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US 2008/0189208 A1Published application
Optical character reading machine having bill payment capability
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorRobert Benjamin Wilkie
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AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorRobert Benjamin Wilkie
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An optical character reading machine includes at least one processor and a bill payment system. The bill payment system includes a bill scanning and bill information parsing module for: scanning a bill to obtain bill paying information; parsing the bill paying information; and verifying the bill paying information, and a bill payment module effecting a payment to a payee identified from the bill paying information. Verification is for completeness and accuracy. If the bill paying information is not complete or accurate, the user is prompted to make corrections. Either a pre-established payment method or an alternative payment method may be used to effect payment of the bill. The bill may include first and second data encoded marking codes encoding fixed and variable billing information for the bill scanning and parsing module to read and decode for effecting payment of the bill.
A machine comprising:
A method of scanning a bill and processing payment of the bill, the method comprising the steps of:
A computer-readable medium storing a set of programmable instructions configured for being executed by at least one processor for performing a method of scanning a bill and processing payment of the bill, the method comprising the steps of:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.