Financial transaction data profile

• US 8,862,512 B2
• Filed: 02/25/2010
• Issued: 10/14/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bank of America Corp.
• Original Assignee: Bank of America Corp.
• Inventors: Joa, David, Cantley, Kerry, Newman, Kurt D., Ghosh, Debashis
• Primary Examiner(s): Wong, Eric T
• Application Number:
  US12/712,862
• Publication Number:
  US 20110208588A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,692 Days
• Field of Search: 705/35
• US Class Current: 705/35
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0258 Registration
• 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 40/12 Accounting

Abstract

Embodiments of the invention include a method of developing a financial transaction data profile. Financial instruments are received as images, where the financial instruments include transactional data. The transactional data is extracted from the financial instruments and uploaded to a computer. The transactional data is organized so that the transactional data is grouped into categories. The categories are stored for presentation to the user in a financial transaction profile.

Claims

1. A computerized method for developing a financial transaction data profile, the method further comprising:

receiving a plurality of financial documents, wherein the financial documents comprise transactional data, wherein the transactional data comprises a plurality of transactions that occur over a period of time and an instruction to exclude a transaction of the plurality of transactions associated with one financial document of the plurality of financial documents, the instruction to exclude inputted by a user in the one financial document of the plurality of financial documents;

extracting at least a portion of the transactional data from the plurality of financial documents;

uploading the transactional data extracted from the plurality of financial documents to a computer system;

organizing the transactional data in the computer system so that the transactional data is grouped into at least one category comprising at least one transaction;

determining a purpose of the at least one transaction of the at least one category based on a type of account used in the at least one transaction and a time period associated with the at least one transaction;

removing a categorized transaction of the at least one transaction from the at least one category based on the instruction to exclude;

sending an alert upon exceeding a maximum percentage threshold, wherein the maximum percentage threshold is based on the total value of the at least one transaction that is grouped into the at least one category divided by the total value of the plurality of transactions; and

storing the categories in the computer system for presentation to a user in a financial transaction data profile.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the transactional data comprises an amount of a transaction.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the transactional data comprises a payee name.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the transactional data comprises a type of transaction.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the transactional data comprises a date of a transaction.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the financial documents comprise a check.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting the financial transaction data profile to a physical address.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a plurality of images, each of the plurality of images representing a different financial instrument;

scanning the image to extract at least a portion of transactional data embedded in each financial instrument;

uploading the plurality of images and the transactional data to the computer system;

organizing the plurality of images in the computer system so that plurality of images are categorized by the transactional data into one or more categories; and

storing the one or more categories in the computer system for presentation to the user via the financial transaction data profile.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising receiving pre-define preferences from the user related to organizing the transactional data into at least one category on the user'"'"'s computer.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving input from the user to opt in to receive a product or service recommendation; and

sending the product or service recommendation to the user based on the financial transaction data profile.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a user preference for a presentation format for the financial transaction data profile on the user'"'"'s computer;

assigning the presentation format to the financial transaction profile; and

storing the presentation format to the computer system.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the transaction data is grouped into at least one category based on signatories of the financial documents.

13. A computerized method for developing a financial transaction profile, the method comprising:

receiving a plurality of images, each of the plurality of images representing the entire contents of a different financial instrument, each financial instrument comprising a payee name such that the payee name is embedded in each image, wherein at least one image of the plurality of images comprises and an instruction to exclude at least one financial instrument associated with the at least one image, the instruction to exclude inputted by a user in the at least one financial instrument and embedded in the at least one image;

scanning each image to extract the payee name from each image into text;

uploading each image and each associated payee name to a computer system;

organizing each image into categories associated with each payee name such that all images having the same payee name are grouped together into a common category;

determining a purpose of one or more categorized images based on a type of account and a time period associated with the one or more categorized images;

removing the at least one image from the common category based on the instruction to exclude;

storing the categories in the computer system for presentation to a user in a financial transaction data profile; and

presenting the financial transaction data profile to the user, wherein the financial transaction data profile comprises the images having the same payee name that are grouped together into the common category.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

receiving user preferences;

organizing the transactional data from the plurality of financial instruments into the financial transaction data profile based on the preferences; and

storing the financial transaction data profile to a computer system.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the financial transaction data profile comprises a periodic statement.

16. The method of claim 13, further comprising receiving user preferences for methods of paying a bill based on the financial transaction data profile.

17. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

receiving input from the user to opt in to receive a product or service recommendation; and

sending a product or service recommendation to the user based on the financial transaction data profile.

18. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

receiving user preferences for a method of receiving alerts, wherein the user preferences comprise at least one condition; and

sending the alert to the user by the method when the condition occurs.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the preferences relate to privacy settings and data usage settings.

20. A method for creating product or service recommendations, the method further comprising:

receiving a plurality of financial instruments, wherein the financial instrument comprises transactional data, wherein the transactional data comprises a plurality of transactions that occur over a period of time and an instruction to exclude a transaction of the plurality of transactions associated with one financial document of the plurality of financial documents, the instruction to exclude inputted by a user in the one financial document of the plurality of financial documents;

extracting at least a portion of the transactional data from the plurality of financial instruments;

uploading the transactional data extracted from the plurality of financial instruments to a computer system;

organizing the transactional data in the computer system so that the transactional data is grouped into at least one category comprising at least one transaction;

determining a purpose of the at least one transaction of the at least one category based on a type of account used in the at least one transaction and a time period associated with the at least one transaction;

removing a categorized transaction of the at least one transaction from the at least one category based on the instruction to exclude;

sending an alert upon exceeding a maximum percentage threshold, wherein the maximum percentage threshold is based on the total value of the at least one transaction that is grouped into the at least one category divided by the total value of the plurality of transactions;

storing the at least one category in the computer system for presentation to a user in a financial transaction data profile; and

selecting a product or service recommendation based on the financial transaction data profile.

21. The method of claim 20, further comprising receiving input from the user to opt in to receive a product or service recommendation;

and sending the product or service recommendation to the user.

22. The method of claim 20, further comprising receiving user preferences for the type of product or service recommendation to be received by the user.

23. The method of claim 20, wherein the at least one category comprises a type of transaction.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the type of transaction comprises a purchase transaction.

25. The method of claim 23, wherein the type of transaction comprises deposits to an account.

26. The method of claim 20, wherein the at least one category comprises one or more payee names.

27. An apparatus for developing a financial transaction data profile, the apparatus comprising:

a processor configured to;

scan a plurality of images, each image representing a financial instrument, the financial instrument comprising transactional data, wherein the transactional data comprises a plurality of transactions that occur over a period of time and an instruction to exclude a transaction of the plurality of transactions associated with one financial document of the plurality of financial documents, the instruction to exclude inputted by a user in the financial instrument;

extract the transactional data embedded in the plurality of images;

organize the transactional data from the plurality of images so that the transactional data is grouped into at least one category comprising at least one transaction;

determine a purpose of the at least one transaction of the at least one category based on a type of account used in the at least one transaction and a time period associated with the at least one transaction;

remove a categorized transaction of the at least one transaction from the at least one category based on the instruction to exclude;

send an alert upon exceeding a maximum percentage threshold, wherein the maximum percentage threshold is based on the total value of the at least one transaction that is grouped into the at least one category divided by the total value of the plurality of transactions; and

store the at least one category for presenting to the user in a financial transaction data profile.

28. The apparatus of claim 27 further comprising a user interface configured to present the financial transaction profile.

29. The apparatus of claim 28, wherein the user interface is further configured to allow the user to enter or select user preferences.

30. The apparatus of claim 29, wherein the processor is further configured to organize the transactional data into the at least one category in accordance with the user preferences.

31. The apparatus of claim 27, wherein the processor is further configured to send product or service recommendations based on the financial transaction profile.

32. The apparatus of claim 29, wherein the processor is further configured to pay a bill associated with the transactional data based on the user preference.

33. A non-transitory computer readable medium for developing a financial transaction data profile comprising computer program code embodied therein, the computer program code, when executed on a computer, causes the computer to implement a method comprising:

extracting transactional data from a plurality of financial instruments, the transactional data comprising a plurality of transactions that occur over a period of time and an instruction to exclude a transaction of the plurality of transactions associated with one financial document of the plurality of financial documents, the instruction to exclude inputted by a user in the one financial document of the plurality of financial documents;

organizing the transactional data from the plurality of financial instruments so that the transactional data is grouped into at least one category comprising at least one transaction;

determining a purpose of the at least one transaction of the at least one category based on a type of account used in the at least one transaction and a time period associated with the at least one transaction;

removing a categorized transaction of the at least one transaction from the at least one category based on the instruction to exclude;

sending an alert upon exceeding a maximum percentage threshold, wherein the maximum percentage threshold is based on the total value of the at least one transaction that is grouped into the at least one category divided by the total value of the plurality of transactions; and

storing the at least one category and transactional data in the computer system for presenting to the user in a financial transaction data profile.

34. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 33, wherein the method further comprising presenting the financial transaction profile.

35. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 34, wherein the user interface is further configured to allow user preferences to be entered or selected.

36. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 35, wherein the method further comprises organizing the transactional data into the categories based on the user preferences.

37. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 33, wherein the method further comprises sending product or service recommendations based on the financial transaction profile.

38. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 33, wherein the method further comprises sending alerts based on a default or user preference.

39. A system for developing a financial transaction profile, the system comprising:

a computer comprising at least one module that is configured to;

scan a plurality of images, each image representing a financial instrument, wherein each financial instrument comprises transactional data, wherein the transactional data comprises a plurality of transactions that occur over a period of time and an instruction to exclude a transaction of the plurality of transactions associated with one financial document of the plurality of financial documents, the instruction to exclude inputted by a user in one financial instrument;

convert the transactional data embedded in the images into a series of characters or numbers;

organize the transactional data from the plurality of images so that the transactional data is grouped together into at least one category comprising at least one transaction;

determine a purpose of the at least one transaction of the at least one category based on a type of account used in the at least one transaction and a time period associated with the at least one transaction;

remove a categorized transaction of the at least one transaction from the at least one category based on the instruction to exclude exclusion rule; and

send an alert upon exceeding a maximum percentage threshold, wherein the maximum percentage threshold is based on the total value of the at least one transaction that is grouped into the at least one category divided by the total value of the plurality of transactions.

40. The system of claim 39, further comprising a user interface for presenting the financial transaction profile in an online banking system.

41. The system of claim 39, further comprising a network and an online banking server coupled to the network to present online banking account information with the financial transaction profile.

42. The system of claim 39, comprises organizing the transactional data into the categories based on user preferences.