System to facilitate payments for a customer through a foreign bank, software, business methods, and other related methods

US7689483B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Amegy Bank of Texas · US

Inventors

• Jingyan Wu · Kingwood, US
• Lee M. Tankersley · Houston, US
• Laura Garcia · Houston, US
• Juan G. Castellano · Houston, US
• Russell L. Root · Shaker Heights, US
• Mark Friedman · New Rochelle, US
• Laszlo Emil POPESZKU · Tomball, US
• David C. Farries · Diemelstraße, US
• Walter Scott Horton · Tomball, US
• Chinh Tran · San Diego, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 20, 2003
• Grant date: Mar 30, 2010
• Expiry date: Aug 30, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q40/12
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system for facilitating payment of accounts payables from a foreign financial institution for a customer of a domestic financial institution, software, and methods are provided. The system includes a first financial institution computer positioned at a domestic financial institution site to define a domestic financial institution server, having memory associated therewith, and foreign exchange analyzing software stored in the memory of the domestic financial institution server to analyze a foreign exchange transaction. The system also includes an area network in communication with the server, and a second customer computer in communication with the area network, positioned remote from the server at a customer site, and positioned to transmit an accounts payable batch data file having a plurality of accounts payable to the foreign exchange analyzing software stored on the server.