Patent application number | Description | Published |
20140143127 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING SELLER-INITIATED FINANCING IN PRIVATE SALES - Methods and systems are disclosed for providing seller-initiated financing in a sale of an item between private parties. A financial service system configures a financing program to give sellers the opportunity to offer prospective buyers financing directly. The financial service system enrolls a given seller in the program, providing resources and services to the seller to help market the sale and select a credit-worthy buyer. Once the transaction is completed, the financial service system transfers proceeds to the seller, then configures a loan account and payment plan for the buyer. Alternatively, the program can be implemented with an intermediate service provider, such as an online marketplace retailer. The service provider enrolls the seller and assists with marketing and buyer selection, and the financial service system transfers proceeds to the seller and service provider, and configures a loan account and payment plan for the buyer. | 05-22-2014 |
20140143128 | UNSECURED TO SECURED LOAN CONVERSION IN AUTOMOBILE FINANCE - Systems and methods are disclosed for configuring a loan account program to provide buyers of items, particularly automobiles, the full principal of the loan directly into a financial service account. A financial service system receives a request for a loan from a buyer. Following a risk assessment check, the financial service system configures an unsecured loan product for the buyer and transfers the entire financed principal into a financial service account associated with the buyer. Upon confirmation of the purchase and/or satisfaction of other criteria, the buyer's loan account may be converted to a secured loan account product with more favorable terms. | 05-22-2014 |
20140164058 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A MULTILATERAL TRANSACTION DATA MART - Systems and methods include multilateral transaction data mart, including one or more institutions, a central party, and a centralized database. Additionally, example embodiments may receive information from a one or more institutions, store the information in a centralized database, and provide information to one or more institutions upon request. Further, a system and method in accordance with example embodiments may include sending information to a centralized database, sending a request to the centralized database for information regarding one or more users, and receiving information regarding one or more users. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164145 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISER AUCTIONS BASED ON SEGMENTATION INFORMED BY PURCHASE DATA - A system and method in accordance with exemplary embodiments may include advertiser auctions based on segmentation informed by purchase data, including a financial institution, one or more advertisers, and a bidding server to facilitate advertiser bidding. Additionally, a system and method in accordance with exemplary embodiments may pool customer and/or transaction information in one or more databases. The system and method in accordance with exemplary embodiments may also utilize a bidding server to permit advertisers to bid on access to information or the ability to present an advertisement and/or offer to a customer. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164217 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A DIGITAL BLANK CHECK - Systems and methods are provided for providing a digital blank check. The systems and methods may include a financial service provider providing loan terms to a customer. The financial service provider may receive, from a customer device, a first loan request relating to an item. The financial service provider may also generate a first offer based on the first loan request and provide the first offer to the customer device. The financial service provider may also receive, from the customer device at a point-of-sale location, a second loan request relating to the item. In response, the financial service provider may generate a second offer based on the second loan request and provide the second offer to the customer device at the point-of-sale location. | 06-12-2014 |
20140172525 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ISSUING, EVALUATING, AND MONITORING CARD-LINKED OFFERS - Methods and systems are disclosed for issuing, evaluating, and monitoring offers and incentives linked to various consumer financial accounts. Financial service account providers, merchants, card-linked offer providers, and/or service providers may collect transaction information relating to the redemption of card-linked offers. From the data, informative metrics may be determined relating to the offer, its redemption rate, and the consumers who redeemed it. The metrics may be used to evaluate the relative success of the offer, and can trigger revenue sharing processes derived from the offer. In certain aspects, incentive offers may be modified based on the metrics. In further embodiments, the metrics may also be used to determine a metric score that provides further information about the card-linked offer campaign. | 06-19-2014 |
20140207572 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SMART STATEMENTS - Systems and methods for providing purchase driven financial statements include an account processor that receives account data associated with one or more financial accounts of the account holder and advertising data via a network; one or more databases that stores at least the received account data and the received advertising data; and a statement processor that creates a financial statement based at least in part on the account data and the advertising data, provides the financial statement to an account holder, and tracks the account holder's future account data based on the provided advertising data. | 07-24-2014 |
20140257922 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING SOCIAL DISCOVERY RELATIONSHIPS - The disclosed embodiments include methods and systems for providing social discovery service operations. In one embodiment, a system for providing a social discovery service is disclosed. The system may be configured to receive transaction data relating to one or more purchase transactions involving one or more merchants and one or more consumers. The system may also be configured to receive product data identifying one or more products included in the one or more purchase transactions. The system may also receive location data associated with the one or more purchase transactions. Based on the transaction data, location data, and the product data, the system may be configured to generate one or more social discovery graphs. Further, the system may be configured to perform one or more social discovery operations based on the one or more social discovery graphs. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258091 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AGGREGATING AND MANAGING FINANCIAL SERVICE ACCOUNTS - The disclosed embodiments include methods and systems for providing an aggregated financial service account based on multiple private label financial accounts. In one embodiment, a process is disclosed that may include receiving a first request from a user for a first private label financial account that is usable for purchases associated with a first merchant and approving the first request for the first private label financial account. The method may also include receiving a request from the user for a second private label financial account that is usable for purchases associated with a second merchant and approving the second request for the second private label financial account. In one aspect, the method may also include generating an aggregated financial account based on the first and second private label accounts such that the aggregated financial account may be used for purchases with the first merchant or with the second merchant. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258092 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING FINANCIAL ACCOUNTS AND BUSINESS EFFORTS BASED ON LENDER INFORMATION - The disclosed embodiments include methods and systems for assessing financial account requests. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed that includes receiving a request from a borrower for a first financial account offered by a financial service provider. The method may also include collecting first lender information associated with the borrower and a first lender, where the lender information includes information associated with at least one first lender financial account offered by the first lender. In certain aspects, the method may further include analyzing the request based on the lender information and determining whether to approve the request for the first financial account based on the analysis of the request. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258094 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMICALLY PROVIDING FINANCIAL LOAN PRODUCTS - The disclosed embodiments include methods and systems for collecting, managing, and processing business data for lending services. In one embodiment, a lending system is disclosed that may register a small business with a lending service provided by a lending system and receive first small business data from the small business. The lending system may store the first small business data and analyze the first small business data to determine whether the small business qualifies for a loan product provided by a financial service provider. In another embodiment, the lending system may determine, based on the analysis, that additional business data is needed to determine whether the small business qualifies for the loan product. The lending system may further receive second small business data from the small business and analyze the second small business data to determine whether the small business qualifies for the loan product provided. | 09-11-2014 |
20140279473 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUCTIONING A FIRST-IN-WALLET PAYMENT ACCOUNT STATUS - A system and method in accordance with exemplary embodiments may include systems and methods for providing first-in-wallet payment account auctioning. In an exemplary embodiment, a method for providing first-in-wallet payment account auctioning includes, receiving, via a network, consumer preference data, current consumer financial situation data associated with a plurality of payment accounts, and account terms associated with each of the plurality of payment accounts; scoring each of the plurality of payment accounts based on the consumer preference data, the current consumer financial situation data, and the account terms and determining an optimal payment account to be the first-in-wallet account out of the plurality of payment accounts based on the scoring. | 09-18-2014 |
20140358656 | SYSTEM AND METHOD PROVIDING FLOW-THROUGH PRIVATE LABEL CARD ACQUISITION - The disclosed embodiments include methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for providing offers for merchant accounts. The disclosed embodiments include, for example, a system for providing offers for accounts associated with a merchant. The system may be configured to receive a product identifier from a consumer, the product identifier identifying a product available from a merchant. The system may also determine whether the consumer has a current financial service account associated with the merchant. Further, the system may determine one or more incentives to offer the consumer, the one or more incentives being based at least in part on the product identifier. The system may also generate an invitation to apply for a new financial service account associated with the merchant when the consumer does not have a current financial service account associated with the merchant, communicate the invitation to apply to the consumer, and award the one or more incentives to the consumer based on a response to the invitation to apply. | 12-04-2014 |
20140358660 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OFFERING PRODUCTS USING LINKED TRANSACTIONS - The disclosed embodiments include methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for providing offers for linked transactions. Transaction data corresponding to a first product physically purchased using a financial service account and product identification data identifying the first purchased product are received. The transaction data and the product identification data are associated. A consumer that purchased the first product is determined based on at least the transaction data. Follow-on purchase to offer for sale to the consumer based on the product identification data is determined and a follow-up purchase offer to purchase the follow-on product is generated. The consumer is provided with the follow-on purchase offer to enable the consumer to purchase the follow-on product in an electronic commerce purchase transaction. | 12-04-2014 |
20150019326 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A MERCHANT PAYMENT CARD MARKETING LABORATORY - In one embodiment, a system is configured to receive a market analysis request regarding customers having a partnership card account associated with a financial service provider and a merchant. The system may determine one or more online behavior characteristics of the customers and access data associated with financial transactions of the customers from the financial service provider. The system may further determine analysis results responsive to the received market analysis request based on at least the determined one or more online behavior characteristics and the accessed financial transactions of the customers. The system may further generate a report indicating at least the determined analysis results. | 01-15-2015 |
20150019355 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING MANUFACTURER-BASED FINANCIAL SERVICE ACCOUNTS - The disclosed embodiments include a mobile client device for providing real-time manufacturer-based financing. In one embodiment, the mobile device is configured to receive a product code associated with a manufacturer product offered for sale at a merchant location. The mobile device may further provide the product code to a financial service provider system configured to create a manufacturer-based financial service account associated with the product manufacturer. Further, the mobile device may provide, to the financial service provider system, information associated with a received account application, where the financial service provider system may create the manufacturer-based financial service account based on the received information and the product code. The mobile device may also receive a purchase code for purchasing the product using the manufacturer-based financial service account, provide it at the merchant POS location, and receive a confirmation of product purchase. | 01-15-2015 |