System, method and program product for administering fund movements using depository institution groups

• US 8,458,089 B1
• Filed: 02/22/2011
• Issued: 06/04/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Island Intellectual Property LLC (Double Rock Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Island Intellectual Property LLC (Double Rock Corporation)
• Inventors: Gareis, David Edgar
• Primary Examiner(s): Subramanian, Narayanswamy
• Application Number:
  US13/032,456
• Time in Patent Office: 833 Days
• Field of Search: 705/35, 705 39- 42, 705/45, 235/379, 235/380, 235/385, 235/437, 235/470
• US Class Current: 705/39
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/02 Banking, e.g. interest calculation or account maintenance credit or loans G06Q40/03

Abstract

A method, system and program product, the method comprising: obtaining at or before a first source reception cutoff time, first client account transaction information; obtaining a respective net transfer amount; selecting respective aggregated deposit account in depository institution in a first group based on selection rules, first group having recipient cutoff times in a first time range; generating transfer data; obtaining at or before a second source reception cutoff time, second client account transaction information; selecting an aggregated deposit account in a depository institution in a second group to deposit/transferor withdraw/transfer funds, based on selection rules, the second group having respective cutoff times in a second time range different from the first time range; generating transfer data; allocating funds from multiple of the client accounts to the transfers; and updating databases.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

accessing, using one or more computers, one or more electronic databases, stored on one or more computer-readable media, comprising;

(i) aggregated account information for a plurality of government-backed insured and interest-bearing aggregated deposit accounts held in a plurality of recipient depository institutions, comprising a balance of funds held in each of the aggregated deposit accounts, wherein funds from a plurality of client accounts are aggregated with funds of other client accounts in the aggregated deposit accounts, wherein each of multiple of the depository institutions has one or more respective cutoff times;

(ii) source institution information comprising an amount of funds sourced to a program from each of a plurality of respective source institution, wherein multiple of the source institutions are also depository institutions and/or are affiliated with one or more of the depository institutions;

(iii) client account information for each of a plurality of the respective client accounts comprising at least a respective balance of funds from the respective client account held in each of one or more of the recipient depository institutions in the interest-bearing aggregated deposit accounts holding funds of the respective client account;

obtaining at or before a first source reception cutoff time, first client account transaction information comprising credit information and/or debit information applied to or against respective client accounts for one or more first sub periods of time for a first set of one or more of the source institutions;

obtaining, using the one or more computers, a respective first net transfer amount for one or more of the first sub-periods of time for respective ones in the first set of one or more of the respective source institutions based at least in part on the first client account transaction information;

selecting at least one respective aggregated deposit account in at least one respective depository institution in a first group comprising a first plurality of the recipient depository institutions, to which to deposit/transfer or to withdraw/transfer funds, based at least in part on one or more selection rules, wherein the first group comprises recipient depository institutions with respective recipient cutoff times in a first time range;

generating transfer data, using the one or more computers, reflecting a transfer of at least one first transfer amount to or from the at least one recipient depository institution that was selected;

obtaining at or before a second source reception cutoff time that is after the first source reception cutoff time, second client account transaction information comprising credit information and/or debit information applied to or against respective client accounts for the one or more second sub periods of time for a second set of one or more of the source institutions;

obtaining, using the one or more computers, a respective second net transfer amount for the one or more of the second sub-periods of time for respective ones in a second set of one or more of the source institutions based at least in part on the second client account transaction information, where some or all of the one or more second sub periods of time may be the same as or different from the one or more first sub periods of time, and wherein the first and second sets of one or more of the source institutions may be different, or the same or partially overlap;

selecting at least one aggregated deposit account in at least one depository institution in a second group comprising a second plurality of the recipient depository institutions, to which to deposit/transfer or to withdraw/transfer funds, based at least in part on one or more selection rules, wherein the second group comprises recipient depository institutions with respective recipient cutoff times in a second time range that is different from the first time range;

generating transfer data, using the one or more computers, reflecting a transfer of at least one second transfer amount to the at least one aggregated deposit account selected from the second group of one or more of the recipient depository institutions;

allocating, using the one or more computers, amounts of funds from multiple of the client accounts among multiple of the recipient depository institutions, so that the respective balance of funds in each of the aggregated deposit accounts of the multiple of the recipient depository institutions, after taking into consideration the fund transfer amounts for the first and second sub periods of time, will substantially match a sum of the respective balances of funds from the multiple of the respective client accounts allocated to this respective aggregated deposit account; and

updating or having updated, using the one or more computers, the one or more electronic databases to reflect the allocating of the amounts of funds of the multiple client accounts to the recipient depository institutions.

2. The method as defined in claim 1, where at least multiple of the recipient depository institutions in the second group are different from the recipient depository institutions in the first group.

3. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the first time range of recipient cutoff times is overlapping with the second time range of recipient cutoff times, but ends before the second time range of recipient cutoff times.

4. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the first time range of recipient cutoff times is not overlapping with the second time range of recipient cutoff times, and ends before a beginning of the second time range of recipient cutoff times.

5. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein multiple of the source institutions are also recipient depository institutions.

6. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein multiple of the source institutions are affiliated with one or more of the recipient depository institutions, and wherein one of the one or more selection rules is to transfer fund of respective source institutions only to recipient depository institutions that are affiliated therewith, if possible.

7. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein some of the fund transfers are deposited/transferred to one or more money fund accounts.

8. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein some of the fund transfers are deposited/transferred to one or more uninsured aggregated investment vehicles.

9. The method as defined in claim 1, further comprising:

obtaining at or before a third source reception cutoff time, third client account transaction information comprising credit information and/or debit information applied to or against respective client accounts for one or more third sub periods of time for a third set of one or more of the source institutions;

obtaining, using the one or more computers, a respective net transfer amount for the one or more third sub-periods of time for the third set of one or more of the source institutions based at least in part on the third client account transaction information;

selecting at least one respective aggregated deposit account in at least one of the respective depository institutions in a third group, to which to deposit/transfer or to withdraw/transfer funds, based at least in part on one or more selection rules, wherein the third group comprises one or more of the recipient depository institutions with respective recipient cutoff times in a third time range;

and generating transfer data, using the one or more computers, reflecting a transfer of at least one third transfer amount to the at least one aggregated deposit account selected from the third group of one or more of the recipient depository institutions.

10. The method as defined in claim 1, further comprising:

selecting depository institutions for at least one of the groups so that all of the depository institutions in this group are in the same time zone.

11. The method as defined in claim 10, wherein each of multiple of the depository institutions has a maximum cap, and

further comprising:

selecting depository institutions for at least the second group to be in the same time zone and so that a sum of the maximum caps of the respective depository institutions selected for the second group equals or exceeds a threshold amount.

12. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein each of multiple of the depository institutions has a maximum cap, and

further comprising:

selecting depository institutions for at least one of the groups so that a sum of the maximum caps of the respective depository institutions selected for this group equals or exceeds a threshold amount.

13. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the generating transfer data steps comprise:

determining one or more of the transfer amounts for one or more of the recipient depository institutions based, at least in part, on one or more parameters.

14. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the government backed insurance is Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation insurance.

15. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein at least one of the recipient depository institutions is in at least two of the groups.

16. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the one or more databases comprise information on the cutoff times of multiple of the recipient depository institutions, and further comprising accessing that information on the cutoff times by the one or more computers.

17. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein at least one of the source institutions has both first client account transaction information and second client account transaction information.

18. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the first source reception cutoff time and/or the second source reception cutoff time varies from day to day.

19. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein one or more of the recipient depository institution cutoff times varies from time period to time period.

20. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the recipient depository institutions in the first group and/or the second group vary from time period to time period.

21. A system, comprising:

one or more computers comprising memory wherein the memory stores computer-readable instructions comprising program code that, when executed, cause the one or more computers to perform the steps;

accessing, using the one or more computers, one or more electronic databases, stored on one or more computer-readable media, comprising;

(i) aggregated account information for a plurality of government-backed insured and interest-bearing aggregated deposit accounts held in a plurality of recipient depository institutions, comprising a balance of funds held in each of the aggregated deposit accounts, wherein funds from a plurality of client accounts are aggregated with funds of other client accounts in the aggregated deposit accounts, wherein each of multiple of the depository institutions has one or more respective cutoff times;

(ii) source institution information comprising an amount of funds sourced to a program from each of a plurality of respective source institution, wherein multiple of the source institutions are also depository institutions and/or are affiliated with one or more of the depository institutions;

(iii) client account information for each of a plurality of the respective client accounts comprising at least a respective balance of funds from the respective client account held in each of one or more of the recipient depository institutions in the interest-bearing aggregated deposit accounts holding funds of the respective client account;

obtaining at or before a first source reception cutoff time, on the one or more computers, first client account transaction information comprising credit information and/or debit information applied to or against respective client accounts for one or more first sub periods of time for a first set of one or more of the source institutions;

obtaining, on the one or more computers, a respective first net transfer amount for one or more of the first sub-periods of time for respective ones in the first set of one or more of the respective source institutions based at least in part on the first client account transaction information;

selecting, using the one or more computers, at least one respective aggregated deposit account in at least one respective depository institution in a first group comprising a first plurality of the recipient depository institutions, to which to deposit/transfer or to withdraw/transfer funds, based at least in part on one or more selection rules, wherein the first group comprises recipient depository institutions with respective recipient cutoff times in a first time range;

generating transfer data, using the one or more computers, reflecting a transfer of at least one first transfer amount to or from the at least one recipient depository institution that was selected;

obtaining at or before a second source reception cutoff time that is after the first source reception cutoff time, on the one or more computers, second client account transaction information comprising credit information and/or debit information applied to or against respective client accounts for the one or more second sub periods of time for a second set of one or more of the source institutions;

obtaining, on the one or more computers, a respective second net transfer amount for the one or more of the second sub-periods of time for respective ones in a second set of one or more of the source institutions based at least in part on the second client account transaction information, where some or all of the one or more second sub periods of time may be the same as or different from the one or more first sub periods of time, and wherein the first and second sets of one or more of the source institutions may be different, or the same or partially overlap;

selecting, using the one or more computers, at least one aggregated deposit account in at least one depository institution in a second group comprising a second plurality of the recipient depository institutions, to which to deposit/transfer or to withdraw/transfer funds, based at least in part on one or more selection rules, wherein the second group comprises recipient depository institutions with respective recipient cutoff times in a second time range that is different from the first time range;

generating transfer data, using the one or more computers, reflecting a transfer of at least one second transfer amount to the at least one aggregated deposit account selected from the second group of one or more of the recipient depository institutions;

allocating, using the one or more computers, amounts of funds from multiple of the client accounts among multiple of the recipient depository institutions, so that the respective balance of funds in each of the aggregated deposit accounts of the multiple of the recipient depository institutions, after taking into consideration the fund transfer amounts for the first and second sub periods of time, will substantially match a sum of the respective balances of funds from the multiple of the respective client accounts allocated to this respective aggregated deposit account; and

updating or having updated, using the one or more computers, the one or more electronic databases to reflect the allocating of the amounts of funds of the multiple client accounts to the recipient depository institutions.