Receipt visualization and receipt data applications

• US 8,429,038 B1
• Filed: 10/31/2011
• Issued: 04/23/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intuit, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Intuit, Inc.
• Inventors: Harman, Susan A., Char, Ronald J., Zafar, Abraham, Sitapara, Ojas R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Zeender, Ryan
• Assistant Examiner(s): CHEIN, ALLEN C
• Application Number:
  US13/286,101
• Time in Patent Office: 540 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 705/30
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/047 using payment protocols involving electronic receipts
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/10 specially adapted for electronic funds transfer [EFT] systems; specially adapted for home banking systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/20 Point-of-sale [POS] network systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/209 Specified transaction journal output feature, e.g. printed receipt or voice output
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/02 Banking, e.g. interest calculation or account maintenance credit or loans G06Q40/03
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/12 Accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/14 Systems including one or more distant stations co-operating with a central processing unit data transmission in general H04L; telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station H04Q9/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 5/00 Receipt-giving machines cash registers giving receipts G07G1/00

Abstract

Visually presenting spending behavior, spending patterns, and spending activity to a consumer across of their all receipt based purchase transactions. Receipt data is received at a first or host computer from respective transaction processing devices or host systems of respective merchants, or received from self-service action of the consumer, and identifies respective goods or services purchased by the consumer. A user interface is displayed to the consumer and comprises a thumbnail arrangement of discrete objects, each of which represents respective receipts generated by respective transaction or transaction processing devices. A discrete object may comprise data of one or multiple goods or services and includes category indicators that visually inform the consumer about the type of good or service. Embodiments may also involve requesting receipt data utilizing a mobile communication device, searching receipt data collected by the computer and responding to the request with requested receipt data.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of visually presenting spending activity to a consumer, the method comprising:

receiving, at a first computer, respective electronic receipt data from respective transaction processing devices of respective merchants, the respective electronic receipt data identifying purchases of respective goods or services by the consumer from respective merchants; and

generating a user interface with a receipt program executing on the first computer, the user interface comprising;

a first view generated by the receipt program and comprising a thumbnail arrangement of a plurality of discrete objects that represent respective receipts generated by respective transaction processing devices, the thumbnail arrangement comprising;

a first field populated by the receipt program and comprising a total number of receipts represented by the plurality of discrete objects,

a second field populated by the receipt program and comprising a sum of respective numbers of goods or services identified by respective receipt data, and

a third field populated by the receipt program and comprising a sum of respective total amounts of respective purchases identified by respective receipt data, the discrete objects being separated from the first field, the second field and the third field; and

a second view generated by the receipt program and displayed in response to the consumer selecting or opening a discrete object displayed in the first view, wherein an indicator of a category of spending activity of the consumer is displayed in both the first view and in the second view.

2. The method of claim 1, the category indicator comprising a color-coded or symbolic indicator.

3. The method of claim 1, a plurality of category indicators of spending activity of the consumer being displayed in the first view and in the second view.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein more information and more types of information about spending activity of the consumer are displayed in the second view compared to object data displayed in the first view.

5. The method of claim 1, each discrete object comprising a portion of data of information included in a paper receipt provided to the consumer for purchase of a good or service from a merchant.

6. The method of claim 1, at least one discrete object displayed in the first view comprising a category indicator but not identifying any particular good or service.

7. The method of claim 1, at least one discrete object comprising a plurality of category indicators but not identifying a particular good or service.

8. The method of claim 1, the user interface being displayed on a second computer to the consumer.

9. A computer-implemented method of visually presenting spending activity to a consumer, the method comprising:

receiving, at a first computer, respective electronic receipt data from respective transaction processing devices of respective merchants, the respective electronic receipt data identifying purchases of respective goods or services by the consumer from respective merchants; and

generating a user interface with a receipt program executing on the first computer, the user interface comprising

a first view generated by the receipt program and comprising a thumbnail arrangement of a plurality of discrete objects that represent respective receipts generated by respective transaction processing devices, the thumbnail arrangement comprising;

a first field populated by the receipt program and comprising a total number of receipts represented by the plurality of discrete objects,

a second field populated by the receipt program and comprising a sum of respective numbers of goods or services identified by respective receipt data, and

a third field populated by the receipt program and comprising a sum of respective total amounts of respective purchases identified by respective receipt data, the discrete objects being separated from the first field, the second field and the third field; and

a second view generated by the receive program and displayed in response to the consumer selecting or opening an discrete object of the first view, wherein an indicator of a category of spending activity of the consumer is displayed in both the first view and the second view, and item-level data identifying a particular good or service purchased by the consumer is displayed in the second view but not the first view.

10. The method of claim 9, the category indicator comprising a color-coded or symbolic indicator.

11. The method of claim 9, a plurality of category indicators being displayed in the first view and in the second view.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein more information and more types of information about spending activity of the consumer are displayed in the second view compared to object data in the first view.

13. The method of claim 9, each discrete object comprising a portion of data of information included in a paper receipt provided to the consumer for purchase of a good or service from a merchant.

14. The method of claim 9, at least one discrete object displayed in the first view comprising a category indicator but not identifying any particular good or service.

15. The method of claim 9, at least one discrete object comprising a plurality of category indicators but not identifying a particular good or service.

16. The method of claim 9, wherein the category indicator is displayed in a discrete object displayed in the first view and in the second view generated by selection of the discrete object.

17. The method of claim 9, the user interface being displayed on a second computer to the consumer.