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Assignee: Ameriprise Financial, Inc.


Location: Minneapolis, MN
No. of patents: 24

NumberTitleIssue Date
8036970Asset management reconciliation system and method
A system and a method of managing and reconciling changes in the cost basis for assets is provided. More specifically, the system and the method allow asset management advisors to provide clients with investment portfolio information that is complete and accurate. S...
10/11/2011
7962387System and method for administering a fee structure for mutual fund shares
A system and method for administrating a fee structure for a fund class of shares is disclosed. The invention includes issuing shares in a newly created Q class within a mutual fund, providing a right of accumulation benefit having a discounted front end sales load ...
06/14/2011
7933860Method and system for electronic archival and retrieval of electronic communications
The system receives an electronic communication, reviews the electronic communication to determine content of the electronic communication, applies rules to the content to determine a category associated with the electronic communication, wherein the rules relate to...
04/26/2011
7711624System and method for determining and administering an annuity with guaranteed minimum accumulation benefit
A computer-implemented method of calculating a value of a benefit for an annuity contract including a minimum contract accumulation value provision is disclosed. The method includes determining a current minimum contract accumulation value, determining a current val...
05/04/2010
7653596System and method for dividing a remittance and distributing a portion of the funds to multiple investment products
A known charge card billing system communicates with an investment broker system, wherein the investment broker system includes an instruction arrangement database, payment hierarchy and an investment account. An interested cardholder suitably appoints the charge ca...
01/26/2010
7653587Automated account statement generation process
Computer-implemented methods are executed by a software application that allows users to create or edit account statements designated or queued for batch printing runs. This application also allows a test generation of a statement for confirmation of report formats ...
01/26/2010
7593888System and method for facilitating investment account transfers
The present invention is directed toward a system and method that facilitates investment account transfers where the time standard for reliably accomplishing a transfer may be decreased. A system for facilitating investment account transfers includes an administrato...
09/22/2009
7584131Method for migrating financial and indicative plan data between computerized record keeping systems without a blackout period
There is provided a no-blackout migration process for migrating plans between record keeping systems with continuous and uninterrupted client and participant access to the plans being migrated comprising the steps of: moving a plan to a staging data storage, extract...
09/01/2009
7533053Method and apparatus for accommodating quality review in an automated account statement generation process
A computer-implemented quality review process is introduced in which account statements may be individually selected from a batch printing run. Selected statements may then be viewed, edited, approved and released for printing. Account statements may also be unappro...
05/12/2009
7483994System and method for creating a standard envelope structure
A system and method for expanding the capabilities of a SOAP envelope to include information useful for processing messages between a requestor and provider is disclosed. The message structure defines seven standard header blocks; each defined to provide data specif...
01/27/2009
7478397Service-based interface method
A method for combining the management of enterprise data along with a set of service design principles to allow users to derive the proper set of consistent services and structures is disclosed. The method leads to a more consistent, higher quality, lower cost servi...
01/13/2009
7475032Systems and methods for creating financial advice applications
The present invention is a computer-implemented system and method for easily configuring new financial advice applications from various services and sub-applications in order to deliver consistent advice to consumers, clients, and advisors, regardless of the deliver...
01/06/2009
7447663Method for on-line client set-up and authorization of automatic electronic funds transfers
There is provided a method for a client to authorize an automated clearance house (ACH) transaction comprising the steps of providing an online web interface on a financial services provider network, allowing a client to securely access the online web interface via ...
11/04/2008
7446892Electronic document imaging and delivery system and method
The present invention provides systems and methods for facilitating document imaging and delivery. A scanner reads a barcode from a separator sheet associated with a document, sorts the document based on the barcode, and scans the document in order to create an elec...
11/04/2008
7440919System and method for a financial planning competition
A method for a financial planning competition having at least two phases, an embodiment of the first phase including a written competition including providing a fictitious client profile to preselected teams, allowing each team thereafter to create a written financi...
10/21/2008
7430712System and method for dynamically resizing embeded web page content
A system and method for extending the utility of an HTML IFrame web page element by enabling the IFrame to dynamically resize its viewing boundaries according to the vertical and horizontal dimensions of the secondary content to be displayed within the IFrame is dis...
09/30/2008
7412489Method and system for electronic archival and retrieval of electronic communications
There is provided a method and system for archival and retrieval of communications and related documents that uses hardware and software to selectively monitor, capture, catalog and retrieve electronic communications and documents relating to the business of employe...
08/12/2008
7315978System and method for remote collection of data
A system and method for managing electronic forms data, and financial advise applications is provided. Financial advisors may be equipped with portable computing devices, such as a laptop or tablet PC to provide customers in-field support through the use of financia...
01/01/2008
7314168Account monitoring system
A system for analyzing account information including a processor grouping a plurality of individuals into a plurality of certification groups and assigning a corresponding rule set to each individual based on the certification grouping. A system for analyzing accoun...
01/01/2008
7313543System and method for dividing a remittance and distributing a portion of the funds to multiple investment products
A known charge card billing system communicates with an investment broker system, wherein the investment broker system includes an instruction arrangement database, payment hierarchy and an investment account. An interested cardholder suitably appoints the charge ca...
12/25/2007
7222093System and method for facilitating investment account transfers
The present invention is directed toward a system and method that facilitates investment account transfers where the time standard for reliably accomplishing a transfer may be decreased. A system for facilitating investment account transfers includes an administrato...
05/22/2007
7210620System for facilitating online electronic transactions
The invention provides systems and methods within existing business and technology infrastructures and processes for facilitating an electronic transaction including payment by an account issuer to a merchant for online purchases by a consumer. The invention uses a ...
05/01/2007
7127423System and method for creating and administering an investment instrument
The present invention provides a system and method for creating and administering an investment instrument. More specifically, the present invention provides a system and method for creating and administering an investment instrument that may be cleared through a de...
10/24/2006
7113933Method and system for automated generation of a requested report in a computer system
There is provided a method and system for efficiently generating administrative reports in an automated manner and for enabling users, who contributing to the reports, to create and store task, goal, progress and performance related descriptions, of varying complexi...
09/26/2006
 
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