System and method for associating financial transaction data with user's project data using a portable electronic device

• US 8,515,836 B1
• Filed: 02/05/2013
• Issued: 08/20/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. (JP Morgan Chase & Co)
• Original Assignee: JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. (JP Morgan Chase & Co)
• Inventors: Keld, Marcia
• Primary Examiner(s): Goyea, Olusegun
• Application Number:
  US13/759,546
• Time in Patent Office: 196 Days
• Field of Search: 705/16, 705/21, 705/26.1, 705/39, 705/41, 705/42, 707/999.01, 707/999.03, 235/379
• US Class Current: 705/28
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/00 Payment architectures, schemes or protocols apparatus for performing or posting payment transactions G07F7/08, G07F19/00; electronic cash registers G07G1/12
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/02 involving a neutral party, e.g. certification authority, notary or trusted third party [TTP]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/10 specially adapted for electronic funds transfer [EFT] systems; specially adapted for home banking systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/105 involving programming of a portable memory device, e.g. IC cards, "electronic purses"
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/108 Remote banking, e.g. home banking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/14 specially adapted for billing systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/20 Point-of-sale [POS] network systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/203 Inventory monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/227 characterised in that multiple accounts are available, e.g. to the payer
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• 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 40/10 Tax strategies
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/12 Accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/12 electronically operated digital data processing aspects G06Q20/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality

Abstract

This invention relates to a system for viewing and manipulating a user'"'"'s financial transaction data and a method for associating financial transaction data with a user'"'"'s project data using a portable electronic device.

Claims

1. A system for viewing and manipulating a user'"'"'s financial transaction data using a portable electronic device, comprising:

a computer processor connected to a data storage unit, the data storage unit for hosting a user'"'"'s financial transaction data, addressable on a network, and accessible by a remote user on a portable electronic device having a user input means and a display; and

an application executed by a processor of the portable electronic device, the application comprising;

a transaction retrieval component operable to access the user'"'"'s financial transaction data and generate representations thereof viewable by a user on the display;

a category generation engine operable to generate user-defined project category data and representations thereof viewable to a user on the display;

a transaction categorization engine operable to associate selected ones of the user'"'"'s financial transaction data representations with one or more of the user-defined project category data representations, wherein the transaction categorization engine is further operable to associate a percentage or portion of the user'"'"'s financial transaction data with one or more of the user-defined project category data for a single transaction; and

a data record generation engine operable to convert the graphical arrangement into a data record, wherein the data record is in a form suitable for at least one of review, storage, modifications, analysis, or exportation.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the user'"'"'s financial transaction data includes any one or more of:

credit card transaction data, purchase data, product data, product quantity data, purchase date data, purchase price data, vendor name data, vendor part number data, product name data, stock keeping unit (SKU) number data, tax data, discount data, receipt number data, universal product code data, barcode data, fee data, interest rate data, interest data, balance data, debit card transaction data, check data, line of credit access card data, line of credit transaction card data, and balance transfer data.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the transaction categorization engine is further operable to dis-associate selected ones of the user'"'"'s financial transaction representations associated with one or more of the user-defined project category representations.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the financial transaction data is associated with at least one purchase made by the user.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the financial transaction data is associated with at least one purchase made by someone other than the user.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the financial transaction data is associated with at least one purchase made by an employee of the user.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the financial transaction data includes information relating to at least one of:

employee transaction data, employee spending limit data, and employee account balance data.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the data record is converted into a report viewable by the user on the display of the portable electronic device.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the report indicates whether a spending limit has been exceeded.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the report indicates whether an employee account balance is negative.

17. The system of claim 12, wherein:

the portable electronic device is capable of exchanging location information with a second portable electronic device; and

the financial transaction data further includes real-time location information associated with the at least one purchase made by the employee of the user.

4. A computer implemented method for expense reporting, the method comprising:

accessing, using a portable electronic device connected to a network, a user'"'"'s financial transaction data;

displaying representations of the accessed user'"'"'s financial transaction data on a display of the portable electronic device;

defining, by a computer processor, project category data and generating representations thereof displayable on the display of the portable electronic device;

associating, by the computer processor, the user'"'"'s financial transaction data with user-defined project category data, including associating a desired percentage or portion of the user'"'"'s financial transaction data with one or more of the user-defined project category data for a single transaction; and

creating a data record having the user'"'"'s financial transaction data with user-defined project category data, wherein the data record is in a form suitable for at least one of;

review, storage, modification, analysis, and exportation.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

enabling a user to at least one of;

review a data record, modify a data record, store a data record, analyze a data record, and export a data record.

6. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

dis-associating selected ones of the user'"'"'s financial transaction data from one or more associated user-defined project category data.

7. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

generating a bar code representing a project category.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

automatically associating a user-defined project category represented by the bar code with the user'"'"'s financial transaction data.

9. The method of claim 4, wherein the user'"'"'s financial transaction data includes one or more of:

purchase data, product data, produce quantity data, purchase date data, purchase price data, vendor name data, vendor part number data, product name data, stock keeping unit (SKU) number data, tax data, discount data, receipt number data, universal product code data, barcode data, fee data, interest rate data, interest data, balance data, credit card data, debit card data, check data, line of credit access card data, line of credit transaction card data, and balance transfer data, employee data, contractor data, balance data, spending limit data.

18. The method of claim 4, further comprising associating the financial transaction data with at least one purchase made by the user.

19. The method of claim 4, further comprising associating the financial transaction data with at least one purchase made by someone other than the user.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising associating the financial transaction data with at least one purchase made by an employee of the user.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the financial transaction data further includes information relating to at least one of:

employee transaction data, employee spending limit data, and employee account balance data.

22. The method of claim 21, further comprising converting the data record into a report, the report being viewable by the user on the display of the portable electronic device.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the report indicates whether a spending limit has been exceeded.

24. The method of claim 22, wherein the report indicates whether an employee account balance is negative.

25. The method of claim 20, further comprising:

exchanging location information between the portable electronic device and a second portable electronic device; and

associating real-time location information with the at least one purchase made by the employee of the user.