STATEMENT COLLECTION, CONSOLIDATION, AND FACILITATION

• US 20140129432A1
• Filed: 11/02/2012
• Published: 05/08/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/02/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Bank of America Corp.
• Original Assignee: Bank of America Corp.
• Inventors: Hanson, Carrie Anne, Dintenfass, Katherine, Wittkowski, Alexander C., Bondesen, Laura Corinne, Wolf, Jon R., Enscoe, Scott R., Newman, Brett, Kopelow, Leo, Li, Yameng, Chen, Nicole, Sharp, Nicholas, Modesitt, Leland E., Warshawsky, Marc Lance
• Application Number:
  US13/667,437
• Publication Number:
  US 20140129432A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/40
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06311 Scheduling, planning or task assignment for a person or group
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/14 specially adapted for billing systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/04 Billing or invoicing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/02 Banking, e.g. interest calculation or account maintenance credit or loans G06Q40/03

Abstract

Embodiments of the invention include systems, methods, and computer-program products for providing vendor statement management for a user, including the receiving, monitoring, and paying of statements with no or minimal user required interaction. As such, the invention provides a facilitated access to accurate statement information from all of the vendors or service providers consolidated into one reliable source. Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for statement management. Specifically, embodiments of the invention allow for determining vendor statements associated with a user, consolidating the found vendor statements, monitoring those statements, notifying user if vendor statement need attention or payment, and providing payment from a payment account for the vendor statement.

Claims

1. A system for providing vendor statement management to a user, the system comprising:

a memory device with computer-readable program code stored thereon;

a communication device;

a processing device operatively coupled to the memory device and the communication device, wherein the processing device is configured to execute the computer-readable program code to;

receive one or more vendor statements from the user or from a vendor, wherein receiving the one or more vendor statements comprises receiving the one or more vendor statements electronically or from image capture, wherein the received one or more vendor statements are stored upon receipt;

identify previous vendor statements from a user'"'"'s financial accounts, wherein the previous vendor statement from the user'"'"'s financial account are identified based on a recognition of payments from the user'"'"'s financial account to the vendor;

determine the vendors associated with the one or more vendor statement received and the previous vendor statements identified from the user'"'"'s financial accounts;

monitor, based on the determined vendors, correspondence between the determined vendors and the user to identify new vendor statements;

communicate, based on the determined vendors associated with the one or more vendor statements received and the identified previous vendor statements, with the determined vendors to retrieve, automatically, the identified new vendor statements directly from the determined vendor;

consolidate all vendor statements including the received one or more vendor statements, the identified previous vendor statements, and the retrieved new vendor statements, wherein the consolidated vendor statements are associated with the user;

determine critical vendor data associated with the consolidated vendor statements, wherein the critical vendor data includes satisfaction dates and payment amount due for satisfaction; and

provide, automatically, payment for satisfaction of the consolidated vendor statements directly to the vendor from the user'"'"'s financial accounts.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the processing device further comprises determining a user payment device for satisfaction of vendor statements is determined by one or more of vendor statement payment history, artificial intelligence, or user input.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein vendor data comprise one or more of vendor account, payment required for satisfaction, past user payment device for satisfying a previous vendor statement, and user name associated with the vendor.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the processing device is further configured to notify the user of any pending critical vendor data and pending user preferences associated with any of the one or more consolidated vendor statements.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein providing payment for satisfaction of the consolidated vendor statements directly to the vendor occurs without user interaction, wherein providing payment for satisfaction occurs before the critical vendor date.

9. The system of claim 8 wherein the processing device is further configured to continually monitoring the vendor and vendor statement associated with the satisfied vendor statement for confirmation of satisfaction.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the processing device is further configured to flag discrepancies in the received one or more vendor statements and the retrieved new vendor statements vendor statements, wherein the discrepancies are differences in previously received or retrieved vendor statements and currently received or retrieved vendor statements.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the processing device is further configured to monitor vendor statement history for the user.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the vendor statement is one or more of an invoice for services rendered or a bill for purchasing a product.

2. (canceled)

3. (canceled)

4. (canceled)

13. A computer program product for providing vendor statement management to a user, the computer program product comprising at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer-readable program code portions embodied therein, the computer-readable program code portions comprising:

an executable portion configured for receiving one or more vendor statements from the user or from a vendor, wherein receiving the one or more vendor statements comprises receiving the one or more vendor statements, wherein the received one or more vendor statements are stored upon receipt;

an executable portion configured for identifying previous vendor statements from a user'"'"'s financial accounts, wherein the previous vendor statement from the user'"'"'s financial account are identified based on a recognition of payments from the user'"'"'s financial account to the vendor;

an executable portion configured for determining the vendors associated with the one or more vendor statement received and the previous vendor statements identified from the user'"'"'s financial accounts;

an executable portion configured for monitoring, based on the determined vendors, correspondence between the vendor and the user to identify new vendor statements;

an executable portion configured for communicating, based on the determined vendors associated with the one or more vendor statements received and the identified previous vendor statements, with the determined vendors to retrieve, automatically, the identified new vendor statements directly from the determined vendor;

an executable portion configured for consolidating all vendor statements including the received one or more vendor statements, the identified previous vendor statements, and the retrieved new vendor statements, wherein the consolidated vendor statements are associated with the user;

an executable portion configured for determining critical vendor data associated with the consolidated vendor statements, wherein the critical vendor data includes satisfaction dates and payment amount due for satisfaction; and

an executable portion configured for providing, automatically, payment for satisfaction of the consolidated vendor statements directly to the vendor from the user'"'"'s financial accounts.

15. The computer program product of claim 13, further comprising an executable portion configured for determining a user payment device for satisfaction of vendor statements is determined by one or more of vendor statement payment history, artificial intelligence, or user input.

16. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein vendor data comprise one or more of vendor account, payment required for satisfaction, past user payment device for satisfying a previous vendor statement, and user name associated with the vendor.

17. The computer program product of claim 13, further comprising an executable portion configured for notifying the user of any pending critical vendor data and pending user preferences associated with any of the one or more consolidated vendor statements.

18. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein providing payment for satisfaction of the consolidated vendor statements directly to the vendor occurs without user interaction, wherein providing payment for satisfaction occurs before the critical vendor date.

19. The computer program product of claim 18, further comprising an executable portion configured to continually monitoring the vendor and vendor statement associated with the satisfied vendor statement for confirmation of satisfaction.

20. The computer program product of claim 13, further comprising an executable portion configured flagging discrepancies in the received one or more vendor statements and the retrieved new vendor statements vendor statements, wherein the discrepancies are differences in previously received or retrieved vendor statements and currently received or retrieved vendor statements.

14. (canceled)

21. A computer-implemented method for providing vendor statement management to a user, the method comprising:

receiving one or more vendor statements from the user or from a vendor, wherein receiving the one or more vendor statements comprises retrieving the one or more vendor statements electronically or from image capture, wherein the received one or more vendor statements are stored upon receipt;

identifying previous vendor statements from a user'"'"'s financial accounts, wherein the previous vendor statement from the user'"'"'s financial account are identified based on a recognition of payments from the user'"'"'s financial account to the vendor;

determining the vendors associated with the one or more vendor statement received and the previous vendor statements identified from the user'"'"'s financial accounts;

monitoring, based on the determined vendors, correspondence between the vendor and the user to identify new vendor statements;

communicating, based on the determined vendors associated with the one or more vendor statements received and the identified previous vendor statements, with the determined vendors to retrieve, automatically, the identified new vendor statements directly from the determined vendor;

consolidating all vendor statements including the received one or more vendor statements, the identified previous vendor statements, and the retrieved new vendor statements, wherein the consolidated vendor statements are associated with the user;

determining critical vendor data associated with the consolidated vendor statements, wherein the critical vendor data includes satisfaction dates and payment amount due for satisfaction; and

providing, automatically, payment for satisfaction of the consolidated vendor statements directly to the vendor from the user'"'"'s financial accounts.

23. The method of claim 21, further comprising determining a user payment device for satisfaction of vendor statements is determined by one or more of vendor statement payment history, artificial intelligence, or user input.

24. The method of claim 21, further comprising notifying the user of any pending critical vendor data and pending user preferences associated with any of the one or more consolidated vendor statements.

25. The method of claim 21, wherein providing payment for satisfaction of the consolidated vendor statements directly to the vendor occurs without user interaction, wherein providing payment for satisfaction occurs before the critical vendor date.

26. The method of claim 25, further comprising continually monitoring the vendor and vendor statement associated with the satisfied vendor statement for confirmation of satisfaction.

27. The method of claim 21, further comprising flagging discrepancies in the received one or more vendor statements and the retrieved new vendor statements vendor statements, wherein the discrepancies are differences in previously received or retrieved vendor statements and currently received or retrieved vendor statements.

22. (canceled)