US Patent:
20080228647, Sep 18, 2008
Inventors:
Ted Kachel - Purchase NY, US
John Orem - Oklahoma City OK, US
Ted Growe - Piedmont OK, US
Blaine Trimmell - Edmond OK, US
Deborah Miller - Moore OK, US
Brian Fredrickson - Oklahoma City OK, US
Assignee:
Axiom Automotive Technologies, Inc. - Pittsburgh PA
International Classification:
G06Q 40/00
Abstract:
A method and computer-readable medium for managing an account balance of a user via remote connection to an account database system of a service provider are provided. According to the method, payment information is received from the user via the remote connection for a selected invoice of an account of the user. The payment information is outputted to an external payment service for settlement of payment, and, if the settlement is successful, authorization and settlement data are received from the external payment service and written to a payment file of the user. A transaction record is then written to an account transactions file of the service provider, thereby triggering execution of an accounting program for posting the authorization and settlement data to the user's account and to financial records of the service provider. The updated invoice information may then be outputted to the user.