Account Contribution Management
AssigneePassport Health Communications, Inc.
InventorPaul Joseph Hoffman
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Abstract
An ability to expose and display a current billing amount associated with a billing account in a billing system to one or more third parties, and to link one or more payments from the one or more third parties to the billing account in an account receivable system is provided. A user may create, publish, and share a fundraising webpage, which when accessed by a third party, allows the third party to send a payment in the form of a contribution or donation. An intermediary system allows for secure communication of billing account data from the accounts receivable system to the third party, allowing the third party to interact with the accounts receivable system as if the third party is in direct communication with the accounts receivable system.
Claims20
A method of exposing an accounts receivable account to a third party to allow the third party to interact with the accounts receivable account, comprising:
- receiving billing information from an accounts receivable system, wherein the billing information is associated with an owed account in the accounts receivable system;
- providing, via a webpage, an accounting of the owed account associated with a user owing funds to the accounts receivable system;
- providing, via the webpage, one or more fields for receiving funds in satisfaction of the owed account associated with the user owing funds to the accounts receivable system;
- exposing the webpage to one or more third parties;
- and
- receiving funds via the one or more fields from one of the one or more third parties via the webpage in satisfaction of the owed account.
A system for exposing an accounts receivable account to a third party to allow the third party to interact with the accounts receivable account, the system comprising:
- an accounts receivable system operable to:
- provide billing information associated with an owed account in the accounts receivable system;
- receive funds via a payment system in satisfaction of an owed account from one or more third parties;
- an intermediary system operable to:
- receive billing information from the accounts receivable system, wherein the billing information is associated an owed account in the accounts receivable system;
- generate a webpage, wherein the webpage is operable to:
- provide an accounting of an owed account associated with an owed account in the accounts receivable system;
- and
- provide one or more fields for receiving funds in satisfaction of the owed account in the accounts receivable system;
- expose the generated webpage to one or more third parties;
- and
- receive an indication of a receipt of funds in satisfaction of the owed account from one of the one or more third parties via the webpage;
- and
- a payment system operable to
- transfer funds from one or more third parties to the accounts receivable system in satisfaction of the owed account in the accounts receivable system in response to the indication of a receipt of funds in satisfaction of the owed account from one of the one or more third parties via the webpage.
A computer readable medium containing computer executable instructions which when executed by a computer perform a method of exposing an accounts receivable account to a third party to allow the third party to interact with the accounts receivable account, comprising:
- receiving billing information from an accounts receivable system, wherein the billing information is associated with an owed account in the accounts receivable system;
- generating a webpage, the webpage containing an accounting of the owed account associated with a user owing funds to the accounts receivable system;
- providing, via the webpage, one or more fields for receiving funds in satisfaction of the owed account associated with the user owing funds to the accounts receivable system;
- publishing the webpage to one or more third parties via a distributed networked computing system;
- and
- receiving funds via the one or more fields from one of the one or more third parties via the webpage in satisfaction of the owed account.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.