CA2236432A1 - System and method for bill delivery and payment over a communications network - Google Patents
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Abstract
In a bill delivery and payment system, users (100) are able to access a server computer (160) on a communications network (110) to obtain bill information and pay bills. For example, such a communications network (110) may be the Internet or the World Wide Web thereof. Using a personal computer (100), a user can access a Web site provided by the server computer (160) to view the bill information and instruct the server computer (160) as to the details of the bill payment. In a second embodiment, without visiting the web site, users are provided with electronic bills containing bill information in the form of electronic mail (e-mail) at their e-mail addresses. After opening an electronic bill, a user can make the bill payment by replying to the electronic bill.
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W O 97/16798 PCT~US96/17799 Description System And Method For Bill Delivery And PaYment Over A ~o~nn~cations Network Technical Field This invention relates to a financial transaction system and method, and particularly to a system and method for delivery and payment of bills over a communications network.
Backqround of the Invention Each household needs to spend a significant amount of time each month to respond to numerous bills including utility bills, credit card bills, mortgage payments, car loan payments, insurance payments, etc.
The most common method of payment of the bills is writing paper checks for the appropriate amounts and mailing such checks to payees. This method is labor intensive and time consuming for a bill-payer, and must be done on multiple occasions each month since the bills do not normally arrive or become due on the same date. In addition, the bill-payer has to absorb the costs o~ postage in mailing the paper checks to payees.
Paper checks processing also entails significant costs to the payees who receive and handle remittances in this manner.
Attempts have been made to improve the e~ficiency o~ the bill payment method. One such attempt involves use of telephone systems ~or handling the bill payment.
The advanced telephone bill-paying systems incorporate voice response technology to obviate the need o~ a hllm~n operator's answering the calls. Most of the telephone bill-paying systems are run by individual banks, with which the users have accounts. Guided by phone instructions, a user normally provides the system with in~ormation on di~erent bills to be paid, including identities o~ the payees and the bill amounts.
Nonetheless, telephone bill-paying systems have serious limitations because o~ a lack o~ a visual inter~ace or display. Sophisticated service options are impractical because o~ their reliance on complex br~nch;ng alternatives requiring depression o~ a series o~ keys on the telephone keypad, which may cause con~usion and annoyance to the users. In addition, authorization, con~irmation and review o~ payments are bothersome because the users need to enter the identities of the payees by their code numbers, which may not be easily memorizable.
As personal computers (PC's) ~ind their way into people's homes, techniques ~or bill payment using a personal computer have emerged. One such technique is disclosed in U.S. Patent No. 5,220,501 issued June 15, 1993 to Lawlor et al. In accordance with this technique, the user utilizes a personal computer to communicate bill payment requests to a central computer operated by a bill-paying service provider. The central computer analyzes and processes the requests which are typically ~or many payments at a time. The in~ormation about these payments including sche~llled payment dates is stored in a database in the central computer. on the scheduled payment dates, the central computer generates and co~mlln;cates electronic ~unds trans~er requests through an automated clearing house (ACH) or automatic teller machine (ATM) network to the bank with which the user has an account, thereby debiting the user's account ~or the payments. The central computer then distributes the ~unds received to the appropriate payees.
Thus, some of the major shortcomings o~ the prior-art bill paying techniques are that a user is required -W097/16798 PCT~S96117799 to inconveniently go through multiple steps to have ~ their bills paid (including m~nll~lly receiving each bill, reviewing and storing it), and that the ~ techniques rely on the user to provide the bill information to initiate the bill-paying process. In the event that the user misplaces a bill, or i6 away from home on a business trip or vacation, without receiving bills in the mail, the bills will be unpaid and may become overdue. Overdue bills may incur finance charges and/or cause other inconveniences, e.g., the trouble of getting cancelled or terminated services reinstated. The inflexibility of bill payment imposed by the prior art techniques is attributable to their failure to take full advantage of advanced PC and communications technologies.
Accordingly, it is desirable to have a system and method whereby a user may conveniently and reliably receive the bills from any location and, at the ~ame time, efficiently make the bill payment by taking full advantage of the advanced technologies.
Summary of the Invention In a bill delivery and payment system in accordance with the invention, the payees no longer mail the bills to the system users, but securely deliver the bill information over a communications network, such as the well-known Internet network, telephone network, or private network, which the users may conveniently access. To that end, a "bill capture"
device is employed to collect from the payees the bill information concerning the users, which includes the amounts of individual bills, the payment due dates, etc. In a preferred embodiment, the collected informa-tion is provided to a server computer connected to the communications network. The bill information may be accessed by users using "browser" software in the case W O 97/16798 PCTnUS96/17799 of the Internet (or in particular the World Wide Web (WWW)), or by direct access in the case of a telephone network or private network. In the event that the bill information i5 not accessed ai~ter it is available for a predetermined period of time, the server computer will send a message in the form of an e-mail communication to a user that his/her bills are awaiting payment.
Upon accessing the server computer over the communications network, the users may respond by authorizing payments to selected payees. The payments are pre~erably made directly from the users payment accounts including credit and checking accounts. The user's response contains payment data including the payment type (e.g., credit or checking), payment amount, desired payment date, etc.
In an alternative embodiment, the server computer formats the bill information in the form of e-mail messages and deliver them to the e-mail addresses of the responsible users. The users may go on-line to retrieve the "electronic bills" addressed to them, and respond by sending to the server computer e-mail messages cont~;n;ng the payment data.
In either embodiment, after receiving the payment data ~rom a user, the server computer takes action to ensure settlement of funds between the user's account and the appropriate payees. The server computer also electronically routes the payment information to the payee to update its records.
Advantageously, with this invention, a user is able to electronically receive, review and pay the bills through a series o~ brief on-line sessions each month.
Brief DescriPtion of the Drawinqs Further objects, features and advantages of the invention will become apparent ~rom the following W O 97/16798 PCTrUS96/17799 detailed description taken in conjunction with the ~ accompanying figures showing illustrative embodiments of the invention, in which:
Figs. 1 and 5 combinedly illustrate a system wherein bills are electronically presented and paid over a communications network in accordance with the nvention;
Figs. 2A and 2B combinedly show a flow chart depicting the steps of an electronic bill payment program run on a server computer in a first embodiment of the system of Figs. 1 and 5;
Fig. 3 is a representation of a home page on the World Wide Web (WWW) of the Internet accessible by users in the first embodiment of the system of Figs. 1 and 5;
Fig. 4 is a display of a bill to be paid by a user in the first embodiment of the system of Figs. 1 and 5;
Fig. 5 is a block diagram including the server computer, a subscriber bank computer and an acquirer computer, and their interconnection in accordance with the invention;
Fig. 6 is a flow chart depicting a process run by the server computer;
Fig. 7 is a credit card statement documenting a bill payment using the system of Figs. 1 and 5;
Figs. 8A and 8B combinedly show a flow chart depicting the steps of a program for making electronic bill payments in a second embodiment of the system of Figs. 1 and 5;
Fig. 9 is a menu of options provided by the program of Figs. 8A and 8B;
Fig. 10 is a display presenting electronic bills in a summary format, which is triggered by the program of Figs. 8A and 8B; and Fig. 11 is a display showing an electronic bill in the second embodiment of the system of Figs. 1 and 5;
Throughout the figures, the same re~erence numerals and characters, unless otherwise stated, are used to denote like features, elements, components or portions o~ the illustrated embodiments. Moreover, while the subject invention will now be described in detail with reference to the ~igures, it is done 80 in connection with the illustrative embodiments. It is intended that changes and modi~ications can be made to the described embodiments without departing ~rom the true scope and spirit of the subject invention as de~ined by the appended claims.
Detailed DescriPtion The present invention is directed to a technique ~or delivery o~ bills over a communications network, and payment o~ the bills through the network using a personal computer (PC).
Over the past decade, PC's have become relatively power~ul and inexpensive, and have ~ound their way into a signi~icant number of people~s homes. With a modem, a PC user can commlln;cate with other computers through communications networks, and access many resources on the so-called "In~ormation Superhighway." Companies such as America Online, CompuServe, and Prodigy which traditionally provided so-calied "content" over proprietary networks have begun to provide access by a PC user to an expansive international network o~
networks known as the Internet. The Internet comprises a series o~ some 50,000 computer communications networks around the world, and provides connectivity between more than 38 million computer users, which number is predicted to grow to 100 million by 1998.
The on-line services typically provide, on the "net,"
~unctionality ~uch as electronic mail (e-mail), file trans~er protocol (~tp), and World Wide Web (WWW) access.
-W097/l6798 PCT~S96/17799 WWW is a graphical subnetwork of the Internet.
With common "web browser" software o~ the type of Mosaic or Netscape Navigator, the users may easily access Internet in~ormation and services on WWW. The web browser handles the ~unction of locating and targeting in~ormation on the Internet and displaying in~ormation provided by a web server. WWW utilizes the technology called "hypertext" to organize, search and present in~ormation on the Internet. Using the browser, a user can select a word ("hypertext word") ~rom a viewed document, and be linked to another document ~eaturing in~ormation related to the word.
These links are within the Web server domain and result in a progressively deeper search or base o~ choices.
In the business arena, a service provider can, with an Internet address and a hypertext editor, develop a hypertext document called a "home page", which a user may explore when he/she visits the provider's Web server. This home page ~urnishes in~ormation about the service of~ered by the provider through use o~ graphic images, sound, hyperlink choices, etc. With that in~ormation, the user is guided through the home page to select the service and desired service ~eatures.
In Fig. 1, PC 100 is illustratively employed by a subscriber o~ the electronic bill payment ~ervice in accordance with the invention, to access Internet network 110 via a dial-up link. PC 100 is a conven-tional personal computer and contains, inter alia, microprocessor 101; memory 103 ~or storing data, and programs comprising standard on-line service software package including browser software ~or accessing in~ormation and services on WWW; modem 105 ~or establishing the dial-up link to a gateway computer (not shown) connected to the network; display 107;
keyboard 109 and mouse 113. The gateway computer is W O 97/16798 PCTnUS96/17799 maintained and controlled by an on-line service provider, e.g., America Online, CompuServe, Prodigy and such, to ~acilitate the on-line access to network 110.
Also connected to network 110 is server computer 160 controlled and maintained by an electronic bill service company (EBSC), which de~ines the ~eatures and requirements o~ the electronic bill payment service in accordance with the invention, and oversees the service. Among other things, computer 160 compri~es communications capabilities which include af~ording WWW access and sending mes~ages in an e-mail ~ormat to the ~ervice subscribers over network 110.
Traditionally, insurance companies, ~inancial institutions such as banks, and utility companies such as telephone, electric and gas companies bill their customers ~or payments o~ insurance premiums, loans, utility ~ervices, etc. The billing is accomplished by mailing to the customers itemized bills. A~ter receiving the bills in the mail, the customers pay the respective payees, most often by paper checks through the mail.
In accordance with the invention, EBSC has negotiated with selected payees participating in the electronic bill payment service such that the payees no longer mail the bills to the subscribers o~ the ~ervice, but provide the billing data concerning the subscribers to bill capture device 150 which may be a conventional computer. In practice, this bill capture device could be made part of server computer 160.
Payee computers 170-1 through -K communicate with device 150 pursuant to an agreed-upon protocol twhere K is the number o~ participating payees), and periodically download the billing data to the device through transmission links or magnetic tapes. Device 150 collects and processes bill images ~rom the -W097/~6798 PCT~S96/17799 participating payees after the images are created, but before they are printed, to extract the billing data.
The billing data is transmitted from device 150 to server computer 160, via which the subscribers are able to access and "browse" their bills on WWW, and pay the bills using one or more accounts such a6 credit, checking, and NOW accounts, home equity lines of credit, and any other accounts from which funds may be drawn. The billing data is stored in such a form that the subscribers are allowed to view full graphics of their bills on PC's, print the bills on printers connected thereto, and download them for storage.
Payment transactions are routed from server computer 160 to another network or system such as MasterCard's Banknet, MasterCard Debit Switch system or the automated clearing house (ACH) for credit and/or debit authorization. Clearing and settlement of the transactions with the appropriate payees are then performed in a conventional m~nner~
Thus, with the web browser software installed on PC 100, the subscriber is able to access network 110 through the gateway computer to take advantage of the electronic bill payment service. To register for the bill payment service, the subscriber visits a service registration home page on WWW at a predetermined uniform resource locator (URL), the address for the home page. This home page is preprogrammed on server computer 160 to elicit necessary information from the subscriber to start the service subscription.
Instructed by an operating program in server computer 160, the latter prompts the subscriber through an initialization process where the subscriber is required to enter (a) the names of selected payees to which payments will be made electronically, (b) personal information including the name, address, telephone number, and social security number of the subscriber W O 97/16798 PCT~US96/17799 which enables the payees to suf~iciently identi~y the subscriber, (c) the e-mail address o~ the subscriber, (d) the desirable service starting date, and (e) in~ormation about the subscriber's credit and checking accounts. Such information includes the identity of the bank(s) with which the subscriber has the accounts, and the account numbers. The service starting date must be at least a predetermined period ~rom the present to allow EBSC to arrange with the selected payees to make the transition to s~n~;ng bill in~or-mation to bill capture device 150. The registration home page also a~ords the subscriber a service ~m~tration whereby the subscriber is familiarized with the electronic bill payment service ~eatures.
A~ter the initialization process, a second URL o~
a particular EBSC web site for bill payment is transmitted to the subscriber via either e-mail or regular mail. The subscriber also receives a userID
and password. The userID is ~or identi~ying the subscriber when he or she subsequently logs on the server computer to utilize the electronic bill payment service, and the password is ~or sa~eguarding against unauthorized access to the subscriber's bills cont~;n;ng personal in~ormation, and against unauthorized payment of such bills.
On the service starting date and therea~ter, as soon as the bill in~ormation concerning the subscriber is received, bill capture device 150 processes the in~ormation and transmits billing data to server computer 160 for access by the subscriber. Server computer tracks the due date o~ each bill o~ the subscriber. In the event that the subscriber does not log on the service and a bill is due within a predetermined period o~ time, server computer 160 will send e-mail or regular mail to bring the bill to the subscriber's attention.
, W O 97/16798 PCT~US96/17799 An electronic bill payment program run in server computer 160 will now be described. This program is invoked when a subscriber visits the EBSC's bill payment web site. Instructed by the electronic bill payment program, server computer 160 prompts the subscriber ~or a userID ~or his/her identi~ication, and a password to veri~y his/her access authorization, as indicated at step 305 in Fig. 2A. At step 310, when a userID and password are entered, the entries are veri~ied by server computer 160. I~ either entry is not verified, the program prompts ~or the entries again in case that they were mistyped or partially ~orgotten.
The subscriber is allowed to have a maximum of three attempts to enter the correct userID and password be~ore the program terminates.
A~ter the correct userID and password have been entered and veri~ied, the program at step 312 invokes a home page illustrated in Fig. 3. As shown in Fig. 3, the home page presents six choices in textual and graphical ~orm. These choices are illustratively "Obtain Account Balance" 201, "Receive and Pay Bills"
203, "Select New Payees" 205, "Update Electronic Account Register" 207, "Help" 209 and "Review Payments"
211. Any o~ such choices is selected by operating on mouse 113 (or its keystroke equivalent or a trackball or any other similar indicator) connected to PC 100 to point at and click on the desired choice. At step 314, the program monitors whether one of the six choices on the home page is selected. I~ "Receive and Pay Bills"
choice 203 is selected, the program proceeds to step 315 in Fig. 2B where server computer 160 causes display 107 to pull up an image o~ a ~irst unpaid bill. The ~irst bill, as displayed, is shown in Fig. 4 and illustratively an electric bill ~rom Electric Co. In this pre~erred embodiment, all the unpaid bills are arranged in chronological order with the bill having W O 97/16798 PCT~US96117799 the earliest due date displayed first. A subscriber may review other bills by clicking on up-arrow indicator 401 or down-arrow indicator 403 to retrieve the earlier or later bills.
As shown in Fig. 4, options regarding payment of the electric bill are presented in three columns, namely, "Pay Date" 407, "Payment Method" 409 and "Amount" 411. The payment is deemed to have been authorized by the subscriber only when an option in each of the three columns is selected. Referring to Figs. 2A and 2B along with Fig. 4, at step 320, server computer 160 monitors whether a "Today" option in "Pay Date" column 407 is selected. If such an option is selected, as in this example, server computer 160 records the current date as the date of payment, as indicated at step 325. Otherwise i~ the "Another Date"
option is selected, server computer 160 prompts the subscriber to enter a future date as the payment date, as indicated at step 330.
At step 332, computer 160 determines whether a "Credit Card" option in "Payment Method" column 409 is selected to be the method of payment. If such an option is selected, as in this example, computer 160 retrieves ~rom its memory the subscriber's credit account information, as indicated at step 335.
Otherwise if the "Checking Account" option is selected as the payment method, server computer 160 retrieves ~rom its memory the subscriber's checking account information, as indicated at step 340.
At step 338, computer 160 determines whether a nFull" option in "Amount" column 410 is selected. If such an option is selected, as in this example, server computer 160 retrieves ~rom its memory the full bill amount as the payment amount, as indicated at step 345.
Otherwise if an "Allowed Partial" option is selected, assuming that the billing account is a recurring or CA 02236432 l998-04-30 installment account where the subscriber is authorized ~ by the payee to make partial payment6, server computer 160 prompts :Eor the allowed partial payment amount, as - indicated at step 355.
In accordance.with another aspect o~ the invention, the electronic bill payment ~ervice may provide ~or a grievance process whereby the ~ubscriber may put the entire or a partial bill amount in dispute.
To that end, the subscriber may select the "Grievance"
option. In response, server computer 160 prompts at step 360 i~or a payment amount, :Eor which the subscriber may enter any value ~rom zero up to the ~ull bill amount, exclusive. The subscriber is also prompted ~or an explanation for the de~iciency which would be conveyed by EBSC to the appropriate payee. In any event, the payment entered by the subscriber is recorded by server computer 160 at step 370.
With the payment date, payment method and payment amount in~ormation, server computer 160 8chedule8 the bill :Eor payment, as indicated at step 375. At the same time, server computer 160 registers in a memory space allocated to the subscriber in~ormation about each payment including the scheduled payment date, the identity o~ the payee, and the payment amount, as indicated at step 378. The registered in:Eormation is for the subscriber' 5 records and may be reviewed by the subscriber's selecting "Review Payments" choice 211.
Because the memory space allocated to the subscriber is limited, only payment in~ormation registered within a predetermined period o~ time is retained.
When the payment transaction is executed on the scheduled payment date as indicated at step 379, server computer 160 transmits an e-mail message to the subscriber con~irming the bill payment, as indicated at step 380.
WO97/16798 PCT~S96/17799 Returning to step 314, if "Obtain Account Balance"
choice 201 is selected, based on the account information previously provided by the subscriber, server computer 160 retrieves at step 385 the available checking and credit account balances f rom the identi~ied subscriber bank(s) via a connection to be described. At step 390, server computer causes display 107 to show the account balances. The balance in~ormation is important as the subscriber may check the information be~ore he/she decides to pay bills using the credit or checking account, thereby avoiding a declined credit or debit transaction or an overdraft of the checking account.
At step 314, if "Update Electronic Account Register" choice 207 is selected, server computer 160 retrieves confirmed payment data and causes an update, taking into account the confirmed payments, to an electronic account register provided by the subscriber~s financial management software of the type of QUICKEN, MICROSOFT MONEY or MANAGING YOUR MONEY
preloaded on PC 100. Server computer 160 also causes the software to show the updated register on display 107, as indicated at step 394.
If "Review Payments" choice 211 is selected at step 314, server computer 160 retrieves the confirmed payment data, and the payment records created at step 378 described above, and causes display 107 to show records of payment with indications of "con~irmed"
status for those payments which were confirmed, as indicated at step 393.
I~ "Help" choice 209 is selected at step 314, server computer 160 causes display 107 to present a description of the electronic bill payment service including current service functions, rules and procedures, etc., as indicated at step 395.
CA 02236432 l998-04-30 I~ "Select New Payees" choice 205 is selected at step 314, server computer 160 causes display 107 to list all the payees previously identi~ied by the subscriber, and enables the subscriber to add new payees to or delete selected payees ~rom the list, as indicated at step 399. Tipon learning the changes in the payee list, the personnel o~ the EBSC accordingly establishes or cancels the electronic bill payment service with the corresponding payees.
As mentioned above, the subscribers may pay the electronic bills by their credit accounts. However, to prevent ~raud, security measures are built in to the operating program of server computer 160 such that use o~ a credit card account to pay credit card bills hav-ing the same credit card account number is thwarted by the so~tware. In addition, since Internet network 110 is a packet-switched network wherein a message may be routed through many di~erent nodes be~ore reaching its destination, a risk o~ having a message containing the credit or checking account in~ormation intercepted on the Internet arises. Although such a message is transmitted only once during the service registration process, to eliminate such a risk, a well-known public key cryptographic algorithm, such as the RSA algorithm, may be utilized by the subscriber to encrypt communi-cations to server computer 160. The latter may also use the same algorithm to encrypt the e-mail messages sent to the subscribers. Named a~ter its developers --Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman -- the RSA algorithm uses a private key and a public key to encrypt and decrypt messages. The keys are generated mathematically in part by combining prime numbers. For details on the RSA algorithm and its application, one may re~er to U.S. Patent No. 4,405,829 issued September 20, 1983 to Rivest et al., which is hereby incorporated by re~erence.
-WO97/16798 PCT~S96/17799 Fig. 5 illustrates a connection o~ server computer 160 to subscriber bank computer 503 and acquirer computer 505 through settlement network 507. The latter includes conventional ACH and Ma6terCard's Banknet. Subscriber bank computer 503 is controlled and maintained by a bank with which a subscriber has credit and/or checking accounts for paying bills.
Acquirer computer 505 is controlled and maintained by an acquirer bank with which one or more o~ the payees have accounts.
Re~erring now to Fig. 6, upon receiving bill payment data ~rom subscribers through network 110, server computer 160 analyzes the payment data, as indicated at step 603. The analysis involves organizing the payments by the scheduled payment dates, accounting ~or those payments made on the credit and/or checking accounts, and separately accounting for those payment~ made to each payee. At the end o~ each day, server computer 160 transmits to each subscriber bank in~ormation about the individual payments o~ the day drawn on its accounts, and requests payment authoriza-tion ~rom the subscriber bank through computer 503 ~or example, as indicated at step 605. In return, server computer 160 at step 607 receives ~rom subscriber bank computer 503 authorizations o~ valid payments, plus credit or debit declines of invalid payments determined by the subscriber bank. The invalidity o~ payments may result ~rom subscribers' overdrafts o~ checking accounts, ~raudulent uses of stolen account numbers, overextensions o~ credit limits, etc. At step 609, server computer 160 identi~ies those subscribers responsible ~or the invalid payments. Server computer 160 then transmits e-mail messages about the invalid payments to the respective subscribers' electronic addresses, as indicated at step 610. At step 611, server computer 160 sends the authorized payment , WO97/16798 PCT~S96/17799 in~ormation to settlement network 507. In a conventional manner, the settlement network ~orwards the in~ormation and moves ~unds as appropriate between subscriber banks' computers (including computer 503) and acquirer banks' computers (including computer 505).
Each acquirer bank then credits the received ~unds to the correspo~;n~ payees, accounts, less any transaction ~ees.
Fig. 7 illustrates a typical subscriber's credit card statement wherein a payment to Electric Co., which was made on the subscriber's credit account, is numerically denoted 701.
A second embodiment o~ the invention will now be described. This second embodiment di~ers ~rom the previous embodiment principally in that the electronic bill payment service in this embodiment is not provided using a home page on WWW to be accessed by subscribers.
Rather, the inventive service is realized by e-mail communications over Internet network 110 between server computer 160 and the subscribers.
In this second embodiment, a~ter receiving the billing data ~rom bill capture device 150, server computer 160 ~ormats the data in the ~orm o~ e-mail messages, in accordance with the standard Internet speci~ications. These e-mail messages, hereina~ter re~erred to as "electronic bills", contain the bill in~ormation. Like e-mail, the electronic bills are transmitted over network 110 to the respective subscribers at their e-mail addresses. Each electronic bill, however, has a message header cont~;n;ng an identi~ication having a predetermined bit pattern ~or distinguishing the electronic bill ~rom other e-mail.
In addition, the message h~e~ also contains status bits re~lecting the current statuses concerning the electronic bill. For example, one o~ these bits, termed the "open" bit, indicates whether the bill has -WO97/16798 PCT~S96/17799 ever been opened or read by the subscriber. The value of the open bit is initially set to 0, indicating that it has never been read. Another bit, termed the "pay"
bit, indicates whether the bill has ever been authorized to be paid. The value of the pay bit is also set to 0 initially, indicating that it has never been authorized to be paid.
In this illustrative embodiment, the on-line software package installed on PC l00 includes an electronic bill payment program to be described. With the installed so~tware package, the subscriber manages to access network ll0 through the aforementioned gateway computer, and take advantage o~ the electronic bill payment service. To initiate the service, the gateway computer retrieves a copy of the electronic bill payment program from PC l00 and runs the program.
When the subscriber enters the program the first time, it prompts the subscriber through an initialization process where certain in~ormation similar to that in the Eirst embodiment i8 elicited. After the initialization process, all the information provided by the subscriber is formatted in an e-mail message. This message is then transmitted through network ll0 to server computer 160 for service enrollment. Similar to the ~irst embodiment, as part o~ the initialization process, the subscriber also receives by e-mail or regular mail a userID and password, a copy of which is stored at the gateway computer. The purpose of the userID and password is to identify the subscriber and safeguard against unauthorized access to the subscriber's electronic bills, which are saved in a depository in the gateway computer. Again, the initialization process can be repeatedly invoked to add or delete payees, and to change other information.
On the service starting date designated by the subscriber and thereafter, as soon as the billing data -W O 97/16798 PCT~US96/17799 concerning the subscriber is received, server computer ~ 160 ~ormats the data in the ~orm of electronic bills and ~orwards the bills to the subscriber's e-mail ~ address through network 110. Advantageously, ~rom net~ork 110, the subQcr~ber caP. re~ei~e and cpen the electronic bills like regular e-mail whenever and wherever he/she has a chance to get on-line with a PC
(not necessarily PC 100) having a copy o~ the on-line software package including the electronic bill payment program.
Utilizing a standard receipt con~irmation ~eature o~ the e-mail service, server computer 160 would receive an acknowledgement message through network 110 when the electronic bill is received and opened by the subscriber. This acknowledgement message includes a time stamp indicating the date and time when the electronic bill was opened, the subscriber's e-mail address indicating where the acknowledgement comes ~rom, and the in~ormation in the "subject" field o~ the electronic bill, which identi~ies the bill by including the payee' 8 name, bill amount and payment due date. In accordance with another aspect o~ the invention, the EBSC is alerted by computer 160 to those electronic bills whose acknowledgement messages have not been received before their respective due dates. The alert may take the ~orm of a daily print-out o~ the outst~n~;ng bills ~rom computer 160. Upon reading the print-out, in order to avoid overdue payments, the EBSC
will attempt to in~orm the subscriber o~ his/her outst~n~;ng bills by other means of communications such as regular mail.
In operation, upon invocation the electronic bill payment program ~irst checks ~or any electronic bills unopened by the subscriber, as indicated at step 801 in Fig. 8A. This is done by reading the open status bits o~ all the electronic bills saved including the newly CA 02236432 l998-04-30 W O 97/16798 PCTrUS96/17799 arrived bills. If any unopened bill is detected, the program at step 803 causes display 107 to exhibit an announcement such as "YOU HAVE UNOPENED BILLS!" to alert the subscriber to read the bills. In either event, the program proceeds to step 805 where the pay status bits of all the previously opened bills are checked to see whether they have been paid. If unpaid bills are detected, the program at step 807 causes display 107 to exhibit another announcement such as "YOU ~IAVE UNPAID BILLS!" to alert the subscribers that not all the opened bills have been paid. In either event, the program proceeds to step 809 where it causes display 107 to exhibit menu 901 as shown in Fig. 9.
Menu 901 offers four options from which the subscriber may select. These options include option A
which allows the subscriber to view and/or pay bills, option B which allows the subscriber to view confirmations of bill payments, option C which allows the subscriber to view A~m;n;strative messages from server computer 160, and option D which allows the subscriber to exit the electronic bill payment program.
The options are selected by pressing the corresponding letter on keyboard 109, ~ollowed by the "Enter" key.
Referring brie~ly back to Fig. 8A, the electronic bill payment program at step 810 waits i~or an option entry by the subscriber. If selection of an option other than option D is detected at step 811, the program then prompts for a userID and password to veri~y the subscriber's access authorization, as indicated at step 813 in Fig. 8B. Otherwise, the program comes to an end.
At step 813, when a userID and password are entered on PC 100, the entries are checked against the userID and password previously stored. Again, the subscriber is allowed to have a m~; mllm of three -WO97/16798 PCT~S96/17799 attempts to enter the correct userID and password ~ be~ore the program terminates.
A~ter the correct userID and password have been - entered and veri~ied, i~ option A has been selected, the program proceeds to step 817 where it causes display 107 to list all the unopened bills together with the unpaid bills. This list is illustratively shown in Fig. 10. Each bill is exhibited in a summarized ~orm based on the in~ormation o~ its "subject" ~ield indicating the payee's name, bill amount and due date.
In this example, the subscriber has three unopened and/or unpaid bills which are arranged in chronological order with the bill having the earliest due date listed ~irst. Bills previously unopened are indicated by asterisks. In this instance, bill no. 3 is marked with an asterisk as it has never been opened by the subscriber.
A highlighting capability is provided to ~acilitate the opening o~ a particular bill as listed.
The subscriber may open the electronic bill currently highlighted by highlighter 1003 (bill no. 2 in this instance) by pressing the "Enter" key on keyboard 109.
Highlighter 1003 may be moved by pressing directional (up-arrow and down-arrow) keys to highlight a dif~erent listed bill. It will, however, be appreciated that a person skilled in the art may use, instead o~ the highlighting capability ~ust described, an indicator movable by mouse 113 (or a track ball, or any other similar device) to point at a desirable, listed bill on the screen, and click open the bill.
Once the subscriber chooses to open a bill which has never been opened, its open status bit value is changed ~rom "0" to "1" to re~lect the new "opened"
status. In addition, an acknowledgement message as previously described is sent to server computer 160 ,.
WO97/l6798 PCT~S96/17799 through network 110 after the bill i5 opened the first time.
Referring to Figs. 8B and 11, if it is detected that a bill from the list is selectively opened at step 819, the program at step 821 causes display 107 to exhibit the electronic bill, which is illustratively shown in Fig. 11. The electronic bill, as illustrated, includes EBSC's e-mail address 1101, subscriber's e-mail address 1103, subject field 1105, and service account number 1109 and other bill information similar to that of Fig. 4. It should be pointed out that subject field 1105 contains the concise information on the payee's name, bill amount and due date as mentioned above. If the program detects any other action by the subscriber on keyboard 109 than opening an electronic bill at step 819, the program returns to step 809.
At step 823 following step 821, the subscriber is queried whether he/she wants to authorize the payment of the bill. I~ the subscriber presses "N" on keyboard 109, indicating a negative response, the program again returns to step 809, and the pay status bit value r~m~;n~ to be "0" as the bill rem~;n~ unpaid.
Otherwise if the subscriber presses "Y", indicating an affirmative response, the program prompts for the preferred method of payment, as indicated at step 825.
Similar to the first embo~;m~nt, the subscriber is allowed to pay the bill by using either checking or credit account. After the preferred method of payment is indicated, computer 160 retrieves from its memory the corresponding account information, as indicated at step 827. The program then proceeds to step 829 where the ~ubscriber is prompted for the payment date and payment amount. Since the subscriber would most likely set the payment date to be the due date, and the payment amount to be the bill amount, the due date and CA 02236432 l998-04-30 W O 97/16798 PCTrUS96/17799 the bill amount are conveniently set to be the de~ault values.
The electronic bill payment service in this embodiment also provides ~or a grievance process whereby the subscriber may put the entire or a partial bill amount in dispute. To that end, the subscriber may enter ~or the payment amount, instead o~ the de~ault value ' any value ~rom zero up to the bill amount, exclusive. Thus, ii~ at step 831 the program detects that the payment amount entered i6 less than the de~ault value, the program queries whether the partial payment is permitted by the payee, as indicated at step 832. If the response is negative, the subscriber is prompted ~or an explanation ~or the de:Eiciency, as indicated at step 833. As mentioned bef~ore, the subscriber' 8 explanation would be conveyed by EBSC to the appropriate payees. In any event, the payment is transmitted to server computer 160 in the ~orm of reply e-mail through network 110, as indicated at step 835. The pay status bit value oE the electronic bill just paid is accordingly changed ~rom "0~' to "1" to re~lect the new "paid" status o~ the bill. The p~ all. then returns to step 809.
Server computer 160 opens the payment response as soon as it is received ~rom network 110. Using the a~orementioned receipt con~irmation ~eature o~ e-mail, when the payment response in the ~orm o~ reply e-mail is opened by server computer 160, an acknowledgement message con~irming the receipt o~ the response is returned to the subscriber. The acknowledgement message indicates the date and time when the payment response was opened, and the payee's name, payment amount and due date, as appeared in the subject ~ield o~ the reply e-mail.
Thus, at step 811, i~ option B o~ Fig. 9 is selected, the electronic bill payment program causes CA 02236432 l998-04-30 W O 97/16798 PCTrUS96/17799 display 107 to list the acknowledgement messages concerning payments previously sent, as indicated at step 841. These acknowledgement messages serve as confirmations o~ the payments.
For the sake of completeness, if option C o~
Fig. 9 is selected at step 811, the electronic bill payment program proceeds to step 851 where it causes display 107 to exhibit A~m;n;strative messages including personal messages from EBSC, which were sent by server computer 160 to the subscriber in the ~orm of e-mail.
For public information, EBSC provides an anonymous file transfer protocol tFTP) site within server computer 160, where a description of the present electronic bill payment service including current service ~unctions, rules and procedures, etc., is available to the service subscribers, and the Internet users in general.
Upon receiving bill payment respon~es in the form o:E e-mail from network 110, server computer 160 analyzes the response data and settles the bill payments in a similar m~nn~r described above. However, for invalid payments, server computer 160 retransmits the corresponding electronic bills to the respective subscribers~ e-mail addresses. The ~ormat of the retransmitted electronic bills is similar to the original bills, except that it is additionally indicated in the "subject" of the retransmitted bills that these are "REPOSTED" bills. These retransmitted bills, when received at the subscribers' e-mail addresses, are treated like newly arrived electronic bills. Nonetheless, when the subscribers list the outst~n~;ng bills on the screen, the word "REPOSTED"
will appear in the summaries of the retransmitted bills to alert the subscribers. When the subscribers open -WO97/16798 PCT~S96/17799 the retransmitted bills, explanations ~or the invalid payments will appear at the beginning o~ the bills.
The ~oregoing merely illustrates the principles of the invention. It will thus be appreciated that those skilled in the art will be able to devise numerous systems and methods which, although not explicitly shown or described herein, embody the principles o~ the invention and are thus within the spirit and scope o~
the invention.
For example, it will be appreciated that network llO may not necessarily be the Internet, but may be a telephone network, a private network or other communications network through which subscribers are able to communicate with server computer 160.
Backqround of the Invention Each household needs to spend a significant amount of time each month to respond to numerous bills including utility bills, credit card bills, mortgage payments, car loan payments, insurance payments, etc.
The most common method of payment of the bills is writing paper checks for the appropriate amounts and mailing such checks to payees. This method is labor intensive and time consuming for a bill-payer, and must be done on multiple occasions each month since the bills do not normally arrive or become due on the same date. In addition, the bill-payer has to absorb the costs o~ postage in mailing the paper checks to payees.
Paper checks processing also entails significant costs to the payees who receive and handle remittances in this manner.
Attempts have been made to improve the e~ficiency o~ the bill payment method. One such attempt involves use of telephone systems ~or handling the bill payment.
The advanced telephone bill-paying systems incorporate voice response technology to obviate the need o~ a hllm~n operator's answering the calls. Most of the telephone bill-paying systems are run by individual banks, with which the users have accounts. Guided by phone instructions, a user normally provides the system with in~ormation on di~erent bills to be paid, including identities o~ the payees and the bill amounts.
Nonetheless, telephone bill-paying systems have serious limitations because o~ a lack o~ a visual inter~ace or display. Sophisticated service options are impractical because o~ their reliance on complex br~nch;ng alternatives requiring depression o~ a series o~ keys on the telephone keypad, which may cause con~usion and annoyance to the users. In addition, authorization, con~irmation and review o~ payments are bothersome because the users need to enter the identities of the payees by their code numbers, which may not be easily memorizable.
As personal computers (PC's) ~ind their way into people's homes, techniques ~or bill payment using a personal computer have emerged. One such technique is disclosed in U.S. Patent No. 5,220,501 issued June 15, 1993 to Lawlor et al. In accordance with this technique, the user utilizes a personal computer to communicate bill payment requests to a central computer operated by a bill-paying service provider. The central computer analyzes and processes the requests which are typically ~or many payments at a time. The in~ormation about these payments including sche~llled payment dates is stored in a database in the central computer. on the scheduled payment dates, the central computer generates and co~mlln;cates electronic ~unds trans~er requests through an automated clearing house (ACH) or automatic teller machine (ATM) network to the bank with which the user has an account, thereby debiting the user's account ~or the payments. The central computer then distributes the ~unds received to the appropriate payees.
Thus, some of the major shortcomings o~ the prior-art bill paying techniques are that a user is required -W097/16798 PCT~S96117799 to inconveniently go through multiple steps to have ~ their bills paid (including m~nll~lly receiving each bill, reviewing and storing it), and that the ~ techniques rely on the user to provide the bill information to initiate the bill-paying process. In the event that the user misplaces a bill, or i6 away from home on a business trip or vacation, without receiving bills in the mail, the bills will be unpaid and may become overdue. Overdue bills may incur finance charges and/or cause other inconveniences, e.g., the trouble of getting cancelled or terminated services reinstated. The inflexibility of bill payment imposed by the prior art techniques is attributable to their failure to take full advantage of advanced PC and communications technologies.
Accordingly, it is desirable to have a system and method whereby a user may conveniently and reliably receive the bills from any location and, at the ~ame time, efficiently make the bill payment by taking full advantage of the advanced technologies.
Summary of the Invention In a bill delivery and payment system in accordance with the invention, the payees no longer mail the bills to the system users, but securely deliver the bill information over a communications network, such as the well-known Internet network, telephone network, or private network, which the users may conveniently access. To that end, a "bill capture"
device is employed to collect from the payees the bill information concerning the users, which includes the amounts of individual bills, the payment due dates, etc. In a preferred embodiment, the collected informa-tion is provided to a server computer connected to the communications network. The bill information may be accessed by users using "browser" software in the case W O 97/16798 PCTnUS96/17799 of the Internet (or in particular the World Wide Web (WWW)), or by direct access in the case of a telephone network or private network. In the event that the bill information i5 not accessed ai~ter it is available for a predetermined period of time, the server computer will send a message in the form of an e-mail communication to a user that his/her bills are awaiting payment.
Upon accessing the server computer over the communications network, the users may respond by authorizing payments to selected payees. The payments are pre~erably made directly from the users payment accounts including credit and checking accounts. The user's response contains payment data including the payment type (e.g., credit or checking), payment amount, desired payment date, etc.
In an alternative embodiment, the server computer formats the bill information in the form of e-mail messages and deliver them to the e-mail addresses of the responsible users. The users may go on-line to retrieve the "electronic bills" addressed to them, and respond by sending to the server computer e-mail messages cont~;n;ng the payment data.
In either embodiment, after receiving the payment data ~rom a user, the server computer takes action to ensure settlement of funds between the user's account and the appropriate payees. The server computer also electronically routes the payment information to the payee to update its records.
Advantageously, with this invention, a user is able to electronically receive, review and pay the bills through a series o~ brief on-line sessions each month.
Brief DescriPtion of the Drawinqs Further objects, features and advantages of the invention will become apparent ~rom the following W O 97/16798 PCTrUS96/17799 detailed description taken in conjunction with the ~ accompanying figures showing illustrative embodiments of the invention, in which:
Figs. 1 and 5 combinedly illustrate a system wherein bills are electronically presented and paid over a communications network in accordance with the nvention;
Figs. 2A and 2B combinedly show a flow chart depicting the steps of an electronic bill payment program run on a server computer in a first embodiment of the system of Figs. 1 and 5;
Fig. 3 is a representation of a home page on the World Wide Web (WWW) of the Internet accessible by users in the first embodiment of the system of Figs. 1 and 5;
Fig. 4 is a display of a bill to be paid by a user in the first embodiment of the system of Figs. 1 and 5;
Fig. 5 is a block diagram including the server computer, a subscriber bank computer and an acquirer computer, and their interconnection in accordance with the invention;
Fig. 6 is a flow chart depicting a process run by the server computer;
Fig. 7 is a credit card statement documenting a bill payment using the system of Figs. 1 and 5;
Figs. 8A and 8B combinedly show a flow chart depicting the steps of a program for making electronic bill payments in a second embodiment of the system of Figs. 1 and 5;
Fig. 9 is a menu of options provided by the program of Figs. 8A and 8B;
Fig. 10 is a display presenting electronic bills in a summary format, which is triggered by the program of Figs. 8A and 8B; and Fig. 11 is a display showing an electronic bill in the second embodiment of the system of Figs. 1 and 5;
Throughout the figures, the same re~erence numerals and characters, unless otherwise stated, are used to denote like features, elements, components or portions o~ the illustrated embodiments. Moreover, while the subject invention will now be described in detail with reference to the ~igures, it is done 80 in connection with the illustrative embodiments. It is intended that changes and modi~ications can be made to the described embodiments without departing ~rom the true scope and spirit of the subject invention as de~ined by the appended claims.
Detailed DescriPtion The present invention is directed to a technique ~or delivery o~ bills over a communications network, and payment o~ the bills through the network using a personal computer (PC).
Over the past decade, PC's have become relatively power~ul and inexpensive, and have ~ound their way into a signi~icant number of people~s homes. With a modem, a PC user can commlln;cate with other computers through communications networks, and access many resources on the so-called "In~ormation Superhighway." Companies such as America Online, CompuServe, and Prodigy which traditionally provided so-calied "content" over proprietary networks have begun to provide access by a PC user to an expansive international network o~
networks known as the Internet. The Internet comprises a series o~ some 50,000 computer communications networks around the world, and provides connectivity between more than 38 million computer users, which number is predicted to grow to 100 million by 1998.
The on-line services typically provide, on the "net,"
~unctionality ~uch as electronic mail (e-mail), file trans~er protocol (~tp), and World Wide Web (WWW) access.
-W097/l6798 PCT~S96/17799 WWW is a graphical subnetwork of the Internet.
With common "web browser" software o~ the type of Mosaic or Netscape Navigator, the users may easily access Internet in~ormation and services on WWW. The web browser handles the ~unction of locating and targeting in~ormation on the Internet and displaying in~ormation provided by a web server. WWW utilizes the technology called "hypertext" to organize, search and present in~ormation on the Internet. Using the browser, a user can select a word ("hypertext word") ~rom a viewed document, and be linked to another document ~eaturing in~ormation related to the word.
These links are within the Web server domain and result in a progressively deeper search or base o~ choices.
In the business arena, a service provider can, with an Internet address and a hypertext editor, develop a hypertext document called a "home page", which a user may explore when he/she visits the provider's Web server. This home page ~urnishes in~ormation about the service of~ered by the provider through use o~ graphic images, sound, hyperlink choices, etc. With that in~ormation, the user is guided through the home page to select the service and desired service ~eatures.
In Fig. 1, PC 100 is illustratively employed by a subscriber o~ the electronic bill payment ~ervice in accordance with the invention, to access Internet network 110 via a dial-up link. PC 100 is a conven-tional personal computer and contains, inter alia, microprocessor 101; memory 103 ~or storing data, and programs comprising standard on-line service software package including browser software ~or accessing in~ormation and services on WWW; modem 105 ~or establishing the dial-up link to a gateway computer (not shown) connected to the network; display 107;
keyboard 109 and mouse 113. The gateway computer is W O 97/16798 PCTnUS96/17799 maintained and controlled by an on-line service provider, e.g., America Online, CompuServe, Prodigy and such, to ~acilitate the on-line access to network 110.
Also connected to network 110 is server computer 160 controlled and maintained by an electronic bill service company (EBSC), which de~ines the ~eatures and requirements o~ the electronic bill payment service in accordance with the invention, and oversees the service. Among other things, computer 160 compri~es communications capabilities which include af~ording WWW access and sending mes~ages in an e-mail ~ormat to the ~ervice subscribers over network 110.
Traditionally, insurance companies, ~inancial institutions such as banks, and utility companies such as telephone, electric and gas companies bill their customers ~or payments o~ insurance premiums, loans, utility ~ervices, etc. The billing is accomplished by mailing to the customers itemized bills. A~ter receiving the bills in the mail, the customers pay the respective payees, most often by paper checks through the mail.
In accordance with the invention, EBSC has negotiated with selected payees participating in the electronic bill payment service such that the payees no longer mail the bills to the subscribers o~ the ~ervice, but provide the billing data concerning the subscribers to bill capture device 150 which may be a conventional computer. In practice, this bill capture device could be made part of server computer 160.
Payee computers 170-1 through -K communicate with device 150 pursuant to an agreed-upon protocol twhere K is the number o~ participating payees), and periodically download the billing data to the device through transmission links or magnetic tapes. Device 150 collects and processes bill images ~rom the -W097/~6798 PCT~S96/17799 participating payees after the images are created, but before they are printed, to extract the billing data.
The billing data is transmitted from device 150 to server computer 160, via which the subscribers are able to access and "browse" their bills on WWW, and pay the bills using one or more accounts such a6 credit, checking, and NOW accounts, home equity lines of credit, and any other accounts from which funds may be drawn. The billing data is stored in such a form that the subscribers are allowed to view full graphics of their bills on PC's, print the bills on printers connected thereto, and download them for storage.
Payment transactions are routed from server computer 160 to another network or system such as MasterCard's Banknet, MasterCard Debit Switch system or the automated clearing house (ACH) for credit and/or debit authorization. Clearing and settlement of the transactions with the appropriate payees are then performed in a conventional m~nner~
Thus, with the web browser software installed on PC 100, the subscriber is able to access network 110 through the gateway computer to take advantage of the electronic bill payment service. To register for the bill payment service, the subscriber visits a service registration home page on WWW at a predetermined uniform resource locator (URL), the address for the home page. This home page is preprogrammed on server computer 160 to elicit necessary information from the subscriber to start the service subscription.
Instructed by an operating program in server computer 160, the latter prompts the subscriber through an initialization process where the subscriber is required to enter (a) the names of selected payees to which payments will be made electronically, (b) personal information including the name, address, telephone number, and social security number of the subscriber W O 97/16798 PCT~US96/17799 which enables the payees to suf~iciently identi~y the subscriber, (c) the e-mail address o~ the subscriber, (d) the desirable service starting date, and (e) in~ormation about the subscriber's credit and checking accounts. Such information includes the identity of the bank(s) with which the subscriber has the accounts, and the account numbers. The service starting date must be at least a predetermined period ~rom the present to allow EBSC to arrange with the selected payees to make the transition to s~n~;ng bill in~or-mation to bill capture device 150. The registration home page also a~ords the subscriber a service ~m~tration whereby the subscriber is familiarized with the electronic bill payment service ~eatures.
A~ter the initialization process, a second URL o~
a particular EBSC web site for bill payment is transmitted to the subscriber via either e-mail or regular mail. The subscriber also receives a userID
and password. The userID is ~or identi~ying the subscriber when he or she subsequently logs on the server computer to utilize the electronic bill payment service, and the password is ~or sa~eguarding against unauthorized access to the subscriber's bills cont~;n;ng personal in~ormation, and against unauthorized payment of such bills.
On the service starting date and therea~ter, as soon as the bill in~ormation concerning the subscriber is received, bill capture device 150 processes the in~ormation and transmits billing data to server computer 160 for access by the subscriber. Server computer tracks the due date o~ each bill o~ the subscriber. In the event that the subscriber does not log on the service and a bill is due within a predetermined period o~ time, server computer 160 will send e-mail or regular mail to bring the bill to the subscriber's attention.
, W O 97/16798 PCT~US96/17799 An electronic bill payment program run in server computer 160 will now be described. This program is invoked when a subscriber visits the EBSC's bill payment web site. Instructed by the electronic bill payment program, server computer 160 prompts the subscriber ~or a userID ~or his/her identi~ication, and a password to veri~y his/her access authorization, as indicated at step 305 in Fig. 2A. At step 310, when a userID and password are entered, the entries are veri~ied by server computer 160. I~ either entry is not verified, the program prompts ~or the entries again in case that they were mistyped or partially ~orgotten.
The subscriber is allowed to have a maximum of three attempts to enter the correct userID and password be~ore the program terminates.
A~ter the correct userID and password have been entered and veri~ied, the program at step 312 invokes a home page illustrated in Fig. 3. As shown in Fig. 3, the home page presents six choices in textual and graphical ~orm. These choices are illustratively "Obtain Account Balance" 201, "Receive and Pay Bills"
203, "Select New Payees" 205, "Update Electronic Account Register" 207, "Help" 209 and "Review Payments"
211. Any o~ such choices is selected by operating on mouse 113 (or its keystroke equivalent or a trackball or any other similar indicator) connected to PC 100 to point at and click on the desired choice. At step 314, the program monitors whether one of the six choices on the home page is selected. I~ "Receive and Pay Bills"
choice 203 is selected, the program proceeds to step 315 in Fig. 2B where server computer 160 causes display 107 to pull up an image o~ a ~irst unpaid bill. The ~irst bill, as displayed, is shown in Fig. 4 and illustratively an electric bill ~rom Electric Co. In this pre~erred embodiment, all the unpaid bills are arranged in chronological order with the bill having W O 97/16798 PCT~US96117799 the earliest due date displayed first. A subscriber may review other bills by clicking on up-arrow indicator 401 or down-arrow indicator 403 to retrieve the earlier or later bills.
As shown in Fig. 4, options regarding payment of the electric bill are presented in three columns, namely, "Pay Date" 407, "Payment Method" 409 and "Amount" 411. The payment is deemed to have been authorized by the subscriber only when an option in each of the three columns is selected. Referring to Figs. 2A and 2B along with Fig. 4, at step 320, server computer 160 monitors whether a "Today" option in "Pay Date" column 407 is selected. If such an option is selected, as in this example, server computer 160 records the current date as the date of payment, as indicated at step 325. Otherwise i~ the "Another Date"
option is selected, server computer 160 prompts the subscriber to enter a future date as the payment date, as indicated at step 330.
At step 332, computer 160 determines whether a "Credit Card" option in "Payment Method" column 409 is selected to be the method of payment. If such an option is selected, as in this example, computer 160 retrieves ~rom its memory the subscriber's credit account information, as indicated at step 335.
Otherwise if the "Checking Account" option is selected as the payment method, server computer 160 retrieves ~rom its memory the subscriber's checking account information, as indicated at step 340.
At step 338, computer 160 determines whether a nFull" option in "Amount" column 410 is selected. If such an option is selected, as in this example, server computer 160 retrieves ~rom its memory the full bill amount as the payment amount, as indicated at step 345.
Otherwise if an "Allowed Partial" option is selected, assuming that the billing account is a recurring or CA 02236432 l998-04-30 installment account where the subscriber is authorized ~ by the payee to make partial payment6, server computer 160 prompts :Eor the allowed partial payment amount, as - indicated at step 355.
In accordance.with another aspect o~ the invention, the electronic bill payment ~ervice may provide ~or a grievance process whereby the ~ubscriber may put the entire or a partial bill amount in dispute.
To that end, the subscriber may select the "Grievance"
option. In response, server computer 160 prompts at step 360 i~or a payment amount, :Eor which the subscriber may enter any value ~rom zero up to the ~ull bill amount, exclusive. The subscriber is also prompted ~or an explanation for the de~iciency which would be conveyed by EBSC to the appropriate payee. In any event, the payment entered by the subscriber is recorded by server computer 160 at step 370.
With the payment date, payment method and payment amount in~ormation, server computer 160 8chedule8 the bill :Eor payment, as indicated at step 375. At the same time, server computer 160 registers in a memory space allocated to the subscriber in~ormation about each payment including the scheduled payment date, the identity o~ the payee, and the payment amount, as indicated at step 378. The registered in:Eormation is for the subscriber' 5 records and may be reviewed by the subscriber's selecting "Review Payments" choice 211.
Because the memory space allocated to the subscriber is limited, only payment in~ormation registered within a predetermined period o~ time is retained.
When the payment transaction is executed on the scheduled payment date as indicated at step 379, server computer 160 transmits an e-mail message to the subscriber con~irming the bill payment, as indicated at step 380.
WO97/16798 PCT~S96/17799 Returning to step 314, if "Obtain Account Balance"
choice 201 is selected, based on the account information previously provided by the subscriber, server computer 160 retrieves at step 385 the available checking and credit account balances f rom the identi~ied subscriber bank(s) via a connection to be described. At step 390, server computer causes display 107 to show the account balances. The balance in~ormation is important as the subscriber may check the information be~ore he/she decides to pay bills using the credit or checking account, thereby avoiding a declined credit or debit transaction or an overdraft of the checking account.
At step 314, if "Update Electronic Account Register" choice 207 is selected, server computer 160 retrieves confirmed payment data and causes an update, taking into account the confirmed payments, to an electronic account register provided by the subscriber~s financial management software of the type of QUICKEN, MICROSOFT MONEY or MANAGING YOUR MONEY
preloaded on PC 100. Server computer 160 also causes the software to show the updated register on display 107, as indicated at step 394.
If "Review Payments" choice 211 is selected at step 314, server computer 160 retrieves the confirmed payment data, and the payment records created at step 378 described above, and causes display 107 to show records of payment with indications of "con~irmed"
status for those payments which were confirmed, as indicated at step 393.
I~ "Help" choice 209 is selected at step 314, server computer 160 causes display 107 to present a description of the electronic bill payment service including current service functions, rules and procedures, etc., as indicated at step 395.
CA 02236432 l998-04-30 I~ "Select New Payees" choice 205 is selected at step 314, server computer 160 causes display 107 to list all the payees previously identi~ied by the subscriber, and enables the subscriber to add new payees to or delete selected payees ~rom the list, as indicated at step 399. Tipon learning the changes in the payee list, the personnel o~ the EBSC accordingly establishes or cancels the electronic bill payment service with the corresponding payees.
As mentioned above, the subscribers may pay the electronic bills by their credit accounts. However, to prevent ~raud, security measures are built in to the operating program of server computer 160 such that use o~ a credit card account to pay credit card bills hav-ing the same credit card account number is thwarted by the so~tware. In addition, since Internet network 110 is a packet-switched network wherein a message may be routed through many di~erent nodes be~ore reaching its destination, a risk o~ having a message containing the credit or checking account in~ormation intercepted on the Internet arises. Although such a message is transmitted only once during the service registration process, to eliminate such a risk, a well-known public key cryptographic algorithm, such as the RSA algorithm, may be utilized by the subscriber to encrypt communi-cations to server computer 160. The latter may also use the same algorithm to encrypt the e-mail messages sent to the subscribers. Named a~ter its developers --Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman -- the RSA algorithm uses a private key and a public key to encrypt and decrypt messages. The keys are generated mathematically in part by combining prime numbers. For details on the RSA algorithm and its application, one may re~er to U.S. Patent No. 4,405,829 issued September 20, 1983 to Rivest et al., which is hereby incorporated by re~erence.
-WO97/16798 PCT~S96/17799 Fig. 5 illustrates a connection o~ server computer 160 to subscriber bank computer 503 and acquirer computer 505 through settlement network 507. The latter includes conventional ACH and Ma6terCard's Banknet. Subscriber bank computer 503 is controlled and maintained by a bank with which a subscriber has credit and/or checking accounts for paying bills.
Acquirer computer 505 is controlled and maintained by an acquirer bank with which one or more o~ the payees have accounts.
Re~erring now to Fig. 6, upon receiving bill payment data ~rom subscribers through network 110, server computer 160 analyzes the payment data, as indicated at step 603. The analysis involves organizing the payments by the scheduled payment dates, accounting ~or those payments made on the credit and/or checking accounts, and separately accounting for those payment~ made to each payee. At the end o~ each day, server computer 160 transmits to each subscriber bank in~ormation about the individual payments o~ the day drawn on its accounts, and requests payment authoriza-tion ~rom the subscriber bank through computer 503 ~or example, as indicated at step 605. In return, server computer 160 at step 607 receives ~rom subscriber bank computer 503 authorizations o~ valid payments, plus credit or debit declines of invalid payments determined by the subscriber bank. The invalidity o~ payments may result ~rom subscribers' overdrafts o~ checking accounts, ~raudulent uses of stolen account numbers, overextensions o~ credit limits, etc. At step 609, server computer 160 identi~ies those subscribers responsible ~or the invalid payments. Server computer 160 then transmits e-mail messages about the invalid payments to the respective subscribers' electronic addresses, as indicated at step 610. At step 611, server computer 160 sends the authorized payment , WO97/16798 PCT~S96/17799 in~ormation to settlement network 507. In a conventional manner, the settlement network ~orwards the in~ormation and moves ~unds as appropriate between subscriber banks' computers (including computer 503) and acquirer banks' computers (including computer 505).
Each acquirer bank then credits the received ~unds to the correspo~;n~ payees, accounts, less any transaction ~ees.
Fig. 7 illustrates a typical subscriber's credit card statement wherein a payment to Electric Co., which was made on the subscriber's credit account, is numerically denoted 701.
A second embodiment o~ the invention will now be described. This second embodiment di~ers ~rom the previous embodiment principally in that the electronic bill payment service in this embodiment is not provided using a home page on WWW to be accessed by subscribers.
Rather, the inventive service is realized by e-mail communications over Internet network 110 between server computer 160 and the subscribers.
In this second embodiment, a~ter receiving the billing data ~rom bill capture device 150, server computer 160 ~ormats the data in the ~orm o~ e-mail messages, in accordance with the standard Internet speci~ications. These e-mail messages, hereina~ter re~erred to as "electronic bills", contain the bill in~ormation. Like e-mail, the electronic bills are transmitted over network 110 to the respective subscribers at their e-mail addresses. Each electronic bill, however, has a message header cont~;n;ng an identi~ication having a predetermined bit pattern ~or distinguishing the electronic bill ~rom other e-mail.
In addition, the message h~e~ also contains status bits re~lecting the current statuses concerning the electronic bill. For example, one o~ these bits, termed the "open" bit, indicates whether the bill has -WO97/16798 PCT~S96/17799 ever been opened or read by the subscriber. The value of the open bit is initially set to 0, indicating that it has never been read. Another bit, termed the "pay"
bit, indicates whether the bill has ever been authorized to be paid. The value of the pay bit is also set to 0 initially, indicating that it has never been authorized to be paid.
In this illustrative embodiment, the on-line software package installed on PC l00 includes an electronic bill payment program to be described. With the installed so~tware package, the subscriber manages to access network ll0 through the aforementioned gateway computer, and take advantage o~ the electronic bill payment service. To initiate the service, the gateway computer retrieves a copy of the electronic bill payment program from PC l00 and runs the program.
When the subscriber enters the program the first time, it prompts the subscriber through an initialization process where certain in~ormation similar to that in the Eirst embodiment i8 elicited. After the initialization process, all the information provided by the subscriber is formatted in an e-mail message. This message is then transmitted through network ll0 to server computer 160 for service enrollment. Similar to the ~irst embodiment, as part o~ the initialization process, the subscriber also receives by e-mail or regular mail a userID and password, a copy of which is stored at the gateway computer. The purpose of the userID and password is to identify the subscriber and safeguard against unauthorized access to the subscriber's electronic bills, which are saved in a depository in the gateway computer. Again, the initialization process can be repeatedly invoked to add or delete payees, and to change other information.
On the service starting date designated by the subscriber and thereafter, as soon as the billing data -W O 97/16798 PCT~US96/17799 concerning the subscriber is received, server computer ~ 160 ~ormats the data in the ~orm of electronic bills and ~orwards the bills to the subscriber's e-mail ~ address through network 110. Advantageously, ~rom net~ork 110, the subQcr~ber caP. re~ei~e and cpen the electronic bills like regular e-mail whenever and wherever he/she has a chance to get on-line with a PC
(not necessarily PC 100) having a copy o~ the on-line software package including the electronic bill payment program.
Utilizing a standard receipt con~irmation ~eature o~ the e-mail service, server computer 160 would receive an acknowledgement message through network 110 when the electronic bill is received and opened by the subscriber. This acknowledgement message includes a time stamp indicating the date and time when the electronic bill was opened, the subscriber's e-mail address indicating where the acknowledgement comes ~rom, and the in~ormation in the "subject" field o~ the electronic bill, which identi~ies the bill by including the payee' 8 name, bill amount and payment due date. In accordance with another aspect o~ the invention, the EBSC is alerted by computer 160 to those electronic bills whose acknowledgement messages have not been received before their respective due dates. The alert may take the ~orm of a daily print-out o~ the outst~n~;ng bills ~rom computer 160. Upon reading the print-out, in order to avoid overdue payments, the EBSC
will attempt to in~orm the subscriber o~ his/her outst~n~;ng bills by other means of communications such as regular mail.
In operation, upon invocation the electronic bill payment program ~irst checks ~or any electronic bills unopened by the subscriber, as indicated at step 801 in Fig. 8A. This is done by reading the open status bits o~ all the electronic bills saved including the newly CA 02236432 l998-04-30 W O 97/16798 PCTrUS96/17799 arrived bills. If any unopened bill is detected, the program at step 803 causes display 107 to exhibit an announcement such as "YOU HAVE UNOPENED BILLS!" to alert the subscriber to read the bills. In either event, the program proceeds to step 805 where the pay status bits of all the previously opened bills are checked to see whether they have been paid. If unpaid bills are detected, the program at step 807 causes display 107 to exhibit another announcement such as "YOU ~IAVE UNPAID BILLS!" to alert the subscribers that not all the opened bills have been paid. In either event, the program proceeds to step 809 where it causes display 107 to exhibit menu 901 as shown in Fig. 9.
Menu 901 offers four options from which the subscriber may select. These options include option A
which allows the subscriber to view and/or pay bills, option B which allows the subscriber to view confirmations of bill payments, option C which allows the subscriber to view A~m;n;strative messages from server computer 160, and option D which allows the subscriber to exit the electronic bill payment program.
The options are selected by pressing the corresponding letter on keyboard 109, ~ollowed by the "Enter" key.
Referring brie~ly back to Fig. 8A, the electronic bill payment program at step 810 waits i~or an option entry by the subscriber. If selection of an option other than option D is detected at step 811, the program then prompts for a userID and password to veri~y the subscriber's access authorization, as indicated at step 813 in Fig. 8B. Otherwise, the program comes to an end.
At step 813, when a userID and password are entered on PC 100, the entries are checked against the userID and password previously stored. Again, the subscriber is allowed to have a m~; mllm of three -WO97/16798 PCT~S96/17799 attempts to enter the correct userID and password ~ be~ore the program terminates.
A~ter the correct userID and password have been - entered and veri~ied, i~ option A has been selected, the program proceeds to step 817 where it causes display 107 to list all the unopened bills together with the unpaid bills. This list is illustratively shown in Fig. 10. Each bill is exhibited in a summarized ~orm based on the in~ormation o~ its "subject" ~ield indicating the payee's name, bill amount and due date.
In this example, the subscriber has three unopened and/or unpaid bills which are arranged in chronological order with the bill having the earliest due date listed ~irst. Bills previously unopened are indicated by asterisks. In this instance, bill no. 3 is marked with an asterisk as it has never been opened by the subscriber.
A highlighting capability is provided to ~acilitate the opening o~ a particular bill as listed.
The subscriber may open the electronic bill currently highlighted by highlighter 1003 (bill no. 2 in this instance) by pressing the "Enter" key on keyboard 109.
Highlighter 1003 may be moved by pressing directional (up-arrow and down-arrow) keys to highlight a dif~erent listed bill. It will, however, be appreciated that a person skilled in the art may use, instead o~ the highlighting capability ~ust described, an indicator movable by mouse 113 (or a track ball, or any other similar device) to point at a desirable, listed bill on the screen, and click open the bill.
Once the subscriber chooses to open a bill which has never been opened, its open status bit value is changed ~rom "0" to "1" to re~lect the new "opened"
status. In addition, an acknowledgement message as previously described is sent to server computer 160 ,.
WO97/l6798 PCT~S96/17799 through network 110 after the bill i5 opened the first time.
Referring to Figs. 8B and 11, if it is detected that a bill from the list is selectively opened at step 819, the program at step 821 causes display 107 to exhibit the electronic bill, which is illustratively shown in Fig. 11. The electronic bill, as illustrated, includes EBSC's e-mail address 1101, subscriber's e-mail address 1103, subject field 1105, and service account number 1109 and other bill information similar to that of Fig. 4. It should be pointed out that subject field 1105 contains the concise information on the payee's name, bill amount and due date as mentioned above. If the program detects any other action by the subscriber on keyboard 109 than opening an electronic bill at step 819, the program returns to step 809.
At step 823 following step 821, the subscriber is queried whether he/she wants to authorize the payment of the bill. I~ the subscriber presses "N" on keyboard 109, indicating a negative response, the program again returns to step 809, and the pay status bit value r~m~;n~ to be "0" as the bill rem~;n~ unpaid.
Otherwise if the subscriber presses "Y", indicating an affirmative response, the program prompts for the preferred method of payment, as indicated at step 825.
Similar to the first embo~;m~nt, the subscriber is allowed to pay the bill by using either checking or credit account. After the preferred method of payment is indicated, computer 160 retrieves from its memory the corresponding account information, as indicated at step 827. The program then proceeds to step 829 where the ~ubscriber is prompted for the payment date and payment amount. Since the subscriber would most likely set the payment date to be the due date, and the payment amount to be the bill amount, the due date and CA 02236432 l998-04-30 W O 97/16798 PCTrUS96/17799 the bill amount are conveniently set to be the de~ault values.
The electronic bill payment service in this embodiment also provides ~or a grievance process whereby the subscriber may put the entire or a partial bill amount in dispute. To that end, the subscriber may enter ~or the payment amount, instead o~ the de~ault value ' any value ~rom zero up to the bill amount, exclusive. Thus, ii~ at step 831 the program detects that the payment amount entered i6 less than the de~ault value, the program queries whether the partial payment is permitted by the payee, as indicated at step 832. If the response is negative, the subscriber is prompted ~or an explanation ~or the de:Eiciency, as indicated at step 833. As mentioned bef~ore, the subscriber' 8 explanation would be conveyed by EBSC to the appropriate payees. In any event, the payment is transmitted to server computer 160 in the ~orm of reply e-mail through network 110, as indicated at step 835. The pay status bit value oE the electronic bill just paid is accordingly changed ~rom "0~' to "1" to re~lect the new "paid" status o~ the bill. The p~ all. then returns to step 809.
Server computer 160 opens the payment response as soon as it is received ~rom network 110. Using the a~orementioned receipt con~irmation ~eature o~ e-mail, when the payment response in the ~orm o~ reply e-mail is opened by server computer 160, an acknowledgement message con~irming the receipt o~ the response is returned to the subscriber. The acknowledgement message indicates the date and time when the payment response was opened, and the payee's name, payment amount and due date, as appeared in the subject ~ield o~ the reply e-mail.
Thus, at step 811, i~ option B o~ Fig. 9 is selected, the electronic bill payment program causes CA 02236432 l998-04-30 W O 97/16798 PCTrUS96/17799 display 107 to list the acknowledgement messages concerning payments previously sent, as indicated at step 841. These acknowledgement messages serve as confirmations o~ the payments.
For the sake of completeness, if option C o~
Fig. 9 is selected at step 811, the electronic bill payment program proceeds to step 851 where it causes display 107 to exhibit A~m;n;strative messages including personal messages from EBSC, which were sent by server computer 160 to the subscriber in the ~orm of e-mail.
For public information, EBSC provides an anonymous file transfer protocol tFTP) site within server computer 160, where a description of the present electronic bill payment service including current service ~unctions, rules and procedures, etc., is available to the service subscribers, and the Internet users in general.
Upon receiving bill payment respon~es in the form o:E e-mail from network 110, server computer 160 analyzes the response data and settles the bill payments in a similar m~nn~r described above. However, for invalid payments, server computer 160 retransmits the corresponding electronic bills to the respective subscribers~ e-mail addresses. The ~ormat of the retransmitted electronic bills is similar to the original bills, except that it is additionally indicated in the "subject" of the retransmitted bills that these are "REPOSTED" bills. These retransmitted bills, when received at the subscribers' e-mail addresses, are treated like newly arrived electronic bills. Nonetheless, when the subscribers list the outst~n~;ng bills on the screen, the word "REPOSTED"
will appear in the summaries of the retransmitted bills to alert the subscribers. When the subscribers open -WO97/16798 PCT~S96/17799 the retransmitted bills, explanations ~or the invalid payments will appear at the beginning o~ the bills.
The ~oregoing merely illustrates the principles of the invention. It will thus be appreciated that those skilled in the art will be able to devise numerous systems and methods which, although not explicitly shown or described herein, embody the principles o~ the invention and are thus within the spirit and scope o~
the invention.
For example, it will be appreciated that network llO may not necessarily be the Internet, but may be a telephone network, a private network or other communications network through which subscribers are able to communicate with server computer 160.
Claims (38)
1. A system for delivering and paying subscriber bills associated with a plurality of payees over a communications network comprising:
a server computer connected to the network;
at least one subscriber computer connected to the network; and a bill capture device coupled to the server computer, the bill capture device adapted to accept bill information from a plurality of payee computers each associated with one or more of the plurality of payees, to format the bill information into bill images and to forward the bill images to the server computer, the server computer including a memory for storing subscriber payment data and adapted to transmit the bill images over the network to the at least one subscriber computer, each subscriber computer including a processor, communication means for receiving the bill images, a server access program for viewing the bill images, a display for displaying the bill images and input means for selecting at least one bill payment option, wherein the processor, responsive to the input means, causes the communication means to transmit a bill payment record to the server computer which, in response, forwards the bill payment record to the bill capture device which routes the bill payment signal to a corresponding one or more of the payee computers.
a server computer connected to the network;
at least one subscriber computer connected to the network; and a bill capture device coupled to the server computer, the bill capture device adapted to accept bill information from a plurality of payee computers each associated with one or more of the plurality of payees, to format the bill information into bill images and to forward the bill images to the server computer, the server computer including a memory for storing subscriber payment data and adapted to transmit the bill images over the network to the at least one subscriber computer, each subscriber computer including a processor, communication means for receiving the bill images, a server access program for viewing the bill images, a display for displaying the bill images and input means for selecting at least one bill payment option, wherein the processor, responsive to the input means, causes the communication means to transmit a bill payment record to the server computer which, in response, forwards the bill payment record to the bill capture device which routes the bill payment signal to a corresponding one or more of the payee computers.
2. The system of claim 1 wherein the subscriber payment data comprises subscriber payment method data, payee data, payee payment date data and payee payment amount data.
3. The system of claim 1 wherein the bill payment record comprises payee payment date data, payee payment method preference data and payee payment amount data.
4. The system of claim 3 wherein the bill payment record further comprises grievance data.
5. The system of claim 1 wherein the network is an Internet network.
6. The system of claim 1 wherein the network is the World Wide Web and the server access program is a web browser for browsing the bill image.
7. The system of claim 1 wherein the bill capture device comprises a computer.
8. The system of claim 1 wherein the bill capture device comprises a computer program.
9. The system of claim 1 wherein the bill images include a homepage of the server computer.
10. The system of claim 9 wherein the homepage includes means for checking an amount of available funds for payments.
11. The system of claim 9 wherein the homepage includes means for reviewing payment records.
12. The system of claim 1 wherein the bill images are transmitted in the form of e-mail.
13. The system of claim 1 wherein the server is further adapted to transmit messages to the at least one subscriber computer confirming bill payments over the communications network.
14. A method of delivering and paying bills over a communications network to which are coupled a server computer and at least one subscriber computer, the server computer comprising a memory for storing subscriber payment data and the at least one subscriber computer comprising a communications means, a server access program, a display and an input means, the method comprising the steps of:
accepting at a bill capture device bill information from a plurality of payee computers;
formatting the bill information into bill images;
forwarding the bill images to the server computer;
transmitting the bill images over the communications network to at least one of the subscriber computer via the communication means;
displaying the bill images on the display with the server access program;
selecting with the input means a bill for payment and payment particulars;
transmitting to the server computer, responsive to the input means, a bill payment record with the communication means;
forwarding the bill payment record to the bill capture device; and routing the bill payment record to a corresponding payee computer.
accepting at a bill capture device bill information from a plurality of payee computers;
formatting the bill information into bill images;
forwarding the bill images to the server computer;
transmitting the bill images over the communications network to at least one of the subscriber computer via the communication means;
displaying the bill images on the display with the server access program;
selecting with the input means a bill for payment and payment particulars;
transmitting to the server computer, responsive to the input means, a bill payment record with the communication means;
forwarding the bill payment record to the bill capture device; and routing the bill payment record to a corresponding payee computer.
15. The method of claim 14 wherein the selecting step comprises the steps of selecting a payee, a payment date, a payment method and a payment amount and wherein the method further comprising the steps of:
retrieving from the memory of the server computer data representative of the subscriber account corresponding to the selected payment method; and storing data representative of the selected payee, the selected payment date, the selected payment method and the selected payment amount in the memory of the server computer.
retrieving from the memory of the server computer data representative of the subscriber account corresponding to the selected payment method; and storing data representative of the selected payee, the selected payment date, the selected payment method and the selected payment amount in the memory of the server computer.
16. The method of claim 15 further comprising the step of providing to a subscriber an option to review bill payment information located in the memory.
17. The method of claim 14 further comprising the step of transmitting a confirmation message from the server computer to the subscriber computer confirming that a bill has been paid.
18. The method of claim 17 wherein the confirmation transmitting step comprises the step of transmitting the confirmation message by e-mail.
19. The method of claim 14 wherein the routing step comprises the steps of:
routing the bill payment record over a settlement network to a payee computer; and settling the bill payment over the settlement network with an acquirer computer.
routing the bill payment record over a settlement network to a payee computer; and settling the bill payment over the settlement network with an acquirer computer.
20. The method of claim 19 wherein the settling step comprises the step of the payee computer billing a subscriber on a credit card statement for the bill payment amount.
21. A system for presenting subscriber bill information associated with plurality of payees over a network comprising:
at least one subscriber computer connected to the network;
a plurality of payee computers each associated with one or more of the plurality of payees;
a server computer connected to the network for providing the bill information received from the at least one payee computer to the at least one subscriber computer; and a bill capture device coupled to the server computer, the bill capture device adapted to accept the bill information from the at least one payee computer to format the bill information into bill images and to forward the bill images to the server computer;
wherein each subscriber computer includes a display for displaying the bill images.
at least one subscriber computer connected to the network;
a plurality of payee computers each associated with one or more of the plurality of payees;
a server computer connected to the network for providing the bill information received from the at least one payee computer to the at least one subscriber computer; and a bill capture device coupled to the server computer, the bill capture device adapted to accept the bill information from the at least one payee computer to format the bill information into bill images and to forward the bill images to the server computer;
wherein each subscriber computer includes a display for displaying the bill images.
22. The system of claim 21 wherein each bill image comprises a payee payment date option field, a payee payment method option field and a payee payment amount option field.
23. The system of claim 22 wherein each bill image further comprises a grievance option field.
24. The system of claim 21 wherein the network is an Internet network.
25. The system of claim 21 wherein the network is the World Wide Web and each subscriber computer includes a web browser for browsing the bill image.
26. The system of claim 21 wherein the bill capture device comprises a computer.
27. The system of claim 21 wherein the bill capture device comprises a computer program.
28. The system of claim 21 wherein the bill images reside on a homepage of the server computer.
29. The system of claim 28 wherein the homepage includes means for checking an amount of available funds for payments.
30. The system of claim 28 wherein the homepage includes means for reviewing payment records.
31. The system of claim 21 wherein the bill images are transmitted in the form of e-mail.
32. A method of presenting and paying bills over a communications network to which are coupled a server computer and at least one subscriber computer, the server computer comprising a memory for storing subscriber payment data and the at least one subscriber computer comprising a communications means, a server access program, a display, the method comprising the steps of:
accepting at a bill capture device bill information from a plurality of payee computers;
formatting the bill information into bill images;
transmitting the bill images over the communications network to at least one of the subscriber computer via the communication means;
displaying the bill images on the display with the server access program;
accepting bill payment information from one at least one of the subscriber computer; and routing the bill payment record to at least one corresponding payee computer.
accepting at a bill capture device bill information from a plurality of payee computers;
formatting the bill information into bill images;
transmitting the bill images over the communications network to at least one of the subscriber computer via the communication means;
displaying the bill images on the display with the server access program;
accepting bill payment information from one at least one of the subscriber computer; and routing the bill payment record to at least one corresponding payee computer.
33. The method of claim 32 wherein the accepting step comprises the steps of accepting a payee, a payment date, a payment method and a payment amount and wherein the method further comprising the steps of:
retrieving from the memory of the server computer data representative of the subscriber account corresponding to the selected payment method; and storing data representative of the selected payee, the selected payment date, the selected payment method and the selected payment amount in the memory of the server computer.
retrieving from the memory of the server computer data representative of the subscriber account corresponding to the selected payment method; and storing data representative of the selected payee, the selected payment date, the selected payment method and the selected payment amount in the memory of the server computer.
34. The method of claim 32 further comprising the step of providing to a subscriber an option to review bill payment information located in the memory.
35. The method of claim 32 further comprising the step of transmitting a confirmation message from the server computer to the subscriber computer confirming that a bill has been paid.
36. The method of claim 35 wherein the confirmation transmitting step comprises the step of transmitting the confirmation message by e-mail.
37. The method of claim 32 wherein the routing step comprises the steps of:
routing the bill payment record over a settlement network to a payee computer; and settling the bill payment over the settlement network with an acquirer computer.
routing the bill payment record over a settlement network to a payee computer; and settling the bill payment over the settlement network with an acquirer computer.
38. The method of claim 37 wherein the settling step comprises the step of the payee computer billing a subscriber on a credit card statement for the bill payment amount.
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