Associating an image of a receipt with a record of charge

• US 10,157,425 B2
• Filed: 10/25/2017
• Issued: 12/18/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/16/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. (American Express Company)
• Original Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. (American Express Company)
• Inventors: Chelst, Azriel, Mangeney, Estelle, Pham, Lee
• Primary Examiner(s): Mariam, Daniel G
• Application Number:
  US15/793,172
• Publication Number:
  US 20180047113A1
• Time in Patent Office: 419 Days
• Field of Search: 382132, 382190, 382209, 382218, 382305-306, 382313, 705 30
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/12 Accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/125 Finance or payroll

Abstract

Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture for expense management are disclosed. A user may submit receipts for one or more transactions into an expense management system. The expense management system may extract information from the receipts and match the extracted information to one or more of a plurality of Records of Charge (ROCs). The expense management system may match the extracted information to a ROC based on vendor name, location, time stamp, and the like. The expense management system may further assign a ROC to an expense category. The expense management system may assign a ROC to an expense category based on a standard industrial classification (SIC) code of a merchant, a category assigned to a different ROC, and a location associated with the ROC. An expense report for all submitted receipts may be generated.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

capturing, by a mobile device, an image of a receipt,

wherein an expense management system compares the image of the receipt with a record of charge (ROC) associated with a transaction account, and

wherein the ROC includes a standard industrial classification (SIC) code of a merchant and a location associated with the ROC; and

receiving, by the mobile device, a notification that an entry on the image of the receipt is associated with the ROC based upon at least one of the SIC code or the location.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the ROC is assigned to a category of expense.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the ROC is assigned to a category of expense based upon at least one of:

the SIC code of the merchant, a category assigned to a different ROC, or the location associated with the ROC.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising capturing, by the mobile device, a plurality of images of a plurality of receipts,

wherein the plurality of receipts are separated into individual receipts,

wherein a plurality of records of charge (ROC) associated with the transaction account are retrieved, and

wherein one of the plurality of images is matched to one of the plurality of ROCs to obtain a matched image, based upon information acquired from each of the plurality of images.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising submitting, by the mobile device, the image of the receipt and the ROC to the expense management system.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting, by the mobile device, at least one of a client name or project code to associate with the ROC.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising capturing, by an app on the mobile device, the image of the receipt.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the ROC is retrieved from a transaction processor system.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the ROC is retrieved in response to receiving the image of the receipt.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the ROC is provided by the merchant via a merchant system to a transaction processor system.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving a request, by the mobile device, for the image of the receipt associated with the ROC.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein an instruction is received to delay the comparing of the image of the receipt to the ROC.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the instruction to delay the comparing comprises inaction by a customer in response to an alert for requesting the image of the receipt.

14. A mobile device comprising:

a processor; and

a tangible, non-transitory memory configured to communicate with the processor,

the tangible, non-transitory memory having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising;

capturing, by the processor, an image of a receipt,

wherein the image of the receipt is compared with a record of charge (ROC) associated with a transaction account, and

wherein the ROC includes a standard industrial classification (SIC) code of a merchant and a location associated with the ROC; and

receiving, by the processor, a notification that an entry on the image of the receipt is associated with the ROC based upon at least one of the SIC code or the location.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the ROC is retrieved in response to receiving the image of the receipt.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the ROC is provided by the merchant via a merchant system to a transaction processor system.

17. The system of claim 14, further comprising receiving a request, by the mobile device, for the image of the receipt associated with the ROC.

18. The system of claim 14, wherein an instruction is received to delay the comparing of the image of the receipt to the ROC.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the instruction to delay the comparing comprises inaction by a customer in response to an alert for requesting the image of the receipt.

20. An article of manufacture including a non-transitory, tangible computer readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by a mobile device, cause the mobile device to perform operations comprising:

capturing, by the mobile device, an image of a receipt,

wherein the image of the receipt is compared with a record of charge (ROC) associated with a transaction account, and

wherein the ROC includes a standard industrial classification (SIC) code of a merchant and a location associated with the ROC; and

receiving, by the mobile device, a notification that an entry on the image of the receipt is associated with the ROC based upon at least one of the SIC code or the location.