PROCESSING OF CREDIT APPLICATIONS
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1. A system useful for automated identification of credit opportunities, comprising at least one data processor and computer programming media configured to cause the at least one data processor to:
- access data representing information related to a financial history of a prospective debtor, the data provided by a plurality of sources; and
using the data, pre-approve an offering by a creditor of at least one form of credit to the prospective debtor.
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Abstract
Systems, methods, computer programming, and graphical user interfaces adapted for enabling creditors to provide prospective debtors with multiple credit opportunities and the ability to act on them, either separately or in various combinations. The credit opportunities may be identified using, in whole or in part, consideration of financial histories of the prospective debtors with the creditor making the plurality of credit offers, and/or the financial history(ies) of the prospective debtors with other creditors.
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1. A system useful for automated identification of credit opportunities, comprising at least one data processor and computer programming media configured to cause the at least one data processor to:
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access data representing information related to a financial history of a prospective debtor, the data provided by a plurality of sources; and
using the data, pre-approve an offering by a creditor of at least one form of credit to the prospective debtor. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A system useful for automated identification of credit sale opportunities, comprising at least one data processor associated with a creditor, and computer programming media configured to cause the at least one data processor to:
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access data representing information identifying a prospective debtor;
using at least some of the accessed data, access in memory associated with the data processor data representing information related to a financial history of the prospective debtor with the creditor;
using at least some of the accessed data, access in the same or other memory data representing information related to a financial history of the prospective debtor provided by at least one other credit data source; and
using the data representing the financial history of the prospective debtor with the creditor and the data representing information related to a financial history of the prospective debtor provided by the at least one other credit data source, determine at least one form of credit to be offered by the creditor to the prospective debtor; and
output for review by the prospective debtor data representing information relating to the at least one form of credit to be offered to the prospective debtor. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A system useful for automated identification of credit opportunities, comprising at least one data processor associated with a creditor, and computer programming media for causing the at least one data processor to:
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access data representing information related to a financial history of a prospective debtor, the data provided by a plurality of sources; and
using at least some of the accessed data, access in the same or other memory data representing information related to a financial history of the prospective debtor with the creditor; and
using the data representing the financial history of the prospective debtor with the creditor, determine at least one form of credit to be offered by the creditor to the prospective debtor.
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17. A system useful for identifying opportunities for granting of credit, comprising at least one data processor, and computer programming media for causing the at least one data processor to:
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access data representing information related to a financial history of a prospective debtor, the data provided by a plurality of sources;
using the data representing the financial history of the prospective debtor, determine a plurality of forms of credit to be offered by a creditor to the prospective debtor; and
output for review by the prospective debtor data representing information relating to the plurality of forms of credit to be offered to the prospective debtor.
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18. A system useful for automated processing of credit applications, comprising at least one data processor associated with a creditor, and computer programming media for causing the at least one data processor to:
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access in memory associated with the data processor data representing information related to an application of an applicant for credit to be granted by the creditor;
using at least some of the accessed data, access in the same or other memory associated with the data processor data representing information related to a financial history of the applicant with the creditor;
using at least some of the accessed data, access in the same or other memory data representing information related to a financial history of the applicant provided by at least one other credit data source;
using the data representing the financial history of the applicant with the creditor and the data representing the financial history of the applicant provided by the at least one other credit data source, determine at least one form of credit to be offered by the creditor to the applicant; and
output for review by the applicant data representing information relating to the at least one form of credit to be offered to the applicant.
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19. A system useful for automated identification of credit opportunities, comprising at least one data processor associated with a creditor, and computer programming media adapted to cause the at least one data processor to:
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access data representing information identifying a prospective debtor;
using the accessed data, access data representing information related to a financial history of the prospective debtor provided by at least one other credit data source;
using the data representing the financial history of the prospective debtor provided by the at least one other credit data source, determine at least one form of credit to be offered by the creditor to the prospective debtor; and
output for review by the prospective debtor data representing information relating to at least one form of credit to be offered to the prospective debtor.
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20. Computer programming media readable by a data processor for causing the data processor to provide output signals useful for causing a computer display to present a graphical user interface screen useable by a user in controlling the same or another data processor in an automated identification of credit opportunities, the signal causing the display screen to:
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display at least one output field, the at least one output field identifying at least one of a plurality of credit offers offered by at least one creditor to a prospective debtor, whereby a plurality of credit offers offered by the at least one creditor to the prospective debtor are identified to the user of the computer display, each credit offer identified by the display of at least a type of credit and a credit amount;
display a plurality of input fields, usable by the user of the computer display in conjunction with an input device for inputting data indicating at least a partial acceptance of at least a part of one of the plurality of credit offers by the prospective debtor. - View Dependent Claims (21)
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22. A method for identifying credit opportunities to be offered to a prospective debtor, comprising:
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using information identifying a prospective debtor to access financial history information of the prospective debtor with a creditor;
using the financial history information, accessing financial history information of the prospective debtor provided by at least one other credit data source;
using the financial history information, determining at least one form of credit to be offered to the prospective debtor by the creditor; and
providing for review by the prospective debtor credit information relating to the at least one form of credit. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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29. Computer usable media having computer readable code embodied therein for causing at least one data processor to:
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access data representing information related to a financial history of a prospective debtor, the data provided by a plurality of sources; and
using the data, pre-approve an offering by a creditor of at least one form of credit to the prospective debtor. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32, 33)
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34. Computer usable media having computer readable code embodied therein for causing at least one data processor to:
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access data representing information identifying a prospective debtor;
using at least some of the accessed data, access in memory associated with the data processor data representing information related to a financial history of the prospective debtor with the creditor;
using at least some of the accessed data, access in the same or other memory data representing information related to a financial history of the prospective debtor provided by at least one other credit data source; and
using the data representing the financial history of the prospective debtor with the creditor and the data provided by at least one other credit data source, determine a plurality of forms of credit to be offered by the creditor to the prospective debtor; and
output for review by the prospective debtor data representing information relating to the plurality of forms of credit to be offered to the prospective debtor. - View Dependent Claims (35, 36, 37)
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38. Computer usable media having computer readable code embodied therein for causing at least one data processor to:
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access data representing information related to a financial history of a prospective debtor, the data provided by a plurality of sources; and
using at least some of the accessed data, access in the same or other memory data representing information related to a financial history of the prospective debtor with the creditor; and
using the data representing the financial history of the prospective debtor with the creditor, determine a plurality of forms of credit to be offered by the creditor to the prospective debtor.
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39. Computer usable media having computer readable code embodied therein for causing at least one data processor to:
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access data representing information related to a financial history of a prospective debtor, the data provided by a plurality of sources;
using the data representing the financial history of the prospective debtor, determine a plurality of forms of credit to be offered by a creditor to the prospective debtor; and
output for review by the prospective debtor data representing information relating to the plurality of forms of credit to be offered to the prospective debtor.
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40. Computer usable media having computer readable code embodied therein for causing at least one data processor to:
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access in memory associated with the data processor data representing information related to an application of an applicant for credit to be granted by the creditor;
using at least some of the accessed data, access in the same or other memory associated with the data processor data representing information related to a financial history of the applicant with the creditor;
using at least some of the accessed data, access in the same or other memory data representing information related to a financial history of the applicant provided by at least one other credit data source;
using the data representing the financial history of the applicant with the creditor and the data provided by at least one other credit data source, determine at least one forms of credit to be offered by the creditor to the applicant; and
output for review by the applicant data representing information relating to the at least one form of credit to be offered to the applicant.
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41. Computer usable media having computer readable code embodied therein for causing at least one data processor to:
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access data representing information identifying a prospective debtor;
using at least some of the accessed data, access data representing information related to a financial history of the prospective debtor provided by at least one other credit data source;
using the data representing the financial history of the prospective debtor provided by at least one other credit data source, determine a plurality of forms of credit to be offered by the creditor to the prospective debtor; and
output for review by the prospective debtor data representing information relating to the plurality of forms of credit to be offered to the prospective debtor.
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