. Kaplinger, Iddo Levin, Ran E. Magen, Ron Perry, Artem Spector
  • Patent number: 10692004
    Abstract: Detection systems, methods and computer program products comprising a non-transitory tangible storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method for anomaly detection, a detected anomaly being indicative of an undesirable event. A detection system comprises a computer and an anomaly detection engine executable by the computer, the anomaly detection engine configured to perform a method comprising receiving data comprising a plurality m of multidimensional data points (MDDPs), each data point having n features, constructing a dictionary D based on the received data, embedding dictionary D into a lower dimension embedded space and classifying, based in the lower dimension embedded space, a MDDP as an anomaly or as normal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: ThetaRay Ltd.
    Inventor: David Segev
  • Patent number: 10692143
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to implementation of a trading system, which may also be referred to as a trading system architecture, having improved performance which further assures transactional determinism under increasing processing transaction loads while providing improved trading opportunities, fault tolerance, low latency processing, high volume capacity, risk mitigation and market protections with minimal impact, as well as improved and equitable access to information and opportunities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.
    Inventors: Ari Studnitzer, Zachary Bonig, Ryan Eavy, Frank Kmiec
  • 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
  • Patent number: 10692155
    Abstract: A system, method and computer program product are disclosed for imposing budget control constraints on user financial resources, including allocating funds across a plurality of sub-accounts exclusively associated with categories, the categories associated with a type of expenditure. A predetermined spending threshold is set for each category and a credit card may be activated in response to a spending threshold exceeding a requested payment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: ProActive FinTech LLC
    Inventors: Ryan Clark, Richard Holden
  • Patent number: 10692141
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a multi-layer fraud identification and risk analysis system. For example, the system may receive a plurality of first scores associated with borrower users and a dealer user based at least in part upon output of the first ML model. The system may receive a request from a lender user device for a second score, where the dealer user and the lender user device are associated according to a correlative score. The plurality of applications and the correlative score may be used as input to the second ML model that quantifies the risk of the dealer user specifically to the lender user, based on attributes associated with the application data, dealer user, and/or lender user. Output from the second ML model may be provided to the lender user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: PointPredictive Inc.
    Inventors: Frank J. McKenna, Timothy J. Grace, Gregory Gancarz, Michael J. Kennedy
  • Patent number: 10692138
    Abstract: In an example, a computer-implemented method includes determining a set of permissions that specifies types of account data of one or more financial accounts to share with a third-party, the one or more financial accounts being associated with a user and held by a financial institution, and generating authorization data that authenticates the third-party and authorizes the third-party to access the types of account data specified by the set of permissions. The method also includes transmitting the authorization data to the third-party, receiving a request for authorization that includes the authorization data and a request for account data of the one or more financial accounts that conforms to the types of account data specified by the set of permissions, authorizing the third-party based on the authorization data, and transmitting the account data that conforms to the types of account data specified by the set of permissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Traci Nguyen, Lila Fakhraie, Anthony Burton, Alyce F. Thornton, Ravi Thota, Meghan E. Butler
  • Patent number: 10692062
    Abstract: A Self-Service (SS) management terminal receives real-time item exception images for exception items of a remote transaction being processed on a remote SS Terminal (SST). Image searching is performed on the exception images to automatically lookup item details for the exception items. The item details are automatically and remotely keyed into the remote transaction of the remote SST for the remote transaction to continue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Marvin Paraso Casagnap, Arsenio Jr. Lumabi Codilla, Julie Ann Lavares Lasala, Vanessa Mae Yasay Orog
  • Patent number: 10685342
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for rerouting funds, associated with transactions between consumers and merchants, to direct-pay accounts associated with creditors that provide loan and/or credit arrangements to the merchants. One exemplary method generally includes identifying, by a computing device, funds directed to a primary payment account associated with a merchant during settlement of at least one transaction for which funds are directed to the merchant. The computing device then routes a first portion of the funds to a direct-pay account associated with a creditor of the merchant, whereby the first portion of the funds is delivered to the direct-pay account in service of a debt between the creditor and the merchant, without the first portion of the funds being appended to the primary account associated with the merchant. The computing device then also routes a second portion of the funds to the primary account associated with the merchant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Rohit Chauhan
  • Patent number: 10684617
    Abstract: A method for monitoring an installation having a networked topology, wherein measured values characterizing a state of the installation at the measuring point in question are captured and transmitted to a control-center apparatus, which determines state values indicating a state of the installation. The state values are used to show the state of the installation and they are compared with state threshold values that bound an operating range of the installation. A graphical representation is produced only for those state values for which a past or imminent violation of the associated state threshold value is detected. A visual display of a network topology is displayed on a display. Location information indicating the position of the state value in question in the installation is associated with each of the state values, and each representation is displayed at the point corresponding to the position of the representation in the installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ulrike Bechstedt, Yulia Kralina, Hans-Theo Neisius, Axel Platz, Sonja Sander, Christoffer Wittmann
  • Patent number: 10685355
    Abstract: Method, device, and system of detecting a mule bank account, or a bank account used for terror funding or money laundering. A method includes: monitoring interactions of a user with a computing device during online access with a banking account; and based on the monitoring, determining that the online banking account is utilized as a mule bank account to illegally receive and transfer money. The method takes into account one or more indicators, such as, utilization of a remote access channel, utilization of a virtual machine or a proxy server, unique behavior across multiple different account, temporal correlation among operations, detection of a set of operations that follow a pre-defined mule account playbook, detection of multiple incoming fund transfers from multiple countries that are followed by a single outgoing fund transfer to a different country, and other suitable indicators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: BIOCATCH LTD.
    Inventors: Itai Novick, Avi Turgeman
  • Patent number: 10679285
    Abstract: Systems and methods of completing purchase transactions that include a loan are disclosed. A system includes an account database configured to retrievably store information relating to at least one account associated with at least one customer and a network logic configured to enable the system to exchange information over a network. The system further includes a transaction processing logic, which is configured receive a loan application, generate a plurality of loan terms for the loan application, receive a related transaction package, tender a purchase price according to the transaction package, and set up a corresponding loan in an account database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ashish B. Kurani, Nikolai Stroke