On-Line Higher Education Financing System
First Claim
1. A method of providing a user with education financing information, comprising the acts of:
- maintaining an electronic site on a computer network to which the user may connect;
sending data to the user over the network for presenting at least one electronic screen which contains financial award information concerning a potential student of an educational institution, the financial award information including a monetary award which may be used by the student to attend the educational institution; and
sending data to the user over the network when requested for presenting at least one electronic screen which contains cost projection information, the cost projection information being a function of the award and including an amount of money required for the student to attend the educational institution.
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Abstract
A method of providing a user with education financing information, includes the acts of: maintaining an electronic site on a computer network to which the user may connect; sending data to the user over the network for presenting at least one electronic screen which contains financial award information concerning a potential student of an educational institution, the financial award information including a monetary award which may be used for the student to attend the educational institution; and sending data to the user over the network when requested for presenting at least one electronic screen which contains cost projection information, the cost projection information being a function of the award and including an amount of money required for the student to attend the educational institution.
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Citations
112 Claims
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1. A method of providing a user with education financing information, comprising the acts of:
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maintaining an electronic site on a computer network to which the user may connect;
sending data to the user over the network for presenting at least one electronic screen which contains financial award information concerning a potential student of an educational institution, the financial award information including a monetary award which may be used by the student to attend the educational institution; and
sending data to the user over the network when requested for presenting at least one electronic screen which contains cost projection information, the cost projection information being a function of the award and including an amount of money required for the student to attend the educational institution. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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33. A method of providing a user with education financing information comprising the acts of:
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maintaining an electronic site on a computer network to which the user may connect;
sending data to the user over the network for presenting at least one electronic screen which contains financial award information concerning a potential student of an educational institution, the financial award information including a monetary award which may be used by the student to attend the educational institution, the award including fiends taken from at least one of grants, scholarships, loans, and employment of the student; and
sending data to the user over the computer network for presenting at least one electronic screen which includes an input field operable to receive data from the user representing funds other than those of the award to aggregate with the award to obtain a modified award. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47)
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48. A method of providing users with education financing information, comprising the acts of:
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maintaining an electronic site on a computer network to which the users and an administrator of an educational institution may connect;
sending data to each of the users over the network for presenting at least one electronic screen which contains financial award information concerning potential students of an educational institution, the financial award information including a monetary award which may be used for the respective students to attend the educational institution, the award including funds taken from at least one of grants, scholarships, loans, and employment of the student;
sending data to the administrator over the computer network for presenting at least one electronic screen which includes reporting information indicating whether respective users have at least one of accepted, declined, and deferred a decision on, the respective awards; and
sending modified financial award information to at least one of the potential students, the modified financial award information including at least one modified monetary award based on the reporting information. - View Dependent Claims (49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56)
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57. An apparatus for providing a user with education financing information, comprising:
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a processor;
a storage medium coupled to the processor; and
a network interface coupled to the processor and operable to send and receive data over a computer network, the processor being operable to execute instructions in accordance with a computer program which is at least partially stored in the storage medium, the computer program being operable to instruct at least one of the processor and the network interface to perform the functions of;
maintaining an electronic site on a computer network to which the user may connect;
sending data to the user over the network for presenting at least one electronic screen which contains financial award information concerning a potential student of an educational institution, the financial award information including a monetary award which may be used for the student to attend the educational institution; and
sending data to the user over the network when requested for presenting at least one electronic screen which contains cost projection information, the cost projection information being a function of the award and including an amount of money required for the student to attend the educational institution. - View Dependent Claims (58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 90, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99)
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89. An apparatus for providing a user with education financing information, comprising:
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a processor;
a storage medium coupled to the processor; and
a network interface coupled to the processor and operable to send and receive data over a computer network, the processor being operable to execute instructions in accordance with a computer program which is at least partially stored in the storage medium, the computer program being operable to instruct at least one of the processor and the network interface to perform the functions of;
maintaining an electronic site on a computer network to which the user may connect;
sending data to the user over the network for presenting at least one electronic screen which contains financial award information concerning a potential student of an educational institution, the financial award information including a monetary award which may be used by the student to attend the educational institution, the award including funds taken from at least one of grants, scholarships, loans, and future employment of the student; and
sending data to the user over the computer network for presenting at least one electronic screen which includes an input field operable to receive data from the user representing funds other than those of the award to aggregate with the award to obtain a modified award. - View Dependent Claims (91, 92, 100, 101, 102, 103, 110)
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104. An apparatus for providing users with education financing information, comprising:
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a processor;
a storage medium coupled to the processor; and
a network interface coupled to the processor and operable to send and receive data over a computer network, the processor being operable to execute instructions in accordance with a computer program which is at least partially stored in the storage medium, the computer program being operable to instruct at least one of the processor and the network interface to perform the functions of;
maintaining an electronic site on a computer network to which the users and an administrator of an educational institution may connect;
sending data to each of the users over the network for presenting at least one electronic screen which contains financial award information concerning potential students of an educational institution, the financial award information including a monetary award which may be used for the respective students to attend the educational institution, the award including funds taken from at least one of grants, scholarships, loans, and employment of the student;
sending data to the administrator over the computer network for presenting at least one electronic screen which includes reporting information indicating whether respective users have at least one of accepted, declined, and deferred a decision on, the respective awards; and
sending modified financial award information to at least one of the potential students, the modified financial award information including at least one modified monetary award based on the reporting information. - View Dependent Claims (105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 111, 112)
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