Patent Issued for Efficient propagation of user data across disparate systems (USPTO 11514415): United Services Automobile Association

2022 DEC 15 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- A patent by the inventors Naelon, Ashley (San Antonio, TX, US), filed on May 19, 2020, was published online on November 29, 2022, according to news reporting originating from Alexandria, Virginia, by NewsRx correspondents.

Patent number 11514415 is assigned to United Services Automobile Association (San Antonio, Texas, United States).

The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background information supplied by the inventors: “A typical individual in the United States changes their residence between 11 and 12 times during their lifetime. People move for a large number of reasons including economic opportunities, health status, social relationships, and exposure to crime and disorder. While moving is normally a relatively happy event, moving requires the coordination of several different activities (for example, a new residence must be obtained, possessions must be packed, friends and businesses must be notified, mortgages and loans must be secured, schools must be found, friends are left behind).”

In addition to the background information obtained for this patent, NewsRx journalists also obtained the inventors’ summary information for this patent: “This specification describes technologies relating to changing user data.

“In general, one innovative aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include the actions of receiving from a user device, a request to change an address with a financial institution. The methods include the actions of accessing an electronic bill pay system of the financial institution. The methods include the actions of identifying an external party to notify of the change of address based on data in an electronic bill pay system. The methods also include the actions of notifying the external party of the change of address, wherein the external party is independent of the financial institution

“The foregoing and other embodiments can each optionally include one or more of the following features, alone or in combination.

“In aspect 2 according to aspect 1, the methods can include the actions of accessing at least one financial statement associated with at least one payee in the bill pay system, and identifying a second external party to notify of the change of address based on data in the at least one financial statement.

“In aspect 3 according to any of aspects 1 and 2, the at least one financial statement may be a credit card statement.”

The claims supplied by the inventors are:

“1. A computer-implemented method comprising: identifying, by a computer system, one or more first external parties, wherein the identifying is in response to receiving a request from a user device to modify an address with a first financial institution associated with the user, wherein the one or more first external parties are to receive a notification of the modification of address or a cancellation notice based on first data obtained from a first database of the first financial institution; obtaining, by the computer system, secure access to a second financial institution associated with the user using one or more credentials received from the user, the second financial institution being independent of the first financial institution; identifying, by the computer system, one or more second external parties, wherein the identifying is based on second data obtained from a second database of the second financial institution, wherein the one or more second external parties are to receive a notification of the modification of address or a cancellation notice, the identifying comprising: generating a list of known parties the user may wish to notify of the modification of address; retrieving, from memory, data records representing one or more financial statements associated with a financial account that the user has with the second financial institution; analyzing the data records representing the one or more financial statements to identify one or more charging parties that have charged the financial account of the user; and comparing the one or more charging parties with the list of known parties to identify the one or more second external parties; causing the user interface of the user device to display a single user interface comprising a plurality of user-selectable icons including: a first user-selectable icon, selection of which instructs the computer system to transmit a notification of the modification of address to one or more first external parties associated with one or more first accounts or to the one or more second external parties associated with the one or more first accounts for which the user wants to change the address, and a second user-selectable icon, selection of which instructs the computer system to transmit a cancellation notice to one or more first external parties associated with one or more second accounts or to the one or more second external parties associated with the one or more second accounts for which the user wants to cancel service; wherein the first user-selectable icon is juxtaposed to the second user-selectable icon in the user interface; and in response to receiving the user’s selections of the first and second user-selectable icons, automatically accessing and reading, from a hardware storage device, one or more data structures representing the one or more first accounts, modifying, by the computer system using scripting, one or more field values of the one or more data structures in accordance with the change of address, writing, to the hardware storage device, the one or more data structures with the one or more modified field values, automatically sending, via a first application programming interface (API), the notification of the change of address to one or more external parties associated with the one or more first accounts, the first API being established between the computer system and the one or more external parties associated with the one or more first accounts; and automatically sending, via a second application programming interface (API), the cancellation notice to one or more external parties associated with the one or more second accounts, the second API being established between the computer system and the one or more external parties associated with the one or more second accounts.

“2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of user-selectable icons allow the user to indicate, with respect to at least one of the one or more first external parties or one or more second external parties, which service should be cancelled at an old address and established at a new address.

“3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the request is received through the user interface, the user interface comprising one or more fields that allow a user to specify a new address corresponding to the modification of address and an effective date corresponding to the modification of address.

“4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising accessing an electronic bill pay system of the first financial institution to obtain the first data, wherein the first data represents recipients of a payment from the electronic bill pay system.

“5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the second data represents one or more financial statements of the user, the one or more financial statements being associated with one or more financial accounts of the user at the second financial institution.

“6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, wherein the one or more financial accounts comprises one or more of: a checking account or a credit card account.

“7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the one or more credentials of the user is provided by the user.

“8. A non-transitory computer storage medium encoded with computer program instructions that when executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising: identifying, by a computer system, one or more first external parties, wherein the identifying is in response to receiving a request from a user device to modify an address with a first financial institution associated with the user, wherein the one or more first external parties are to receive a notification of the modification of address or a cancellation notice based on first data obtained from a first database of the first financial institution; obtaining, by the computer system, secure access to a second financial institution associated with the user using one or more credentials received from the user, the second financial institution being independent of the first financial institution; identifying, by the computer system, one or more second external parties, wherein the identifying is based on second data obtained from a second database of the second financial institution, wherein the one or more second external parties are to receive a notification of the modification of address or a cancellation notice, the identifying comprising: generating a list of known parties the user may wish to notify of the modification of address; retrieving, from memory, data records representing one or more financial statements associated with a financial account that the user has with the second financial institution; analyzing the data records representing the one or more financial statements to identify one or more charging parties that have charged the financial account of the user; and comparing the one or more charging parties with the list of known parties to identify the one or more second external parties; causing the user interface of the user device to display a single user interface comprising a plurality of user-selectable icons including: a first user-selectable icon, selection of which instructs the computer system to transmit a notification of the modification of address to one or more first external parties associated with one or more first accounts or to the one or more second external parties associated with the one or more first accounts for which the user wants to change the address, and a second user-selectable icon, selection of which instructs the computer system to transmit a cancellation notice to one or more first external parties associated with one or more second accounts or to the one or more second external parties associated with the one or more second accounts for which the user wants to cancel service; wherein the first user-selectable icon is juxtaposed to the second user-selectable icon in the user interface; and in response to receiving the user’s selections of the first and second user-selectable icons, automatically accessing and reading, from a hardware storage device, one or more data structures representing the one or more first accounts, modifying, by the computer system using scripting, one or more field values of the one or more data structures in accordance with the change of address, writing, to the hardware storage device, the one or more data structures with the one or more modified field values, automatically sending, via a first application programming interface (API), the notification of the change of address to one or more external parties associated with the one or more first accounts, the first API being established between the computer system and the one or more external parties associated with the one or more first accounts; and automatically sending, via a second application programming interface (API), the cancellation notice to one or more external parties associated with the one or more second accounts, the second API being established between the computer system and the one or more external parties associated with the one or more second accounts.

“9. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 8, wherein the plurality of user-selectable icons allow the user to indicate, with respect to at least one of the one or more first external parties or one or more second external parties, which service should be cancelled at an old address and established at a new address.

“10. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 8, wherein the request is received through the user interface, the user interface comprising one or more fields that allow a user to specify a new address corresponding to the modification of address and an effective date corresponding to the modification of address.”

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URL and more information on this patent, see: Naelon, Ashley. Efficient propagation of user data across disparate systems. U.S. Patent Number 11514415, filed May 19, 2020, and published online on November 29, 2022. Patent URL (for desktop use only): https://ppubs.uspto.gov/pubwebapp/external.html?q=(11514415)&db=USPAT&type=ids

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