System and method for executing deposit transactions over the internet

• US 7,680,731 B1
• Filed: 06/27/2007
• Issued: 03/16/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: The Chase Manhattan Bank (JP Morgan Chase & Co)
• Original Assignee: JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. (JP Morgan Chase & Co)
• Inventors: Davies, Anthony, Hirschhorn, Eric, Lally, Dave, Resca, Teri, Moy, Eileen, Chang, Coleman
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel; Jagdish N
• Application Number:
  US11/823,447
• Time in Patent Office: 993 Days
• Field of Search: 705/35, 705/39, 705/38, 705/42
• 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 20/108 Remote banking, e.g. home banking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/03 Credit; Loans; Processing thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange

Abstract

A system and method for initiating and processing banking deposits. In a preferred embodiment, the system is maintained by a financial institution such as a bank and the bank'"'"'s customers access the system through the Internet. The system provides a Graphical User Interface that allows the customers to view the bank'"'"'s current rates for a plurality of currencies and a plurality of time periods. The customer selects the desired rate on the interface and the system automatically generates a deal ticket that is presented to the customer. The customer submits the deal ticket for trading. A confirmation of the trade occurs online and real time. The system has further utilities for the customers to view archives of previous deals, establish profiles and preferences and chat with bank representatives. The system further includes state of the art security in order to ensure the safety and confidentiality of the banking transactions.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method of conducting banking deposit transactions through a network between a bank and its customers, the computer implemented method comprising:

providing an interface, comprising at least a computer processor, wherein the interface provides access to a network to which a customer has access;

linking a server to the interface over the network;

transmitting deposit terms from the server over the network to the customer at the interface, the deposit terms including value dates, tenors and rates at which the bank will execute a deposit for a given currency;

receiving at the server from the network a deposit request generated by the customer at the interface in response to the deposit terms, the deposit request comprising a specific value date, specific tenor, specific rate and a principal amount of a deposit for the given currency; and

determining at the server whether the deposit terms specified in the received generated deposit request are within predetermined parameters set up between the customer and the bank,

wherein the deposit request is automatically executed upon the specific rate in the generated deposit request matching a live rate and the deposit terms being within the predetermined parameters,

wherein further the principal amount of the deposit is deposited by the bank at the specific value date, specific tenor and specific rate specified in the executed received generated deposit request in an account of the customer, wherein funds are transferred to the bank from or on behalf of the customer to settle the deposit according to settlement instructions communicated between the customer and the bank.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the funds are transferred to the bank to settle the deposit from multiple settlement accounts.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the multiple settlement accounts comprise one or more currencies.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the principal amount and the interest generated by the deposit are deposited into a maturity account at the end of the term of the deposit.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising multiple maturity accounts.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the predetermined parameters comprise whether the customer generated the deposit request within a fixed amount of time following transmittal of the deposit terms to the customer.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the settlement instructions comprise standard default instructions established between the bank and the customer.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the settlement instructions are modified by the customer when selecting the deposit terms.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the settlement instructions comprise alternative instructions, wherein further the customer selects one of the alternative settlement instructions.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the settlement instructions are modified by the customer when selecting the deposit terms.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the interface is a secure interface.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein transmitting the deposit terms further comprises transmitting the deposit terms in a rate table.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein one axis of the rate table comprises currencies and another axis comprises tenors, the rate table being populated with rates corresponding to the currencies and tenors.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein generating a deposit request comprises selecting by the customer the specific rate from the rate table, wherein the specific value date and the specific tenor are automatically generated from the rate table in response to the specific rate selected by the customer.

15. The method of claim 13, further comprising displaying a rate table that was customized by the customer.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the customized rate table displays one or more of a plurality of currencies.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the plurality of currencies include major currencies and minor currencies.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein the customized rate table displays a customized value date, the customized value date selected from a plurality of value dates.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the plurality of value dates include today, tomorrow and spot.

20. The method of claim 15, wherein the customized rate table displays one or more of a plurality of tenors.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the plurality of tenors range from overnight one year.

22. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying an archive of all executed deposit requests.

23. The method of claim 1, wherein a session comprises the time period starting when the customer logs onto the interface and ending when the customer logs off of the interface, the method further comprising displaying an archive of all deposit requests executed by the customer during the session.

24. The method of claim 1, wherein the deposit request comprises a deal ticket, the deal ticket comprising fields containing data representing the specific value date, specific tenor and specific rate.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein the data in the fields of the deal ticket have been modified by the customer.

26. The method of claim 24, wherein the deal ticket further comprises fields containing data representing a principal amount of the deposit.

27. The method of claim 26, wherein the customer supplies the data representing the principal amount of the deposit.

28. The method of claim 26, wherein the deal ticket further comprises fields containing data representing at least one customer account associated with the deposit.

29. The method of claim 28, wherein the customer supplies data representing the at least one customer account associated with the deposit.

30. The method of claim 29, wherein the customer supplies data representing a plurality of customer accounts associated with the deposit.

31. The method of claim 1, further comprising acknowledgment of the deposit request.

32. The method of claim 1, further comprising communicating with the customer through the interface.

33. The method of claim 32, wherein further the communicating with the customer is through a live chat feature.

34. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting from the server a first modified deposit request comprising first modified deposit terms over the network to the customer at the interface if one or more of the deposit terms in the received generated deposit request are not within the predetermined parameters and the specific rate is different from the live rate; and

receiving acknowledgement from the network at the server of the first modified deposit request from the customer if the customer accepts the first modified deposit terms,

wherein further the first modified deposit request is automatically executed upon customer acceptance of the first modified deposit request at the interface within a predetermined period of time,

wherein further the principal amount of the deposit is deposited by the bank at the specific value date, specific tenor, specific rate and principal amount specified in the first modified deposit request into an account of the customer, wherein funds are transferred to the bank from or on behalf of the customer to settle the deposit according to settlement instructions communicated between the customer and the bank.

35. The method of claim 34, further comprising:

thereafter transmitting from the server a second modified deposit request comprising second modified deposit terms to the interface over the network to the customer if the customer does not accept the first modified deposit request;

receiving acknowledgement over the network at the server of the second modified deposit request from the customer if the customer accepts the second modified deposit terms at the interface; and

thereafter automatically executing the second modified deposit request upon customer acceptance of the second modified deposit request within a predetermined period of time.

36. The method of claim 35, further comprising communicating directly with the customer through the interface.

37. The method of claim 36, wherein communicating directly with the customer is conducted with a live chat feature.

38. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

determining at the server whether the specific rate specified in the deposit request is an indicative rate;

transmitting a modified deposit request comprising a modified rate from the server over the network to the customer at the interface, if the specific rate in the deposit request is the indicative rate,

wherein further the modified deposit request is automatically executed if the customer accepts the modified deposit request at the interface in a predetermined period of time.

39. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

validating at the server whether the deposit terms are consistent following modifications by the customer;

generating a request from the server over the network for the customer at the interface to alter the deposit terms to be consistent.

40. A computer implemented method of conducting banking deposit transactions through a network between a bank and its customers, the computer implemented method comprising:

providing a interface, comprising at least a computer processor, wherein the interface provides access to a network to which a customer has access;

linking a server to the interface over the network;

transmitting deposit terms from the server over the network to the customer at the interface, the deposit terms including value dates, tenors and rates at which the bank will execute a deposit for a given currency;

receiving at the server over the network a deposit request generated by the customer at the interface in response to the deposit terms, the deposit request comprising a specific value date, specific tenor, specific rate and a principal amount of a deposit for the given currency; and

determining at the server whether the deposit terms specified in the received generated deposit request are within predetermined parameters set up between the customer and the bank,

wherein the deposit request is automatically executed upon the specific rate in the generated deposit request matching a live rate and the deposit terms being within the predetermined parameters,

wherein further the principal amount of the deposit is deposited by the bank at the specific value date, specific tenor and specific rate specified in the executed received generated deposit request in an account of the customer, wherein funds are designated by the customer to settle the deposit that comprise a principal amount and interest generated by a previous deposit of the customer with the bank that has matured.

41. A computer implemented method of conducting banking deposit transactions through a network between a bank and its customers, the computer implemented method comprising:

providing a interface, comprising at least a computer processor, wherein the interface provides access to a network to which a customer has access;

linking a server to the interface over the network;

transmitting deposit terms from the server over the network to the customer at the interface, the deposit terms including value dates, tenors and rates at which the bank will execute a deposit for a given currency;

receiving over the network at the server a deposit request generated by the customer at the interface in response to the deposit terms, the deposit request comprising a specific value date, specific tenor, specific rate and a principal amount of a deposit for the given currency; and

determining at the server whether the deposit terms specified in the received generated deposit request are within predetermined parameters set up between the customer and the bank; and

receiving instructions at the server from the customer through the interface over the network to rollover funds from a deposit of the customer with the bank that has matured to fund the current deposit request;

wherein the deposit request is automatically executed upon the specific rate in the generated deposit request matching a live rate and the deposit terms being within the predetermined parameters,

wherein further the principal amount of the deposit is deposited by the bank at the specific value date, specific tenor and specific rate specified in the executed received generated deposit request in an account of the customer.

42. A computer implemented method of conducting banking deposit transactions through a network between a bank and its customers, the computer implemented method comprising:

providing a interface, comprising at least a computer processor, wherein the interface provides access to a network to which a customer has access;

linking a server to the interface over the network;

transmitting deposit terms from the server over the network to the customer at the interface, the deposit terms including value dates, tenors and rates at which the bank will execute a deposit in U.S. dollars;

receiving at the server over the network a deposit request generated by the customer at the interface in response to the deposit terms, the deposit request comprising a specific value date, specific tenor, specific rate and a principal amount of a deposit in U.S. dollars;

determining at the server whether the deposit terms specified in the received generated deposit request are within predetermined parameters set up between the customer and the bank; and

determining at the server whether the deposit request has been made within a predetermined amount of time following the transmission of the deposit terms to the customer;

wherein the deposit request is automatically executed upon the specific rate in the generated deposit request matching a live rate, the deposit terms being within the predetermined parameters and the deposit request being made within the predetermined amount of time,

wherein further the principal amount of the deposit is deposited by the bank at the specific value date, specific tenor and specific rate specified in the executed received generated deposit request in an account of the customer,

wherein further funds are transferred to the bank from a settlement account of the customer to settle the deposit according to settlement instructions communicated between the customer and the bank,

wherein further the principal and interest earned by the deposit are deposited into the settlement account following the end of the term of the deposit.