Open payments target marketing system

• US 7,624,070 B2
• Filed: 08/29/2006
• Issued: 11/24/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/08/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Martin Frederick Lebouitz
• Original Assignee: Martin Frederick Lebouitz
• Inventors: Lebouitz, Martin Frederick
• Primary Examiner(s): Abdi; Kambiz
• Assistant Examiner(s): Maguire; Lindsay M.
• Application Number:
  US11/512,011
• Publication Number:
  US 20070239598A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,183 Days
• Field of Search: 705/39
• US Class Current: 705/39
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/10 specially adapted for electronic funds transfer [EFT] systems; specially adapted for home banking systems
• 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

A system and method is provided by which banks implement an automated process to identify and analyze payment related information, and, more particularly, to such a system and method requiring an identification of incoming payments correspondent banks route through competitors; the capture of information, including the correspondent bank the payment originated from, the competitor the payment was sent through, the account party (correspondent bank'"'"'s customer), the payment beneficiary (customer), and payment ID information (reference numbers, date and amount) associated with such payments; the generation of an advisory message to the correspondent bank that payment can be made directly from their account (book transfer) and the generation of a report to correspondent banks identifying indirectly routed payments for the month.

Claims

1. An automated banking system for identifying and analyzing payment related information between a user'"'"'s correspondent banks, customers and competitors, and acting upon said information, said system comprising:

means for identifying incoming payments said correspondent banks route through said competitors;

means to capture incoming payment information, wherein said incoming payment information includes the correspondent bank from which said incoming payment originated, the competitor through which said payment was sent, the correspondent bank'"'"'s customer, the payment beneficiary or customer, and all payment identification information associated with said payment;

means for analyzing said incoming payment information; and

activating means for communicating said analysis to said user.

2. The automated banking system of claim 1, further including means to generate an advisory message to said correspondent bank informing said correspondent bank that said payment may be made directly from their account.

3. The automated banking system of claim 1, further including means for generating a report of said indirectly routed payments.

4. The automated banking system of claim 1, wherein said means for identifying, capturing and analyzing payment information are all performed on a real-time or near-real-time basis.

5. The automated banking system of claim 1, wherein means for capturing payment information comprises a commercially available payments solution framework.

6. The system of claim 1 further including the step of:

identifying potential new customers or expanding a user'"'"'s customer relationship to customers who have a predetermined volume of payment activity in one currency but not in another.

7. The system of claim 1 further including the step of:

identifying potential new customers who have a significant volume of payment activity from a user'"'"'s existing customers.

8. The system of claim 1 further including the step of:

identifying specific patterns of conduct from a customer when analyzing data from any one of inbound on-us transfers, outbound on-us transfers, inbound not on-us transfers and outbound not on-us transfers; and

communicating an alarm to said user.

9. An automated banking system for identifying and analyzing payment related information between a user'"'"'s correspondent banks, customers and competitors, and acting upon said information on a real-time or near-real-time basis, said system comprising:

means for identifying incoming payments said correspondent banks route through said competitors;

means to capture incoming payment information, wherein said incoming payment information includes the correspondent bank from which said incoming payment originated, the competitor through which said payment was sent, the correspondent bank'"'"'s customer, the payment beneficiary or customer, and all payment identification information associated with said payment, said means to capture comprising a commercially available payments solution framework;

means for analyzing said incoming payment information;

means to generate an advisory message to said correspondent bank informing said correspondent bank that said payment may be made directly from their account; and

means for generating a report of said indirectly routed payments.