System and method for investing public deposits

• US 8,150,766 B1
• Filed: 12/19/2006
• Issued: 04/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/27/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Island Intellectual Property LLC (Double Rock Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Island Intellectual Property LLC (Double Rock Corporation)
• Inventors: Bent, Bruce, Bent, Bruce II, Bent, Arthur T. III
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Jagdish
• Application Number:
  US11/641,046
• Time in Patent Office: 1,932 Days
• Field of Search: 705/37, 705/39
• US Class Current: 705/39
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/10 specially adapted for electronic funds transfer [EFT] systems; specially adapted for home banking systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 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

Abstract

A method, system and program product for operating an exchange method for municipal and/or state funds from banking institutions, comprising: (A) accessing, by one or more computers, one or more electronic databases holding data on client transaction accounts and funds in aggregated accounts and banking institutions holding Federal government securities; (B) obtaining transaction data for clients'"'"' deposits/transfers to and withdrawals/transfers from a plurality of said client transaction accounts; (C) generating instructions, to deposit/transfer funds to or withdraw/transfer funds from one or more of the aggregated accounts to satisfy the clients'"'"' deposits/transfers to and withdrawals/transfers from a plurality of said client transaction accounts; (D) receiving data, for a first deposit from a first one of the banking institutions, where the first deposit comprises municipal funds and/or state funds; (E) selecting, at least another of the banking institutions holding government securities to receive at least a portion of the first deposit of municipal funds and/or state funds; (F) selecting, a plurality of client transaction accounts from one or more of the other banking institutions for the transfer of funds to the first banking institution; (G) generating instructions to deposit/transfer funds from the plurality of the client transaction accounts selected to the first banking institution; (H) updating the electronic databases.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

(A) accessing, using one or more computers, one or more electronic databases, stored on one or more computers-readable media, the one or more databases comprising;

(1) aggregated account information for a plurality of government backed-insured and interest-bearing aggregated deposit accounts held in a plurality of financial institutions participating in a program, wherein funds from client accounts of a plurality of clients are aggregated with funds of other client accounts in the aggregated deposit accounts held in the financial institutions, with the aggregated deposit accounts providing non-penalized liquidity for the funds held therein;

(2) client account information for funds, for each of a plurality of respective client accounts, held in one or more of the plurality of the financial institutions, comprising a respective balance of funds, of the respective client account, held in each of one or more of the aggregated deposit accounts holding funds of the respective client account; and

(B) obtaining into the one or more computers, transfer data comprising an amount of governmental funds of one or more of the client accounts sourced for the program from a first one of the financial institutions, that are to be deposited in one or more other of the financial institutions;

(C) allocating the amount of governmental funds sourced from the first financial institution, using the one or more computers, to one or more of a first set of the financial institutions other than the first financial institution, for deposit in one or more aggregated deposit accounts held therein, based at least in part on obtaining government backed deposit insurance and/or collateralization by government securities for the funds;

(D) allocating, using the one or more computers, to the first financial institution for the one or more aggregated deposit accounts held therein, an amount of funds from one or more of a second set of the financial institutions other than the first financial institution, so that an amount of funds sourced from the second set of the financial institutions and held in the first financial institution is approximately equal to or greater than the amount of the governmental funds sourced from the first financial institution;

(E) generating and communicating data comprising one or more amounts for one or more instructions, using the one or more computers and a network communication link, to transfer funds between or among two or more of the financial institutions based at least in part on one or more of the allocating steps; and

(F) using the one or more computers, to update at least data for the aggregated account information for one or more of the aggregated deposit accounts taking into consideration at least the amounts from the steps (C), (D) and/or (E), and to update data for one or more respective balances of funds for one or more of the respective client accounts held in each of one or more of the aggregated deposit accounts holding funds of the respective client account taking into consideration at least the amounts from the allocating steps (C) and (D), in one or more of the electronic databases.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the steps of the claim are performed by an intermediary.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the one or more of the first set of the financial institutions are the same as the one or more of the second set of the financial institutions.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the one or more of the first set of the financial institutions are different from the one or more of the second set of the financial institutions.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the one or more of the first set of the financial institutions overlap with the one or more of the second set of the financial institutions.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein a total of the funds allocated to the first financial institution comprises a predetermined percentage of the amount sourced from the first financial institution.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising allocating, using the one or more computers, respective amounts held in the one or more from the second set of the financial institutions of multiple of the respective client accounts with funds therein to the first financial institution to substantially match the amount allocated to the first financial institution in the allocating step (D),

wherein respective amounts from the respective client accounts allocated to the first financial institution are less than or equal to a maximum amount eligible for federal deposit insurance.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising allocating, using the one or more computers, respective amounts held in the one or more from the second set of the financial institutions of multiple of the respective client accounts with funds therein to the first financial institution to substantially match the amount allocated to the first financial institution in the allocating step (D),

wherein only client accounts with respective balances less than or equal to a threshold amount are allocated.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising allocating, using the one or more computers, respective amounts held in the one or more from the second set of the financial institutions of multiple of the respective client accounts with funds therein to the first financial institution to substantially match the amount allocated to the first financial institution in the allocating step (D),

wherein client accounts with respective balances greater than a threshold amount are allocated.

10. The method as defined in claim 1, further comprising allocating respective balances of the respective client accounts among the financial institutions to substantially match the amounts allocated in allocating steps (C) and (D).

11. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the governmental funds are from one or more accounts of one or more public entities.

12. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein one or more of the financial institutions is a credit union.

13. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein one or more of the financial institutions is a bank.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the allocating to the first financial institution step comprises allocating one or more amounts from the one or more from the second set of financial institutions to the first financial institution so that a total of the-amounts held in the first financial institution sourced from other of the financial institutions is greater than the amount of the governmental funds sourced from the first financial institution and held in one or more of the other of the financial institutions.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the allocating to the first financial institution step comprises allocating one or more amounts from the one or more from the second set of financial institutions to the first financial institution so that a total of amounts held in the first financial institution sourced from other of the financial institutions is substantially equal to the amount of the governmental funds sourced from the first financial institution and held in one or more of the other of the financial institutions.

16. the method of claim 1, wherein the one or more instructions to transfer funds between or among one or more of the financial institutions in the generating and communicating data step permit an unlimited number of withdrawals in a month from a limited number of the financial institutions.

17. The method as defined in claim 1, further comprising:

obtaining, from a communication link and the one or more computers, for each of multiple client accounts, data for deposits/transfers to and/or withdrawals/transfers from the respective client account, said data comprising transaction data for one or more deposits/transfers for the respective client account and/or data for one or more withdrawals/transfers from the respective client account, and/or a net thereof;

allocating, by the one or more computers, the clients'"'"' deposits/transfers and/or withdrawals/transfers and/or nets thereof to one or more of the aggregated deposit accounts;

obtaining a respective net amount, by the one or more computers, for each of multiple of the respective aggregated deposit accounts, the respective net amount comprising the client deposits/transfers to and/or withdrawals/transfers from the client accounts allocated to the respective aggregated deposit account, on a regular basis.

18. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the generating and communicating data for one or more instructions step to transfer funds causes at least one aggregated deposit account to have more than six withdrawals/transfers in a month.

19. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the step (C) of allocating to the one or more from the first set of the financial institutions comprises selecting one or more of the financial institutions from the first set based at least in part on one or more first criteria.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein one of the one or more first criteria for selecting the one or more from the first set of the financial institutions comprises an amount of government securities held in the respective financial institution.

21. The method as defined in claim 19, wherein one of the one or more first criteria for allocating to the one or more from the first set of the financial institutions to receive at least a portion of the amount sourced from the first financial institution is based at least in part on an amount of municipal funds held at the respective financial institution.

22. The method as defined in claim 19, wherein one of the first criteria for selecting the one or more from the first set of the financial institutions is based at least in part on an amount of funds the respective financial institution can transfer without restriction.

23. The method as defined in claim 19, wherein one of the first criteria for selecting the one or more from the first set of the financial institutions is based at least in part on an amount of governmental funds to be held in the respective financial institution.

24. The method as defined in claim 19, wherein one of the first criteria for selecting the one or more from the first set of the financial institutions is based at least in part on a maximum level of funds in the program to be held at the respective financial institution.

25. The method as defined in claim 19, wherein one of the first criteria for selecting the one or more from the first set of the financial institutions is based at least in part on a minimum level of funds in the program to be held at the respective financial institution.

26. The method as defined in claim 19, wherein one of the first criteria for selecting the one or more from the first set of the financial institutions is to maintain for at least one of the financial institutions a partial or complete reciprocity between sourced funds from the respective one financial institution and funds allocated to the respective one financial institution.

27. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the step (D) comprises allocating, using the one or more computers, to the first financial institution for the one or more aggregated deposit accounts held therein, an amount of funds from the one or more from the second set of the financial institutions, so that an amount of funds sourced from one or more of the second set of the financial institutions and held in the first financial institution is equal to or greater than the amount of the governmental funds sourced from the first financial institution.

28. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more of the first set of the financial institutions are the same as the one or more of the second set of the financial institutions.

29. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more of the first set of the financial institutions are different from the one or more of the second set of the financial institutions.

30. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more of the first set of the financial institutions overlap with the one or more of the second set of the financial institutions.

31. A system, comprising:

one or more computers comprising memory wherein the memory stores computer- readable instructions comprising program code that, when executed, cause the one or more computers to perform the steps;

(A) accessing, using the one or more computers, one or more electronic databases, stored on one or more computers-readable media, the one or more databases comprising;

(1) aggregated account information for a plurality of government backed-insured and interest-bearing aggregated deposit accounts held in a plurality of financial institutions participating in a program, wherein funds from client accounts of a plurality of clients are aggregated with funds of other client accounts in the aggregated deposit accounts held in the financial institutions, with the aggregated deposit accounts providing non-penalized liquidity for the funds held therein;

(2) client account information for funds, for each of a plurality of respective client accounts, held in one or more of the plurality of the financial institutions, comprising a respective balance of funds, of the respective client account, held in each of one or more of the aggregated deposit accounts holding funds of the respective client account; and

(B) obtaining into the one or more computers, transfer data comprising an amount of governmental funds of one or more of the client accounts sourced for the program from a first one of the financial institutions, that are to be deposited in one or more other of the financial institutions;

(C) allocating the amount of governmental funds sourced from the first financial institution, using the one or more computers, to one or more of a first set of the financial institutions other than the first financial institution, for deposit in one or more aggregated deposit accounts held therein, based at least in part on obtaining government backed deposit insurance and/or collateralization by government securities for the funds;

(D) allocating, using the one or more computers, to the first financial institution for the one or more aggregated deposit accounts held therein, an amount of funds from one or more of a second set of the financial institutions other than the first financial institution, so that an amount of funds sourced from the second set of the financial institutions and held in the first financial institution is approximately equal to or greater than the amount of the governmental funds sourced from the first financial institution;

(E) generating and communicating data comprising one or more amounts for one or more instructions, using the one or more computers and a network communication link, to transfer funds between or among two or more of the financial institutions based at least in part on one or more of the allocating steps; and

(F) using the one or more computers, to update at least data for the aggregated account information for one or more of the aggregated deposit accounts taking into consideration at least the amounts from the steps (C), (D) and/or (E), and to update data for one or more respective balances of funds for one or more of the respective client accounts held in each of one or more of the aggregated deposit accounts holding funds of the respective client account taking into consideration at least the amounts from the allocating steps (C) and (D), in one or more of the electronic databases.