Billing statement customer acquisition system
First Claim
1. A system, comprising:
- a memory storing information about user accounts, wherein the information comprises transaction history and an account identifier; and
a processor configured fordetermining a bill due date for a preexisting financial obligation owed by a user to an entity;
generating an offer to the user that expires before the bill due date;
providing the offer to the user, wherein the offer requires the user to spend a minimum dollar amount with a different entity in exchange for the different entity paying an amount of the preexisting financial obligation owed by the user to the entity; and
transmitting the offer electronically to the user.
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Abstract
Some described embodiments provide for selecting (e.g., by a server computer from a plurality of transaction records), a transaction record associated with a financial account of an account holder. In one example, the transaction record includes an indication of an amount due, by the account holder, for a previous purchase completed by the account holder with a first merchant. Some embodiments provide further for generating a billing statement for the account holder, the billing statement including an indication of the amount due by the account holder for the previous completed purchase and an indication of an acquisition offer, in which the acquisition offer comprises a promise from a second merchant to pay at least a portion of the amount due by the account holder, and transmitting the billing statement to the account holder.
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22 Claims
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1. A system, comprising:
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a memory storing information about user accounts, wherein the information comprises transaction history and an account identifier; and a processor configured for determining a bill due date for a preexisting financial obligation owed by a user to an entity; generating an offer to the user that expires before the bill due date; providing the offer to the user, wherein the offer requires the user to spend a minimum dollar amount with a different entity in exchange for the different entity paying an amount of the preexisting financial obligation owed by the user to the entity; and transmitting the offer electronically to the user. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 20)
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11. A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising a plurality of machine-readable instructions which when executed by one or more processors of a server are adapted to cause the server to perform a method comprising:
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determining bill due date for a preexisting financial obligation owed by a user to an entity; generating an offer to the user that expires before the bill due date; providing the offer to the user, wherein the offer requires the user to spend a minimum dollar amount with a different entity in exchange for the different entity paying an amount of the preexisting financial obligation owed by the user to the entity; and transmitting the offer electronically to the user. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21)
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19. A method, comprising:
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determining, electronically by a processor of a service provider, a bill due date for a preexisting financial obligation owed by a user to an entity; generating, electronically by the processor, an offer to the user that expires before the bill due date; and providing, electronically by the processor, the offer to the user, wherein the offer requires the user to spend a minimum dollar amount with a different entity in exchange for the different entity paying an amount of the preexisting financial obligation owed by the user to the entity. - View Dependent Claims (22)
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