System and method for real time account and account number generation using origination APIS
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1. A method for creating a pre-paid debit account for a customer while the customer is purchasing services or goods from a commercial establishment, the method, comprising:
- entering customer information, by the customer, in furtherance of the purchasing services or goods from the commercial establishment through a web page of the commercial establishment;
the customer requesting the creation of the pre-paid debit account via the web page of a commercial establishment while making a purchase of the services or goods from the commercial establishment, the purchase also being made via the web page of the commercial establishment,transmitting, to a financial services provider server, applicant data formatted according to an application programming interface (API),wherein, the applicant data describes the customer requesting creation of the pre-paid debit account;
wherein, the applicant data transmitted to the financial services provider server to be used for fulfilling the customer request is limited only to the customer information that was already entered by the customer in furtherance of the purchasing the services or goods from the commercial establishment through the web page of the commercial establishment thus obviating a need for the customer to re-enter the customer information in furtherance of the purchase;
receiving, at the financial services provider server, the applicant data of the customer;
generating, by the financial services provider server, the pre-paid debit account;
wherein the customer is able to use the pre-paid debit account that has been requested by the customer and generated by the financial services provider server to purchase the services or goods from the commercial establishment.
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Abstract
A system and method generate an account in real time in accordance with an application programming interface (API). The API contains parameter descriptions listing universal resource locator (URL) parameters associated with items. A format for implementing an http request to transmit data to in compliance with the defined format is disclosed. A transparent mode for transmitting a response to an http request transmitting data provides for the transmission of an extensible markup language (XML) formatted file communicating an outcome to the request.
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1. A method for creating a pre-paid debit account for a customer while the customer is purchasing services or goods from a commercial establishment, the method, comprising:
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entering customer information, by the customer, in furtherance of the purchasing services or goods from the commercial establishment through a web page of the commercial establishment; the customer requesting the creation of the pre-paid debit account via the web page of a commercial establishment while making a purchase of the services or goods from the commercial establishment, the purchase also being made via the web page of the commercial establishment, transmitting, to a financial services provider server, applicant data formatted according to an application programming interface (API), wherein, the applicant data describes the customer requesting creation of the pre-paid debit account; wherein, the applicant data transmitted to the financial services provider server to be used for fulfilling the customer request is limited only to the customer information that was already entered by the customer in furtherance of the purchasing the services or goods from the commercial establishment through the web page of the commercial establishment thus obviating a need for the customer to re-enter the customer information in furtherance of the purchase; receiving, at the financial services provider server, the applicant data of the customer; generating, by the financial services provider server, the pre-paid debit account; wherein the customer is able to use the pre-paid debit account that has been requested by the customer and generated by the financial services provider server to purchase the services or goods from the commercial establishment. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A system for creating an account for a customer of a commercial establishment in real time, the system, comprising:
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a first computing device associated with the commercial establishment, the first computing device configured to; receive customer information, entered by the customer, via a web page of the commercial establishment, in furtherance of the purchasing services or goods from the commercial establishment; receive a request, from the customer, to create a pre-paid debit account via the web page of the commercial establishment while making a purchase of the services or goods from the commercial establishment, the purchase being made via the web page of the commercial establishment; transmit, to a financial services provide server, applicant data formatted according to an application programming interface (API), wherein the applicant data describes the customer requesting creation of the prepaid debit account; a second computing device associated with a financial services provider the second computing device configured to; receives an application from the first computing device for a prepaid debit account including applicant data for creation of the pre-paid debit account; wherein, the applicant data included within the application transmitted by the first computing device and received by the second computing device is limited only to customer information that was already entered by the customer in furtherance of the purchasing the services or goods from the commercial establishment through the web page of the commercial establishment thus obviating the need to re-enter the applicant data for the financial services provider server; generates the pre-paid debit account; wherein the customer is able to use the pre-paid debit account generated by the financial services provider server to purchase the services or goods from the commercial establishment. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium including instructions that when executed cause a computing device to perform a method to create a pre-paid debit account for a customer, the method, comprising:
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entering customer information, by a customer, in furtherance of purchasing services or goods from the commercial establishment through the web page of the commercial establishment; the customer requesting the creation of the pre-paid debit account via a web page of a commercial establishment while making a purchase from the commercial establishment, the purchase also being made via the web page of the commercial establishment; transmitting, to a financial services provider server, applicant data formatted according to an application programming interface (API); wherein the applicant data describes the customer requesting creation of the pre-paid debit account; wherein, the applicant data transmitted to the financial services provider server to be used for fulfilling the customer request is limited only to customer information that was already entered by the customer in furtherance of the purchasing the services or goods from the commercial establishment through the web page of the commercial establishment thus obviating a need for the customer to re-enter the customer information in furtherance of the purchase; receiving, at the financial services provider server, the applicant data of the customer; the financial services provider server using the applicant data to create the pre-paid debit account; wherein, the customer is able to use the pre-paid debit account that has been requested by the customer and generated by the financial services provider server to purchase the services or goods from the commercial establishment. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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