Method of and system for capturing interest earned on the monetary value of transferred monetary rights managed on an internet-based monetary rights transfer (MRT) network supported by a real-time gross settlement (RTGS) system

• US 8,626,626 B2
• Filed: 06/30/2011
• Issued: 01/07/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/09/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Interest Capturing Systems LLC
• Original Assignee: Interest Capturing Systems LLC
• Inventors: Hardison, Joseph H. III
• Primary Examiner(s): Monfeldt, Sarah M
• Assistant Examiner(s): SCARITO, JOHN D
• Application Number:
  US13/173,376
• Publication Number:
  US 20120016782A1
• Time in Patent Office: 922 Days
• Field of Search: 705/35, 705/39
• US Class Current: 705/35
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/023 the neutral party being a clearing house
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/10 specially adapted for electronic funds transfer [EFT] systems; specially adapted for home banking systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/02 Banking, e.g. interest calculation or account maintenance credit or loans G06Q40/03
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/10 Tax strategies
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/12 Accounting

Abstract

Method of capturing interest associated with a whole or partial amount of money possessed or controlled by an owner/holder and held in a first account maintained by a home financial institution, associated with a monetary rights transfer (MRT) network operably connected to the infrastructure of the Internet and a real-time gross settlement (RTGS) system, and the home financial institution or an external financial institution associated with the MRT network, maintaining a second account, interest bearing, for the owner/holder of the amount of money to capture interest.

Claims

1. A method of capturing interest, said method comprising:

(a) providing an internet-based monetary rights transfer (MRT) network that recognizes and accounts for an unbundled and individually transferable set of monetary rights associated with an amount of money, said unbundled and individually transferable set of monetary rights (R (α

. . . τ

, $)) selected from the group consisting of;

a monetary right to invest (R (α

, $)), a monetary right to earn interest (R (β

, $)), a monetary right to use as collateral (R (χ

, $)), a monetary right to hold as a store of value (R (δ

, $)), a monetary right to make purchases (R (ε

, $)), a monetary right to make payments (R, (φ

, $)), a monetary right to lend (R (γ

, $)), a monetary right to borrow (R (η

, $)), and a monetary right to gift (R (τ

, $));

(b) embedding said internet-based MRT network into a real time gross settlement (RTGS) system controlled by a central bank of a country, wherein said RTGS system record debits and credits between central bank accounts maintained by different financial institutions at the central bank;

(c) registering a home financial institution and an external financial institution as participating financial institutions with said internet-based MRT network;

(d) registering said home financial institution and said external financial institution with said central bank, wherein said central bank maintains a home financial institution central bank account and an external financial institution central bank account;

(e) maintaining, by said home financial institution, a first account which holds a monetary amount for an MRT network user, and wherein said MRT network user is an owner or holder of said monetary amount;

(f) maintaining, by said external financial institution, a second account for said MRT network user;

(g) transferring by said MRT network user, via an enterprise level computer network of said internet-based MRT network, a subset of monetary rights associated with a monetary value held at said first account to said second account, wherein said subset of monetary rights comprises one or more of said monetary right to invest (R (α

, $)), said monetary right to earn interest (R (β

, $)), and said monetary right to lend (R (γ

, $)), and wherein said monetary value comprises the whole monetary value or a partial monetary value of the monetary amount held at said first account;

(h) instantly recording, via said RTGS system, a debit equal to said monetary value in said home financial institution central bank account and a credit equal to said monetary value in said external financial institution central bank account, upon the RTGS system receiving notice from the internet-based MRT network that a non-transferred subset of monetary rights associated with said monetary value remains at said first account serving as full, non-leveraged collateral for said transferred subset of monetary rights;

(i) lending or investing a cash amount, by said external financial institution, to earn a return, wherein said cash amount is based on the monetary value credited to said external financial institution central bank account;

(j) earning, by said MRT network user, an interest amount on the monetary value associated with said transferred subset of monetary rights;

(k) receiving, via said internet-based MRT network, by said external financial institution a request to transfer the earned interest amount from said second account to said first account;

(l) capturing said interest amount by recording, via said RTGS system, a debit equal to a monetary value of said interest amount in said external financial institution central bank account and a credit equal to said monetary value of said interest amount in said home financial institution central bank account.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said central bank is the United States Federal Reserve Bank, said country is the United States of America, and said RTGS system is the Fedwire RTGS system.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

while said subset of monetary rights is transferred to said second account, exercising, by said MRT network user, one or more of the non-transferred subset of monetary rights associated with said monetary value held at said first account, and

automatically and commensurately reducing, via said internet-based MRT network, the monetary value associated with said subset of monetary rights transferred to said second account.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

upon the monetary value associated with said transferred subset of monetary rights being automatically reduced, automatically transferring the earned interest amount to said first account via steps (k) and (l).

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

while said subset of monetary rights is transferred to said second account, exercising, by said MRT network user, said monetary right to make purchases (R (ε

, $)) by executing a demand transaction on said first account for a purchase amount,

automatically reducing, via said internet-based MRT network, the monetary value associated with said subset of monetary rights transferred to said second account by the monetary value of the purchase amount; and

simultaneously reducing the monetary amount held at said first account by the purchase amount.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

while said subset of monetary rights is transferred to said second account, exercising, by said MRT network user, said monetary right to make payments (R (φ

, $)) by executing a demand transaction on said first account for a bill pay amount,

automatically reducing, via said internet-based MRT network, the monetary value associated with said subset of monetary rights transferred to said second account by the monetary value of the bill pay amount; and

simultaneously reducing the monetary amount held at said first account by the bill pay amount.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

while said subset of monetary rights is transferred to said second account, exercising, by said MRT network user, said monetary right to hold as a store of value (R (δ

, $)) by executing a demand transaction on said first account for a withdrawal amount,

automatically reducing, via said internet-based MRT network, the monetary value associated with said subset of monetary rights transferred to said second account by the monetary value of the withdrawal amount; and

simultaneously reducing the monetary amount held at said first account by the withdrawal amount.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein said first account is a demand account or an investment account.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein said second account is selected from the group consisting of a checking account, a savings account, a money market account, a stored value account, a brokerage account, an insurance account, a certificate of deposit, and a retirement account.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

while said subset of monetary rights is transferred to said second account, exercising, by said MRT network user, one or more of the non-transferred subset of monetary rights associated with said monetary value held at said first account by executing a demand transaction on said first account for a transaction amount,

automatically reducing, via said internet-based MRT network, the monetary value associated with said subset of monetary rights transferred to said second account by the monetary value of the transaction amount;

simultaneously reducing the monetary amount held at said first account by the transaction amount, and either (i) capturing, via steps (k) and (l), any earned interest amount associated with the monetary value of the transaction amount when its associated subset of monetary rights was transferred to said second account or (ii) allowing said any earned interest amount to remain at said second account earning a high rate of interest with any monetary value associated with said transferred subset of monetary rights remaining at said second account.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein:

(i) said home financial institution is a mortgage servicer, (ii) said first account is a mortgage escrow account, (iii) said monetary amount held in said mortgage escrow account comprises contributions made by said MRT network user for the purpose of paying mortgage principle payments, mortgage interest payments, property tax payments, and property insurance payments of said MRT network user, (iv) said second account offers an interest rate higher than said mortgage escrow account, (v) only said monetary right to earn interest (R (β

, $)) is transferred to said second account, and (vi) said non-transferred subset of monetary rights are held by said mortgage servicer;

the method further comprising;

prior to step (g), contacting, by said internet-based MRT network, said mortgage service provider to permit said MRT network user to transfer only said monetary right to earn interest (R (β

, $)) associated with said monetary amount held in said mortgage escrow account;

while said subset of monetary rights is transferred to said second account, exercising by said mortgage servicer, on behalf of said MRT network user, said monetary right to make payments (R (φ

, $)) by executing, on its due date, a demand transaction on said mortgage escrow account for a payment amount, wherein said payment amount is a mortgage principle payment amount, a mortgage interest payment amount, a property tax payment amount, or a property insurance payment amount;

automatically reducing, via said internet-based MRT network, the monetary value associated with said subset of monetary rights transferred to said second account by the monetary value of the payment amount; and

simultaneously reducing the monetary amount held at said mortgage escrow account by the payment amount;

so that said MRT network user earns the higher interest rate offered by said second account until the demand transaction is executed by said mortgage servicer on said due date.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein:

(i) said home financial institution is a payroll service provider, (ii) said first account is a payroll escrow account, (iii) said monetary amount held in said payroll escrow account comprises withholdings of said MRT network user for the purpose of paying tax payments and benefits payments of said MRT network user, (iv) said second account offers an interest rate higher than said payroll escrow account, (v) only said monetary right to earn interest (R (β

, $)) is transferred to said second account, and (vi) said non-transferred subset of monetary rights are held by said payroll service provider;

the method further comprising;

prior to step (g), contacting, by said internet-based MRT network, said payroll service provider to permit said MRT network user to transfer only said monetary right to earn interest (R (β

, $)) associated with said monetary amount held in said payroll escrow account;

while said subset of monetary rights is transferred to said second account, exercising by said payroll servicer, on behalf of said MRT network user, said monetary right to make payments (R (β

, $)) by executing, on its due date, a demand transaction on said payroll escrow account for a payment amount, wherein said payment amount is a tax payment amount or a benefit payment amount;

automatically reducing, via said internet-based MRT network, the monetary value associated with said subset of monetary rights transferred to said second account by the monetary value of the payment amount; and

simultaneously reducing the monetary amount held at said payroll escrow account by the payment amount,

so that said MRT network user earns the higher interest rate offered by said second account until the demand transaction is executed by said payroll service provider on said due date.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein:

(i) said home financial institution is a stored value product issuer (ii) said first account is an escrow account, (iii) said monetary amount held in said escrow account comprises funds loaded by said MRT network user for the purpose of paying stored value product purchase amounts, (iv) said second account offers an interest rate higher than said escrow account, and (v) only said monetary right to earn interest (R (β

, $)) is transferred to said second account;

the method further comprising;

prior to step (g), contacting, by said internet-based MRT network, said stored value product issuer to permit said MRT network user to transfer only said monetary right to earn interest (R (β

, $)) associated with said monetary amount held in said escrow account;

while said subset of monetary rights is transferred to said second account, exercising, by said MRT network user, said monetary right to make purchases (R (ε

, $)) by executing a demand transaction, via the stored value product, on said escrow account for a purchase amount,

automatically reducing, via said internet-based MRT network, the monetary value associated with said subset of monetary rights transferred to said second account by the monetary value of the purchase amount; and

simultaneously reducing the monetary amount held at said escrow account by the purchase amount, so that said MRT network user earns the higher interest rate offered by said second account until the demand transaction is executed via the stored value product.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

establishing, by said MRT Network user, an expiration date for said funds loaded to said escrow account, and

receiving, by said MRT Network user, any unspent monetary value held in said escrow account on said established expiration date.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein:

(i) said home financial institution is a cash rebate issuer, said cash rebate issuer being a merchant or a manufacturer (ii) said first account is an escrow account, (iii) said monetary amount held in said escrow account comprises cash for the purpose of paying a cash rebate amount to said MRT network user, (iv) said second account offers an interest rate higher than said escrow account, (v) only said monetary right to earn interest (R (β

, $)) is transferred to said second account, and (vi) said non-transferred subset of monetary rights are held by said cash rebate issuer;

the method further comprising;

prior to step (g), contacting, by said internet-based MRT network, said cash rebate issuer to permit said MRT network user to transfer only said monetary right to earn interest (R (β

, $)) associated with said monetary amount held in said escrow account;

while said subset of monetary rights is transferred to said second account, exercising, by said cash rebate issuer, said monetary right to make payments (R (φ

, $)) by executing a demand transaction on said escrow account for said cash rebate amount,

automatically reducing, via said internet-based MRT network, the monetary value associated with said subset of monetary rights transferred to said second account by the monetary value of the cash rebate amount; and

simultaneously reducing the monetary amount held at said escrow account by the cash rebate amount, so that said MRT network user earns the higher interest rate offered by said second account until said demand transaction is executed by said cash rebate issuer.

16. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating, by said internet-based MRT network, a transactional log for each monetary rights transfer and each monetary rights transfer reduction of said MRT network user.

17. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

poplulating, by said MRT network user a universal account opening form, said universal account opening form pre-approved by all participating financial institutions of said internet-based MRT network, and

pre-opening, base on said populated universal account opening form accounts at said all participating financial institutions so that said MRT network user can transfer monetary rights instantaneously to any of said pre-opened accounts.

18. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

crediting, by said home financial institution, the monetary value of said interest amount to said first account.

19. A system for capturing interest, said system comprising:

a real time gross settlement (RTGS) system controlled by a central bank of a country which (i) registers a home financial institution and an external financial institution and (ii) maintains a home financial institution central bank account and an external financial institution central bank account, and said RTGS system is configured to;

record debits and credits between central bank accounts maintained by different financial institutions at the central bank;

an internet-based monetary rights transfer (MRT) network, embedded into said RTGS system, said internet-based MRT network comprising an enterprise level computer network (ELCN) configured to;

recognize and account for an unbundled and individually transferable set of monetary rights associated with an amount of money, said unbundled and individually transferable set of monetary rights (R (α

. . . τ

, $)) selected from the group consisting of;

a monetary right to invest (R (α

, $)), a monetary right to earn interest (R (β

, $)), a monetary right to use as collateral (R (χ

, $)), a monetary right to hold as a store of value (R (δ

, $)), a monetary right to make purchases (R (ε

, $)), a monetary right to make payments (R, (φ

, $)), a monetary right to lend (R (γ

, $)), a monetary right to borrow (R (η

, $)), and a monetary right to gift (R (τ

, $)), and register said home financial institution and said external financial institution as participating financial institutions;

a home financial institution ELCN connected to said internet-based MRT network ELCN via the Internet, said home financial institution ELCN configured to maintain a first account which holds a monetary amount for an MRT network user, and wherein said MRT network user is an owner or holder of said monetary amount;

an external financial institution ELCN connected to said internet-based MRT network ELCN via the Internet, said external financial institution ELCN configured to maintain a second account for said MRT network user; and

said internet-based MRT network ELCN is further configured to;

transfer, by said MRT network user, a subset of monetary rights associated with a monetary value held at said first account to said second account, wherein said subset of monetary rights comprises one or more of said monetary right to invest (R (α

, $)), said monetary right to earn interest (R (β

, $)), and said monetary right to lend (R (γ

, $)), and wherein said monetary value comprises the whole monetary value or a partial monetary value of the monetary amount held at said first account; and

said RTGS system is further configured to;

instantly record a debit equal to said monetary value in said home financial institution central bank account and a credit equal to said monetary value in said external financial institution central bank account, upon the RTGS system receiving notice from the internet-based MRT network ELCN that a non-transferred subset of monetary rights associated with said monetary value remains at said first account serving as full, non-leveraged collateral for said transferred subset of monetary rights; and

said external financial institution ELCN is further configured to;

lend or invest a cash amount to earn a return, wherein said cash amount is based on the monetary value credited to said external financial institution central bank account,

earn, by said MRT network user, an interest amount on the monetary value associated with said transferred subset of monetary rights, and

receive, via said internet-based MRT network ELCN, a request to transfer the earned interest amount from said second account to said first account; and

said RTGS system is further configured to;

capture said interest amount by recording a debit equal to a monetary value of said interest amount in said external financial institution central bank account and a credit equal to said monetary value of said interest amount in said home financial institution central bank account.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein said central bank is the United States Federal Reserve Bank, said country is the United States of America, and said RTGS system is the Fedwire RTGS system.