IT Methods for Management

Citations to U.S. patents by U.S. patents granted in 2021

Top 10   [Cited by Examiner | Cited by Applicant]

Related WIPO fields:[Computer technology | Digital communication | Control | Measurement | Telecommunications | Medical technology | Transport All WIPO fields

[Cited by Examiner | Cited by Applicant]
Most Cited by Examiners

  1. 27 6327578    Four-party credit/debit payment protocol
  Inventors: Mark H. Linehan

  2. 24 5892900    Systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection
  Inventors: Karl Ginter; Victor H. Shear; W. Olin Sibert; Francis J. Spahn; David M. Van Wie

  3. 17 5948040    Travel reservation information and planning system
  Inventors: David M. DeLorme; Keith Gray; T. Angus Ferguson

  3. 17 9911290    Wireless coded communication (WCC) devices for tracking retail interactions with goods and association to user accounts
  Inventors: Gary M. Zalewski; Albert S. Penilla

  5. 14 9760871    Event-triggered business-to-business electronic payment processing apparatuses, methods and systems
  Inventors: Stacy Pourfallah; Kaushik Subramanian

  6. 13 8200527    Method for prioritizing and presenting recommendations regarding organizaion's customer care capabilities
  Inventors: Cameron Thompson; Ryan Pellet; Devi Jaspal

  6. 13 8346578    Systems and methods for using unmanned aerial vehicles
  Inventors: John Chandler Hopkins, III; Michael Patrick Bueche, Jr.; Andre Rene Buentello; James P. Hillman; Bradly Jay Billman

  6. 13 8682802    Mobile payments using payment tokens
  Inventors: Ahamed A. Kannanari

  9. 12 8316237    System and method for secure three-party communications
  Inventors: David Paul Felsher; Robert H. Nagel; Steven M. Hoffberg

  10. 11 8311863    Utility high performance capability assessment
  Inventors: Stacy M. Kemp

  10. 11 8606512    Route risk mitigation
  Inventors: Jason Brian Bogovich; Julie A. Jordan

  10. 11 8799034    Automated accident detection, fault attribution, and claims processing
  Inventors: Jennifer A. Brandmaier; James Gillespie; Stephen Hughes; Daniel Koza; William Loo; Francis Lowry

[Cited by Examiner | Cited by Applicant]
Most Cited by Applicants

  1. 81 8380177    Mobile phone payment processing methods and systems
  Inventors: Kevin Laracey

  2. 80 7793851    Dynamic credit card with magnetic stripe and embedded encoder and methods for using the same to provide a copy-proof credit card
  Inventors: Jeffrey D. Mullen

  3. 78 5883810    Electronic online commerce card with transactionproxy number for online transactions
  Inventors: D. Chase Franklin; Daniel Rosen

  4. 77 6422462    Apparatus and methods for improved credit cards and credit card transactions
  Inventors: Morris E. Cohen

  4. 77 8074877    Systems and methods for programmable payment cards and devices with loyalty-based payment applications
  Inventors: Jeffrey D. Mullen; Philip W. Yen

  6. 75 7584153    Financial transactions with dynamic card verification values
  Inventors: Kerry D. Brown; David Kevin Pariseau

  7. 72 8095113    Onetime passwords for smart chip cards
  Inventors: Brian Kean; Christopher T. Cox

  8. 70 6227447    Cardless payment system
  Inventors: Kurt M. Campisano

  9. 68 8615468    System and method for generating a dynamic card value
  Inventors: Rammohan Varadarajan

  10. 66 7922082    Dynamic card validation value
  Inventors: Michael A. Muscato

 
 
References:
Raw data from: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. "Data Download Tables." PatentsView. Accessed October 30, 2025. https://patentsview.org/download/data-download-tables.

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