Debt services candidate locator

• US 9,972,048 B1
• Filed: 12/16/2016
• Issued: 05/15/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Consumerinfo.com Incorporated (Experian plc)
• Original Assignee: Consumerinfo.com Incorporated (Experian plc)
• Inventors: Dean, Michael John, Kapczynski, Mark Joseph
• Primary Examiner(s): Poinvil, Frantzy
• Application Number:
  US15/382,507
• Time in Patent Office: 515 Days
• Field of Search: 705 3- 44
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/02 Banking, e.g. interest calculation or account maintenance credit or loans G06Q40/03
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/03 Credit; Loans; Processing thereof

Abstract

Methods and systems are disclosed that identify and locate debt settlement candidates based on credit data associated with the consumer. For example, candidacy may be based on a debt score, generated by an assessment of the consumer'"'"'s credit data. Credit data may include the consumer'"'"'s credit score rank, credit score, revolving credit to debit ratio, credit available, delinquent accounts, negative accounts, instances of negative information on their credit report, public record data, average account age, debit, or a combination thereof.

Claims

1. A computerized method of determining a user'"'"'s debt services options, comprising:

receiving a request for a debt score for a consumer;

accessing, from an electronic data store, credit data of the consumer;

calculating, with one or more hardware computer processors, said debt score based on at least the accessed credit data of the consumer using one or more customized debt score algorithms associated with one or more debt services providers, wherein the debt score is usable to determine a likelihood of the consumer being eligible for each of multiple debt services options;

generating, by a computing system, user interface data configured for rendering on a user computing device of a user to display a user interface on a display of the user'"'"'s computing device, the user interface indicating at least;

the calculated debt score;

one or more potentially available debt services options, based on the calculated debt score;

in response to the user'"'"'s selection of a potentially available debt service option,

initiating contact with a debt services provider associated with the selected debt services options; and

generating a negotiated debt settlement agreement between the user and the debt services provider.

2. The computerized method of claim 1, wherein the one or more customized debt score algorithms comprising a computation based at least partly on a plurality of attributes in the credit data.

3. The computerized method of claim 2, wherein the plurality of attributes comprising at least one of:

a credit score,

a ratio of revolving credit to debt,

an amount of credit available,

a quantity of delinquent accounts,

a quantity of negative accounts,

an average age of tradelines in the credit data, or

a quantity of negative information in the credit data.

4. The computerized method of claim 1, further comprising:

reporting to one or more credit bureaus the negotiated debt settlement agreement.

5. The computerized method of claim 1, wherein the negotiated settlement agreement has a reduced or no negative impact on the user'"'"'s credit report as compared to a typical “

account settled”

status report.