Electronic bill payment system with account-number scheming

US6327577A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• CheckFree Services Corporation · US

Inventors

• David Lee Garrison · Indianapolis, US
• Patricia A. Kight · Alpharetta, US
• Brad Perkins · Dublin, US
• Cheryl L. Ward · Hilliard, US
• Mary Elizabeth Lawson · Dublin, US
• Amy Lynn Kerin · Delaware, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 19, 1997
• Grant date: Dec 4, 2001
• Expiry date: Dec 19, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q40/04
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A remittance payment method and system which receives a payor's account number with a payee, transforming it into an altered account number according to alteration rules previously stored in a merchant's database.