Using commercial share of wallet to rate business prospects

• US 8,788,388 B2
• Filed: 03/11/2013
• Issued: 07/22/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. (American Express Company)
• Original Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. (American Express Company)
• Inventors: Chatterji, Siddhartha, Haggerty, Kathleen, Lyon, Charles Christopher, Okoh, Benedict O., Phelan, Robert E., Ruterman, Jon Kevin, Turner, Geraldine A., Yuan, Chao M., Biswas, Arnab
• Primary Examiner(s): Hammond, III, Thomas M
• Application Number:
  US13/794,465
• Publication Number:
  US 20130197969A1
• Time in Patent Office: 498 Days
• Field of Search: 705/35
• US Class Current: 705/35
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0201 Market modelling; Market analysis; Collecting market data
• 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 40/08 Insurance

Abstract

Commercial size of spending wallet (“CSoSW”) is the total business spend of a business including cash but excluding bartered items. Commercial share of wallet (“CSoW”) is the portion of the spending wallet that is captured by a particular financial company. A modeling approach utilizes various data sources to provide outputs that describe a company'"'"'s spend capacity. Research analysts can use CSoW/CSoSW to provide a comprehensive and robust indication of the business prospects of a rated company.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

modeling, by a financial assessment computer-based system, industry spending patterns, wherein the modeling is based on cardable operating expenses, a cost of goods sold, operating expenses and a cardable operating expenses ratio, and wherein the computer-based system comprises a computer processor and a tangible, non-transitory memory, wherein the modeling comprises aggregating trade credit data and company financial statement data; and

estimating, by the computer-based system, a commercial size of spending wallet of a company based on known financial statement data of the company, total known business spending of the company, and the model of industry spending patterns.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising issuing a corporate rating based on at least the commercial size of spending wallet of the company.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the corporate rating is issued for the company.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the issuing further comprises issuing a corporate rating based on at least the commercial size of spending wallet of the company and historical financial information of the company.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the company is a customer of a provider, and the corporate rating is issued for the provider.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the issuing further comprises issuing a corporate rating for the provider based on the commercial size of spending wallet of the company and historical financial information of the provider.

7. The method of claim 2, wherein the issuing further comprises updating, by the financial assessment computer-based system, an existing corporate rating based on the commercial size of spending wallet of the company.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the estimating further comprises outputting, by the computer-based system, the commercial size of spending wallet as a score.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the model of industry spending patterns is used to infer financial statement data that is not known.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the model of industry spending patterns is used to infer spending data that is not known.

11. A system comprising:

a computer processor configured for financial assessment; and

a tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by the computer processor, cause the computer processor to perform operations comprising;

modeling, by the processor, industry spending patterns, wherein the modeling is based on cardable operating expenses, a cost of goods sold, operating expenses and a cardable operating expenses ratio, wherein the modeling comprises aggregating tread credit data and company financial statement date; and

estimating, by the processor, a commercial size of spending wallet of a company based on known financial statement data of the company, total known business spending of the company, and the model of industry spending patterns.

12. The system of claim 11, further comprising issuing a corporate rating based on at least the commercial size of spending wallet of the company.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the corporate rating is issued for the company.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the issuing further comprises issuing a corporate rating based on at least the commercial size of spending wallet of the company and historical financial information of the company.

15. The system of claim 12, wherein the company is a customer of a provider, and the corporate rating is issued for the provider.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the issuing further comprises issuing a corporate rating for the provider based on the commercial size of spending wallet of the company and historical financial information of the provider.

17. The system of claim 12, wherein the issuing further comprises updating, by the computer-based system, an existing corporate rating based on the commercial size of spending wallet of the company.

18. The system of claim 11, wherein the estimating further comprises outputting, by the computer-based system, the commercial size of spending wallet as a score.

19. The system of claim 11, wherein the model of industry spending patterns is used to infer at least one of financial statement data that is not known and spending data that is not known.

20. An article of manufacture including a non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by a computing device configured for financial assessment, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:

modeling, by the computing device, industry spending patterns, wherein the modeling is based on cardable operating expenses, a cost of goods sold, operating expenses and a cardable operating expenses ratio, wherein the modeling comprises aggregating trade credit data and company financial statement data; and

estimating, by the computing device, a commercial size of spending wallet of a company based on known financial statement data of the company, total known business spending of the company, and the model of industry spending patterns.