Systems and Methods for Processing Benefits
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Abstract
Systems and methods for processing, for example, childcare benefits include: issuing a benefit card to a childcare customer; receiving a start time for childcare service at a childcare provider, the start time recorded by using the benefit card at a terminal located at the childcare provider at the start of childcare service; receiving an end time for childcare service at the childcare provider, the end time recorded by using the benefit card at a terminal located at the childcare provider at the end of childcare service; computing the childcare benefit eligibility based on the start time, the end time and benefits available for the childcare customer; and paying the childcare provider a payment based on the computed benefit eligibility.
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Citations
113 Claims
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1-91. -91. (canceled)
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92. A method for collecting information used to process benefit payments to a service provider, comprising:
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reading, at a terminal located at the service provider, a unique machine-readable identifier from a benefit token at a beginning of a service session, the benefit token being issued to a customer; responsive to the reading, generating a session start time; reading, at the terminal, the unique machine-readable identifier from the benefit token at an end of the service session to generate an end time; and transmitting to a benefits processing system a transaction record including information reflecting the start time of the service session and the end time of the service session. - View Dependent Claims (93, 94, 95, 97, 98, 99)
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100. An apparatus located at a service provider for collecting information used to process benefit payments to the service provider, comprising:
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a receiving component to receive a unique machine-readable identifier from a benefit token at a beginning of a service session and at an end of the service session, the benefit token being issued to a customer; a computing component to generate a session start time responsive to receiving the identifier at the beginning of the service session, to generate a session end time responsive to receiving the identifier at the end of the service session, and to generate a transaction record including information reflecting the session start time and the session end time; a memory component to store the session start time; and a transmission component to transmit the transaction record to a benefits processing system. - View Dependent Claims (101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106)
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107. A tangible computer-readable medium containing instructions for controlling a data processing system to perform a method for collecting information used to process benefit payments to a service provider, the method comprising:
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reading, at a terminal located at the service provider, a unique machine-readable identifier from a benefit token at a beginning of a service session, the benefit token being issued to a customer; responsive to the reading, generating a session start time; reading, at the terminal, the unique machine-readable identifier from the benefit token at an end of the service session to generate a session end time; and transmitting a transaction record including information reflecting the session start time and the session end time to a benefits processing system. - View Dependent Claims (108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113)
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