Transaction Payables Processing System and Approach
First Claim
1. An automated transaction processing system for electronically processing transactions involving buyers and sellers using, for each transaction, electronic profile data that is appropriate to each buyer/seller pairing and a contract data set defined as a function of the buyer and a predefined business relationship between the buyer and at least one seller, the system comprising:
- a transaction processor arrangement to process electronic transactions according to the stored contract data sets and profile data, the transaction processor arrangement comprising a computer-implemented auditing engine to, for each transaction involving a buyer and at least one seller, audit transaction data using a stored contract data set for the transaction, and generate computer-readable audit data characterizing the audit, a computer-implemented payment processor to finance and process electronic payment to a seller financial institution in response to generated audit data indicating that payment to the seller is appropriate for at least one transaction involving the seller and a buyer, and a computer-implemented fee assessment engine to assess a transaction processing fee, for each seller to which electronic payment is made, by generating computer-readable fee data that associates the fee and a fee amount with a seller for which the fee data is generated.
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Abstract
Transaction management for financial institution-based transactions is facilitated. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, a transaction management approach involves the processing of financial aspects of transactions for a plurality of buyers using transaction rules associated with each buyer for automatically auditing each transaction (for each buyer) and any associated invoices. When a transaction or series of transactions are approved for payment for a particular buyer, the payment is automatically facilitated on behalf of the particular buyer. A fee is then assessed for each transaction or series of transactions, to one or more of the particular buyer, involved seller (or sellers), and a sponsor of the buyer that sponsors the buyer'"'"'s participation.
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25 Claims
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1. An automated transaction processing system for electronically processing transactions involving buyers and sellers using, for each transaction, electronic profile data that is appropriate to each buyer/seller pairing and a contract data set defined as a function of the buyer and a predefined business relationship between the buyer and at least one seller, the system comprising:
a transaction processor arrangement to process electronic transactions according to the stored contract data sets and profile data, the transaction processor arrangement comprising a computer-implemented auditing engine to, for each transaction involving a buyer and at least one seller, audit transaction data using a stored contract data set for the transaction, and generate computer-readable audit data characterizing the audit, a computer-implemented payment processor to finance and process electronic payment to a seller financial institution in response to generated audit data indicating that payment to the seller is appropriate for at least one transaction involving the seller and a buyer, and a computer-implemented fee assessment engine to assess a transaction processing fee, for each seller to which electronic payment is made, by generating computer-readable fee data that associates the fee and a fee amount with a seller for which the fee data is generated. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method for electronically processing transactions involving buyers and sellers using, for each transaction, electronic profile data that is appropriate to each buyer/seller pairing and a contract data set defined as a function of the buyer and a predefined business relationship between the buyer and at least one seller, the method comprising:
processing electronic transactions according to the stored contract data sets and profile data, by for each transaction involving a buyer and at least one seller, auditing transaction data using a stored contract data set for the transaction, and generating computer-readable audit data characterizing the audit, financing and processing electronic payment to a seller financial institution in response to generated audit data indicating that payment to the seller is appropriate for at least one transaction involving the seller and a buyer, and assessing a transaction processing fee, for each seller to which electronic payment is made, by generating computer-readable fee data that associates the fee and a fee amount with a seller for which the fee data is generated. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A transaction-based computer processing arrangement for processing payable funds for transactions between buyers and sellers, wherein at least one of a buyer and seller in each transaction transacts with a system administrator to process a payment account for the at least one of a buyer and seller, the computer processing arrangement being independent from the buyers and sellers and configured and arranged to:
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for each of a plurality of seller invoice data sets, associate the seller invoice data set with a transaction involving a buyer and seller using predefined contract data for a contract between the buyer and the seller, audit the associated invoice data set using the predefined contract data and audit data specified by the buyer in the transaction, and generate computer-readable audit data characterizing the audit;
for each buyer, process electronic payment to sellers'"'"' financial institutions in response to generated audit data indicating that payment to a seller is appropriate for at least one invoice data set for the seller; and
assess a transaction processing fee for each processed electronic payment by generating computer-readable fee data that associates the assessed fee and fee amount with a seller for which the electronic payment is generated. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25)
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