System and Methods for Benefit Eligibility Verification

• US 20170161248A1
• Filed: 12/30/2015
• Published: 06/08/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/03/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kofax International Switzerland Sàrl (Kofax Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Lexmark International Technology, S.A. (Ninestar Corporation)
• Inventors: Parker, Kristen Diane
• Application Number:
  US14/984,123
• Publication Number:
  US 20170161248A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/174 Form filling; Merging
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/12 Accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/26 Government or public services business processes related to the transportation industry G06Q50/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0823 using certificates cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication involving certificates H04L9/3263
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/069 using certificates or pre-shared keys
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements

Abstract

A method for determining by a server whether an owner of a document is eligible for one or more receivables that includes selecting, based on a regulation associated with the document, one or more fields of an electronic copy of the document; generating a form displaying the selected one or more fields; sending, based on the regulation, a notice of availability of the form to a mobile device; receiving, from the mobile device, updated one or more fields via the form; determining, based on the updated one or more fields and the regulation, whether the owner of the document is eligible for the one or more receivables; and upon a positive determination, sending a notice of eligibility to the owner via the mobile device.

Claims

1. A method for determining by a server whether an owner of a document is eligible for one or more receivables, the method comprising:

selecting, based on a regulation associated with the document, one or more fields of an electronic copy of the document;

generating a form displaying the selected one or more fields;

sending, based on the regulation, a notice of availability of the form to a mobile device;

receiving, from the mobile device, updated one or more fields via the form;

determining, based on the updated one or more fields and the regulation, whether the owner of the document is eligible for the one or more receivables; and

upon a positive determination, sending a notice of eligibility to the owner via the mobile device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more fields displayed on the form corresponds to at least one of a static and a dynamic field of the electronic copy.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the sending the notice of availability of the form to the mobile device includes sending the notice of availability and one of the form and a link to the form attached to the notice.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising identifying the mobile device as a mobile device assigned to the owner of the document based on a field of the electronic copy.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising confirming, based on data associated with the owner, whether a user of the mobile device is authorized to update the one or more fields via the form, upon a positive confirmation, performing the receiving the updated one or more fields.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the data includes at least one of an email address, an ID number and a digital signature from the user.

7. A method for electronically verifying benefit eligibility, comprising:

generating an electronic benefit eligibility form from a plurality of database fields;

providing the electronic benefit eligibility form to a mobile device for updating of the database fields by a user;

receiving, from the mobile device via the electronic benefit eligibility form, updated data corresponding to the database fields; and

replacing the plurality of database fields with the received updated data.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the providing the electronic benefit eligibility form comprises e-mailing the user that the electronic benefit eligibility form is available for completion.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the e-mailing includes e-mailing a universal resource locator from which the electronic benefit eligibility form may be accessed by the user.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the providing the electronic benefit eligibility form comprises texting the user that the electronic benefit eligibility form is available for completion.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the texting includes an active link to access the electronic benefit eligibility form.

12. The method of claim 7, wherein the replacing the plurality of the database fields occurs automatically without manual data entry.

13. The method of claim 7, wherein one of the plurality of database fields is a household income field.

14. The method of claim 7, wherein one of the plurality of database fields is a number of dependents field.

15. The method of claim 7, further comprising verifying an identity of the user prior to the receiving the updated data corresponding to the database fields.

16. One or more computer readable memories containing a computer program that is executable by a processor to perform a method of determining user eligibility for a receivable, the method comprising:

generating a form containing the one or more fields, the one or more fields associated with a criteria of a regulation;

sending, based on the regulation, a notice of availability of the form to a mobile device;

displaying the one or more fields to a user of the mobile device for updating by the user;

receiving, from the mobile device, updated data corresponding to the one or more fields;

determining, based on the updated data and the regulation, whether the user is eligible for the one or more receivables; and

upon a positive determination, sending a notice of eligibility to the user via the mobile device.

17. The one or more computer readable memories of claim 16, wherein the positive determination comprises confirming that the received updated data meets a criteria of the regulation.

18. The one or more computer readable memories of claim 17, wherein the criteria of the regulation comprises a household income.

19. The one or more computer readable memories of claim 17, wherein the criteria of the regulation comprises a number of dependents.

20. The one or more computer readable memories of claim 16, wherein the method further comprises verifying an identity of the user prior to the receiving, from the mobile device, the updated data corresponding to the one or more fields.