Money fund banking system

• US 7,809,640 B1
• Filed: 08/16/2007
• Issued: 10/05/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/21/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Island Intellectual Property LLC (Double Rock Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Island Intellectual Property LLC (Double Rock Corporation)
• Inventors: Bent, Bruce, Bent, Bruce II
• Primary Examiner(s): Felten; Daniel S
• Application Number:
  US11/840,052
• Time in Patent Office: 1,146 Days
• Field of Search: 705/40
• US Class Current: 705/40
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/042 characterized in that the payment protocol involves at least one cheque
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/102 Bill distribution or payments
• 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 40/02 Banking, e.g. interest calculation or account maintenance credit or loans G06Q40/03
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance

Abstract

Providing interest to clients'"'"' deposited funds without the legal limitation on the number of demand withdrawals from deposit accounts is accomplished by an administration system that keeps all of the records for the clients'"'"' deposits and withdrawals, calculates the total of the deposits and withdrawals for all clients, and uses the calculation to determine whether funds are deposited to or withdrawn from a single deposit account in which all clients'"'"' deposit funds are kept. Clients can make unlimited withdrawals, such as by check, credit card, debit card, or electronic transfer, through the administrator. By placing the administrator as the holder of a single account, legal exemptions to the limitation on earning interest in demand accounts is facilitated.

Claims

1. A computer program product for managing a plurality of client transaction accounts for a plurality of clients at a banking institution, comprising:

at least one computer-readable medium having computer readable program code embodied therein or among them if there is more than one computer-readable medium, to be executed by a computer, the computer readable program code comprising

computer code for accessing a database maintained on one or more computer readable media and accessible by one or more computers for carrying out one or more of the following operations, wherein the database comprises information for each client transaction account, wherein client transaction account funds for the client transaction accounts are aggregated in one or more FDIC-insured and interest-bearing aggregated deposit accounts held at the banking institution, and wherein the information for each of the client transaction accounts includes information on each client'"'"'s funds held in said one or more insured and interest-bearing aggregated deposit accounts;

computer code for administering client deposits/transfers to and withdrawals/transfers from said client transaction accounts using the one or more computers, said administering step comprising processing more than six (6) withdrawals/transfers selected from the group consisting of check, debit card, ACH, and credit card within a month from each of a plurality of said client transaction accounts;

computer code for determining by the one or more computers on a regular basis at least one aggregated net transaction for a plurality of said clients comprising a sum of said clients'"'"' deposits/transfers to and withdrawals/transfers from said respective clients'"'"' transaction accounts at the banking institution;

computer code for determining by the one or more computers from said at least one aggregated net transaction whether to deposit/transfer funds to or withdraw/transfer funds from said one or more FDIC-insured and interest-bearing aggregated deposit accounts;

computer code for processing needed deposits/transfers to, or needed withdrawals/transfers from said one or more FDIC-insured and interest-bearing aggregated deposit accounts based on said determining from said at least one aggregated net transaction step, so that more than six (6) withdrawals/transfers are made during a month from one of said one or more FDIC-insured and interest-bearing aggregated deposit accounts via at least one intermediate bank that is different from the banking institution; and

computer code for updating by the one or more computers the database with each client'"'"'s deposits/transfers to and withdrawals/transfers from said each client'"'"'s respective transaction account.

2. The program product of claim 1, wherein said computer code for administering client withdrawals/transfers is designed to facilitate withdrawals by draft or check, credit card, sweeps, wire or electronic transfer and combinations thereof.

3. The program product of claim 1, further comprising computer code for denying a withdrawal transaction from one of the client transaction accounts if that client transaction account does not have sufficient funds to cover that withdrawal transaction, or access to sufficient margin or line of credit.

4. The program product of claim 1,

further comprising computer code for facilitating a manner of making said withdrawals/transfers and/or deposits/transfers from at least one of said one or more FDIC-insured and interest-bearing deposit accounts to preserve that account'"'"'s interest-bearing status regardless of the number of said withdrawals/transfers from said at least one of said one or more FDIC-insured and interest-bearing deposit accounts.

5. The program product of claim 1, further comprising computer code for distributing interest to each of the client transaction accounts in dependence on a balance in that respective client transaction account after accrual in the one or more aggregated deposit accounts.

6. The program product of claim 1,

wherein each of the plurality of clients has his/her funds accepted for deposit in the respective client transaction account held in the name of the respective client at the banking institution, the banking institution comprises a bank in infrastructure of the banking institution, and the one or more FDIC-insured and interest-bearing aggregated deposit accounts are held in the bank in the infrastructure of the banking institution.

7. The program product of claim 1,

wherein the banking institution comprises a bank in infrastructure of the banking institution, wherein the respective client funds were accepted for deposit in the respective client transaction account held in the name of the respective client, and the one or more FDIC-insured and interest-bearing aggregated deposit accounts are held in the bank in the infrastructure of the banking institution.