EFFICIENT DEBT-CLEARING SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20090024503A1
• Filed: 05/13/2008
• Published: 01/22/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Shacom.com Inc
• Original Assignee: Shacom.com Inc
• Inventors: Chien, Yung-Sung
• Application Number:
  US12/119,568
• Publication Number:
  US 20090024503A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/35
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/02 Banking, e.g. interest calculation or account maintenance credit or loans G06Q40/03

Abstract

An efficient debt-clearing system and method which is applied to electronic finance is disclosed. Internet technology is utilized to establish a direct-finance fund trading platform, whereby debtors can more efficiently raise funds with a lower cost to clear their debts, particularly the debts of credit cards and fiduciary loans. The efficient debt-clearing system functions as the core in the operation of the entire platform. Firstly, a debtor member submits an application to the platform. The platform analyzes the debt and credit of the debtor member and instructs the debtor to enhance his credit. Next, the platform directs the debtor member to the fund trading module to raise a fund. The fund acquired in fund trading is preferentially used to first clear the existing debt of the debtor member, and the debtor re-pays by installments the fund to the platform.

Claims

1. An efficient debt-clearing system comprising:

a user interface for allowing a user to log into the debt-clearing system via network communication;

a database for storing data; and

an administrating server for linking the user interface and the database, the system allowing the user and more users to raise debt-clearing funds with low costs.

2. The administrating server, according to claim 1, executes debt-clearing procedures by means of computing by each functional module;

the administrating server further comprising;

a membership application module for storing application data input by the user and for examining whether the user qualifies for membership;

a member attribute classification module for retrieving member data to classify a member according to attributes of the member;

a credit enhancement module for calculating a credit enhancement amount the member needs and a credit amount that requires the member provide a collateral or a guarantor;

a member directing module for directing the member to fund trading; and

a settlement and delivery module for executing settlement and delivery processes.

3. The membership application module according to claim 2, the user using a computer, a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) via a wired or wireless network connection or a mobile phone to connect to the administrating server.

4. The member attribute classification module according to claim 2, the member classification module classifying the member according to data in the database, the data comprising whether the member needs to clear debt, a credit state of the member, income of the member, and ability of the member to provide a collateral or a guarantor.

5. The credit enhancement module according to claim 2, the credit enhancement module providing a debtor member with a guaranteed credit line calculated according to data in the database comprising collateral and guarantor data.

6. The member directing module for directing the member to fund trading according to claim 2, the member directing module executing a fund bidding process in a fund trading module for the member or an assignor and determining acquirement of funds by comparing a bid criterion and a fund reserve criterion.

7. The settlement and delivery module according to claim 2, the settlement and delivery module receiving and delivering funds on a platform, executing receiving and paying for fund trading pools, clearing existing debts with funds acquired in fund trading, and receiving re-payments paid by members.

8. An efficient debt-clearing method for allowing a debtor member to raise debt-clearing funds and speed up debt-clearing and amortize debt with a lower-cost fund comprising:

a logging-in step;

a membership application step;

a member classification step;

a credit enhancement step;

a bidding authorization step;

a member directing step; and

a settlement and delivery step.

9. The member classification step according to claim 8, the member classification step comprising classifying a member according to whether the member needs to clear debt, a sum of the debt of the member, a credit state of the member, income of the member, and ability of the member to provide a collateral or a guarantor.

10. The member directing step according to claim 8, the member directing step comprising:

a bidding condition inputting step;

a bidding condition acknowledging step;

a bidding data examining step;

a bidding step;

a fund trading result announcing step;

an existing debt clearing step; and

a periodically amortizing debt-clearing fund step.

11. The bidding condition acknowledging step according to claim 10, the bidding data examining step comprising examining bidding data and if bidding data passes an examination procedure bidding proceeds and if bidding data does not pass the examination procedure the bidding condition inputting step is executed again.

12. The bidding step according to claim 10, wherein objects of bidding comprise a plurality of fund trading pools with varying periods, different payment time periods, and different contribution amounts.

13. The bidding step according to claim 10, wherein bidding is executed by a member or a financial organization managing a related platform and authorized by the member.

14. The bidding step according to claim 13, wherein if bidding is executed by the financial organization, the financial organization is only an assignee of the debtor member and the debtor member is subject to rights and obligations for fund reception and payment.

15. The member directing step according to claim 8, wherein the member directing step, whether a bidder is able to acquire a fund depends on a result of a competition between a bid price input by the bidder and a fund reserve of a related platform.

16. The fund trading result announcing step according to claim 10, wherein announced information comprises basic data of bidders, fund trading pool types, all input bid prices, and bid-winning prices.

17. The existing debt-clearing step according to claim 10, wherein a fund acquired in fund trading by a debtor member or an assignee of the debtor member is used to clear an existing debt of the debtor member.

18. The existing debt-clearing step according to claim 17, wherein a creditor of the existing debt is a financial organization, enterprise, or an individual managing a related platform or a financial organization, enterprise, or individual cooperating with said related platform.

19. The periodically amortizing debt-clearing fund step according to claim 10, wherein if a debtor member has acquired a fund in fund trading, the debtor member pays a repayment of a bidding amount regularly since the debtor member acquired the fund.

20. The settlement and delivery step according to claim 8, the settlement and delivery step further comprising:

delivering a fund to a member, the member acquiring the fund to clear an existing debt and periodically paying repayment of the fund; and

charging a penalty for a delayed repayment and an additional interest for the delayed repayment.