TRANSCRIPT, COURSE CATALOG AND FINANCIAL AID APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS

• US 20130066798A1
• Filed: 04/30/2012
• Published: 03/14/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alexander D. Crosett III, Beryl Simon, Duane Morin, Gary Southard, Jason Ciruolo, Sudeep P. Unhale
• Original Assignee: Alexander D. Crosett III
• Inventors: Morin, Duane, Ciruolo, Jason, Southard, Gary, Simon, Beryl, Unhale, Sudeep P., Crosett, Alexander D. III
• Application Number:
  US13/459,726
• Publication Number:
  US 20130066798A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/327
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/02 Banking, e.g. interest calculation or account maintenance credit or loans G06Q40/03
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/20 Education
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/205 Education administration or guidance

Abstract

In one aspect the invention relates to a method of automating an application process. The method includes the steps of collecting student identification information using a graphic user interface; collecting student transcript and student application data; generating a first secure communication channel to transmit a portion of the student transcript and student application data to a first server in response to a valid request; formatting the transcript data such that it is suitable for use by a first database; generating a second secure communication channel to transmit the portion of the student transcript and student application data to the first database, the first database managed by a higher educational institution, and notifying the first server when the transcript data has been received by the database. In one embodiment, the valid request is verified using student identification information.

Claims

1-8. -8. (canceled)

9. A method of processing financial aid applications, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) presenting a sequence of questions to an applicant using one or more computer-based graphic user interfaces,

(b) changing the questions in the sequence presented as a function of the answers given by the applicant, the questions developed in response to a plurality of financial aid applications, each financial aid application associated with an institution;

(c) populating a plurality of electronic financial aid forms using the answers provided to the sequence of questions, each financial aid form associated with one of the institutions; and

(d) transmitting each of the plurality of electronic financial aid forms to one or more of the institutions.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising implementing steps (a) and (d) using a financial aid aggregator portal;

and notifying the applicant of aid awards from one or more of the institutions using the financial aid aggregator portal.

11. The method of claim 9, further comprising the step of generating a hierarchical representation of financial aid awards on a per educational institution basis using a computer-based portal having a portal interface.

12. The method of claim 9, further comprising the step of identifying financial aid awards on a per institution basis using a graphical user interface of a computer-based finance manager.

22. The method of claim 9, further comprising the step of displaying one or more scholarship applications to the applicant using one or more computer-based graphical user interfaces.

23. The method of claim 9, further comprising determining a financial aid gap on a per institution basis and displaying the financial aid gap to the applicant.

24. The method of claim 9 wherein the institution is an educational institution or a governmental institution.

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