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US 8,266,515 B2Granted
Categorization of summarized information
AssigneeYodlee.com, Inc.
InventorRamakrishna Satyavolu
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Abstract
A system for categorizing transactions includes a collection function gathering information concerning transactions, including at least date, description and amount of the transactions, for a particular person or enterprise, and a processing function categorizing individual ones of the collected transactions according to at least part of the transaction description.
Claims12
An Internet connected server having software executing from memory providing a system for sorting and reporting financial transaction information, comprising:
- a collector function of the software, the collector function navigating to one or more network information sites and retrieving therefrom financial transaction information regarding expenditures associated with a specific person or enterprise, the transaction information including at least date, description and amount of the transactions;
- an input function of the software enabling a user to provide to the system a request for a summary of transactions over a specific range of dates;
- according to types and category of expenditures;
- a processing function parsing the collected transaction descriptions for determining an purpose expenditure category from a plurality of possible expenditures for each expenditure, using pre-stored description characteristics associated with each category, and summarizing those transactions that meet the category and fall into the date range;
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- a reporting function of the software reporting the summarized transactions,
- wherein expenditure categories are developed from information taken from communication between users and the system,
- wherein a probability algorithm is used in developing the expenditure categories, and
- wherein the expenditure categories are periodically amended according to further information that is collected and processed.
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A method for sorting and reporting financial transaction information, comprising:
- (a) navigating to one or more network information sites by a collector software function executing from memory of an Internet-connected server and retrieving therefrom financial transaction information regarding expenditures associated with a specific person or enterprise, the transaction information including at least date, description and amount of the transactions;
- (b) providing by a user to the system through an input function of the software a request for a summary of transactions over a specific range of dates, according to types and category of expenditures;
- (c) parsing the collected transaction descriptions by a processing function, determining an purpose expenditure category from a plurality of possible expenditures for each expenditure, using pre-stored description characteristics associated with each category, and summarizing those transactions that meet the purpose and fall into the date range;
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- (d) reporting the summarized transactions by a reporting function of the software,
- wherein expenditure categories are developed from information taken from communication between users and the system,
- wherein a probability algorithm is used in developing the expenditure categories, and
- wherein the expenditure categories are periodically amended according to further information that is collected and processed.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.