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OwnerAndrew R. Tosswillinventor
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A customizable electronic bill payment and presentment system whereby the base logic for software agents need not be changed in order to provide customization to different billers. Rather, customization features are stored in data repositories, preferably in XML format. The system including a tool to be utilized for automatically generating customized descriptors to store in repositories. A customizable template is provided so that one who is customizing the EBPP system need only enter desired parameters into predetermined fields, and the appropriate XML files to be stored in the data repositories will be generated and stored automatically. Accordingly, customization for a particular biller is achieved by changing data stored in a repository, rather than reprogramming core logic.
An electronic bill presentment computer system for providing bill information from a biller to a remote customer over a network, the electronic bill presentment computer system including a plurality of base software modules and a plurality of customized descriptor repositories describing customized processes to be performed by the base software modules in accordance with preferences of the biller, the electronic bill presentment computer system configured and programmed to include:
A method for generating customized action descriptor files for use in an electronic bill presentment computer system for providing bill information from a biller to a remote customer over a network, the electronic bill presentment computer system including a plurality of base software modules and a plurality of customized descriptor repositories including the action descriptor files describing customized processes to be performed by the base software modules in accordance with preferences of the biller, the method including:
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