System and method for making payments via a network

US8583548B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Check Corporation · US

Inventors

• Guy Goldstein · Tecate Mission Road, US
• Dan Blumenfeld · Los Altos, US
• Stephen Schultz · Denver, US
• Nisim Tapiro · Ashdod, IL

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 30, 2011
• Grant date: Nov 12, 2013
• Expiry date: Sep 30, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/04
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system and method ranks funding sources to make payments according to user preferences, which may be both explicitly provided and learned, and the benefits and costs of using such funding sources, and displays the funding sources in ranked order, allows the user to select one or more funding sources, and makes the payment using the selected one or more funding sources.