Patent Application
20190318333
Currently processing of resource distribution is delayed. Time is required for resource verification, reconciliation, and distribution. Typically, an end of day batching and reconciliation processing is performed prior to resource allocation. As such a real-time network processing nucleus is desired.
The following presents a simplified summary of one or more embodiments of the invention in order to provide a basic understanding of such embodiments. This summary is not an extensive overview of all contemplated embodiments, and is intended to neither identify key or critical elements of all embodiments, nor delineate the scope of any or all embodiments. Its sole purpose is to present some concepts of one or more embodiments in a simplified form as a prelude to the more detailed description that is presented later.
Embodiments of the present invention address the above needs and/or achieve other advantages by providing apparatuses (e.g., a system, computer program product and/or other devices) and methods for building and positioning a settlement process for real-time interactions that handle invoices, resource distributions, and use of links (such as Uniform Resource Locator (URL)) for approvals.
Currently upon resource transfers the resources are not distributed in real-time. Typically, a credit or indication of the transfer is posted, but requires and end of day batch processing transfer from one entity to the other to settle the resource distribution. This typically takes a day or more to complete. The invention solves this computer batch processing problem by building and providing a settlement processing hub for real-time interaction and resource distribution approval and settlement process.
Embodiments of the invention relate to systems, methods, and computer program products for real-time resource distribution communication channeling, the invention comprises: deploying private communication linkage between users and institutions associated with a resource distribution; communicating and confirming authorization of processing of the resource distribution as a real-time resource distribution; posting, for institution visualization, processing and clearance of the real-time resource distribution; identifying institution legacy system processing for each channel available for resource distributions at an institution; identifying the institution legacy system for the resource distribution at the institution and trigger processing of the resource distribution at the institution legacy system; and monitoring location of resource distribution within the institution legacy system processing and provide the institutions associated with the resource distribution visibility into location of processing.
In some embodiments, the invention further comprises storing information about the resource distribution, the real-time resource distribution, and the channel for dimensional reporting.
In some embodiments, the invention further comprises performing real-time processing of the resource distribution using Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for instant institution access to inter-level settlement.
In some embodiments, identifying institution legacy system processing for each channel available for the resource distribution further comprises identification of capabilities for real-time processing or end-of-day batch processing.
In some embodiments, the invention further comprises communicating with a block chain distributed network for confirmation of authorization and authentication of real-time processing for the resource distribution.
In some embodiments, institution legacy systems comprise systems at the institutions for processing resource distributions received via a specific channel, wherein the processing is determined on an individual institution and regulatory requirement basis.
In some embodiments, providing the institutions associated with the resource distribution visibility into location of processing further comprises generating a secure interface for accessing a contextual visual representation of the location of processing the resource distribution.
The features, functions, and advantages that have been discussed may be achieved independently in various embodiments of the present invention or may be combined with yet other embodiments, further details of which can be seen with reference to the following description and drawings.
Having thus described embodiments of the invention in general terms, reference will now be made to the accompanying drawings, wherein:
Embodiments of the present invention will now be described more fully hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which some, but not all, embodiments of the invention are shown. Indeed, the invention may be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein; rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will satisfy applicable legal requirements. Like numbers refer to elements throughout. Where possible, any terms expressed in the singular form herein are meant to also include the plural form and vice versa, unless explicitly stated otherwise. Also, as used herein, the term “a” and/or “an” shall mean “one or more,” even though the phrase “one or more” is also used herein.
Furthermore, as used herein the term “user device” or “mobile device” may refer to mobile phones, personal computing devices, tablet computers, wearable devices, and/or any portable electronic device capable of receiving and/or storing data therein.
An “account” is the relationship that a user has with an entity, such as a financial institution. Examples of accounts include a deposit account, such as a transactional account (e.g., a banking account), a savings account, an investment account, a money market account, a time deposit, a demand deposit, a pre-paid account, a credit account, a non-monetary user profile that includes information associated with the user, or the like. The account is associated with and/or maintained by the entity. “Resources” include accounts of the user and/or other property owned by the user. The resources may be associated with accounts or may be property that is not associated with a specific account. Examples of resources associated with accounts may be accounts that have cash or cash equivalents, or accounts that are funded with or contain property, such as safety despots box account that jewelry, a trust account that is funded with property, or the like. Examples of resources that may not be associated with accounts may be antiques in a user's home, jewelry in a user's home, or the like. “Funds” or “Available Balance” are a balance in an account that can be invested or withdrawn. For example, the funds may refer to a bank ledger balance minus the amount of any monetary checks in the process of collection. Funds may also be referred to as an available balance, a collected balance, good funds, and usable funds.
A “resource distribution” refers to any communication between a user and the financial institution channel or resource transfer. For example, a resource distribution may refer to a purchase of goods or services, a return of goods or services, a payment transaction, a credit transaction, lines of credit, automated teller machine (ATM) transaction, or other interaction involving a user's account. In the context of a financial institution, a resource distribution may refer to one or more of: a sale of goods and/or services, initiating an ATM or online banking session, an account balance inquiry, a rewards transfer, an account money transfer or withdrawal, opening a bank application on a user's computer or mobile device, a user accessing their e-wallet, or any other interaction involving the user and/or the user's device that is detectable by the financial institution. A resource distribution may include one or more of the following: renting, selling, and/or leasing goods and/or services (e.g., groceries, stamps, tickets, DVDs, vending machine items, and the like); making payments to creditors (e.g., paying monthly bills; paying federal, state, and/or local taxes; and the like); sending remittances; loading money onto stored value cards (SVCs) and/or prepaid cards; donating to charities; and/or the like.
A resource distribution or resource interaction may also refer to a resource transfer between users and/or entities participating in and leveraging a settlement network operating in real or near real-time (e.g., twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week), wherein settlement of the interaction occurs at or very close in time to the time of the interaction. A real-time interaction may include a payment, wherein a real-time interaction system enables participants to initiate credit transfers, receive settlement for credit transfers, and make available to a receiving participant funds associated with the credit transfers in real-time, wherein the credit transfer may be final and irrevocable. Real-time interactions or payments provide marked improvements over conventional interaction clearing and payment settlement methods (e.g., automated clearing house (ACH), wire, or the like) which can require several hours, days, or longer to receive, process, authenticate a payment, and make funds available to the receiving participant which may, in total, require several back-and-forth communications between involved financial institutions. In some cases, conventional settlement methods may not be executed until the end of the business day (EOB), wherein payments are settled in batches between financial institutions.
Real-time interactions reduce settlement time by providing pre-authentication or authentication at the time of a requested interaction in order to enable instantaneous or near-instantaneous settlement between financial institutions at the time of the interaction, wherein resources or funds may be made immediately available to a receiving participant (i.e., payee) following completion of the interaction. Examples of real-time interactions include business to business interactions (e.g., supplier payments), business to consumer interactions (e.g., legal settlements, insurance claims, employee wages), consumer to business interactions (e.g., bill pay, hospital co-pay, payment at point-of-sale), and peer to peer (P2P) interactions (e.g., repayment or remittance between friends and family). In a specific example, a real-time interaction may be used for payment of a utility bill on the due date of the bill to ensure payment is received on-time and accruement of additional fees due to late payment is avoided. In another example, real-time interactions may be especially beneficial for small entities and users (e.g., small merchants/businesses) that may have a heavier reliance on short-term funds and may not prefer to wait days for transaction settlements.
Real-time interactions not only provide settlement immediacy, but also provide assurance, fraud reduction, and bank-grade security to payments due to the inherent nature of the payment and user authentication infrastructure. Further, real-time interactions may reduce payment processing costs due to the simplified nature of required communication when compared to conventional settlement methods. In some embodiments, real-time interaction systems further include information and conversation tools that financial institutions may utilize to enhance a settlement experience for participants.
“Block chain” as used herein refers to a decentralized electronic ledger of data records which are authenticated by a federated consensus protocol. Multiple computer systems within the block chain, referred to herein as “nodes” or “compute nodes,” each comprise a copy of the entire ledger of records. Nodes may write a data “block” to the block chain, the block comprising data regarding a transaction. In some embodiments, only miner nodes may write transactions to the block chain. In other embodiments, all nodes have the ability to write to the block chain. In some embodiments, the block may further comprise a time stamp and a pointer to the previous block in the chain. In some embodiments, the block may further comprise metadata indicating the node that was the originator of the transaction. In this way, the entire record of transactions is not dependent on a single database which may serve as a single point of failure; the block chain will persist so long as the nodes on the block chain persist. A “private block chain” is a block chain in which only authorized nodes may access the block chain. In some embodiments, nodes must be authorized to write to the block chain. In some embodiments, nodes must also be authorized to read from the block chain. Once a transactional record is written to the block chain, it will be considered pending and awaiting authentication by the miner nodes in the block chain.
A “block” as used herein may refer to one or more records of a file with each record comprising data for transmission to a server. In some embodiments, the term record may be used interchangeably with the term block to refer to one or more transactions or data within a file being transmitted.
A system leveraging a real-time interaction settlement network allows for an interaction, transaction, payment, or the like to be completed between participating parties (e.g., financial institutions and/or their customers) via an intermediary clearing house acting in the role of a neutral party. Participant accounts are held at the clearing house and administered by both the participant and the clearing house. In this way, the clearing house is able to transfer resources or funds between the participant accounts on behalf of the participants in order to settle interactions.
Currently upon resource transfers the resources are not distributed in real-time. Typically, a credit or indication of the transfer is posted, but requires and end of day batch processing transfer from one entity to the other to settle the resource distribution. This typically takes a day or more to complete. The invention solves this computer batch processing problem by building and providing a settlement processing hub for real-time interaction and resource distribution approval and settlement process.
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The network 201 may be a system specific distributive network receiving and distributing specific network feeds and identifying specific network associated triggers. The network 201 may also be a global area network (GAN), such as the Internet, a wide area network (WAN), a local area network (LAN), or any other type of network or combination of networks. The network 201 may provide for wireline, wireless, or a combination wireline and wireless communication between devices on the network 201.
In some embodiments, the user 202 is an individual that has a user device, such as a mobile phone, tablet, or the like.
The user device 204 comprises computer-readable instructions 220 and data storage 218 stored in the memory device 216, which in one embodiment includes the computer-readable instructions 220 of a user application 222.
In some embodiments, the user application 222 allows a user 202 to provide authentication for resource viewing via applications, receive contextual visual elements, and resource distribution, and resource reconciliation. In some embodiments, the user application 222 allows the user to sign onto or authenticate the double verification required for application access for withdrawing or transferring of resources.
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The processing device 248 is operatively coupled to the communication device 246 and the memory device 250. The processing device 248 uses the communication device 246 to communicate with the network 201 and other devices on the network 201, such as, but not limited to the financial institution server 206 and the user system 204. As such, the communication device 246 generally comprises a modem, server, or other device for communicating with other devices on the network 201.
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It is understood that the servers, systems, and devices described herein illustrate one embodiment of the invention. It is further understood that one or more of the servers, systems, and devices can be combined in other embodiments and still function in the same or similar way as the embodiments described herein.
In one embodiment, the first user 104 and the second user 108 are participants of a real-time interaction system, wherein the first user 104 (i.e., the payor) initiates a credit transfer to the second user 108 (i.e., the payee). In a specific example, the first user 104 is required to initiate the transfer from the first financial institution 102, wherein the first user 104 provides authentication information to authenticate the identity of the first user 104 and to validate that an account of the first user 104 held at the first financial institution 102 contains at least a sufficient amount of available funds to fulfill the transfer. While in one embodiment, the first user 104 is required to initiate the transfer from a physical, brick-and-mortar location of the first financial institution 102, in alternative embodiments described herein, the transfer may be initiated from other locations wherein a user is not required to be at a brick-and-mortar location (e.g., via an electronic application, a website, or the like).
The first user 104, as the sending participant (i.e., payor), is required to authenticate his or her identity by providing information or credentials to the associated financial institution. For example, authentication information may include account numbers, routing numbers, PIN numbers, username and password, date of birth, social security number, or the like, or other authentication information as described herein. In some embodiments, authentication may comprise multi-factor or multi-step authentication in accordance with information security standards and requirements.
Upon initiating an interaction, the first user 104 becomes obligated to pay the amount of the interaction, wherein the interaction cannot be canceled by the first user 104 following initiation and transmission of communication to a receiving participant. The second user 108, as the receiving participant (i.e., the payee), receives communication to accept payment following similar user authentication requirements. Communication between participants for the interaction is transmitted between the financial institutions via the clearing house 110 which directs the payment to the appropriate financial institution associated with the receiving participant. The transfer of funds occurs between the financial institution accounts 112 and 114 associated with the financial institutions 102 and 106 on behalf of their associated users, wherein the interaction may be settled immediately, concurrent with the interaction. As settlement occurs between the representative financial institutions, debiting and crediting of individual user accounts may be managed at each financial institution with their associated customers. As the interaction is settled immediately, funds may be made available for use in real or near real-time.
It should be understood that while the illustrated embodiment of
In some embodiments, a block chain system is utilized for user registration of accounts and authentication for utilization of the real-time interaction hub. As such, allowing for authentication of a user in a mobile or virtual resource distribution. The block chain may not comprise resource, but instead comprise account and authentication into the account for any real-time resource distribution. In this way, rather than utilizing a centralized database of data for instrument conversion, various embodiments of the invention may use a decentralized block chain configuration or architecture 400, as shown in
A block chain is a distributed database that maintains a list of data blocks, such as real-time resource availability associated with one or more accounts or the like, the security of which is enhanced by the distributed nature of the block chain. A block chain typically includes several nodes, which may be one or more systems, machines, computers, databases, data stores or the like operably connected with one another. In some cases, each of the nodes or multiple nodes are maintained by different entities. A block chain typically works without a central repository or single administrator. One well-known application of a block chain is the public ledger of transactions for cryptocurrencies. The data blocks recorded in the block chain are enforced cryptographically and stored on the nodes of the block chain.
A block chain provides numerous advantages over traditional databases. A large number of nodes of a block chain may reach a consensus regarding the validity of a transaction contained on the transaction ledger. As such, the status of the instrument and the resources associated therewith can be validated and cleared by one participant.
The block chain system typically has two primary types of records. The first type is the transaction type, which consists of the actual data stored in the block chain. The second type is the block type, which are records that confirm when and in what sequence certain transactions became recorded as part of the block chain. Transactions are created by participants using the block chain in its normal course of business, for example, when someone sends cryptocurrency to another person, and blocks are created by users known as “miners” who use specialized software/equipment to create blocks. In some embodiments, the block chain system is closed, as such the number of miners in the current system are known and the system comprises primary sponsors that generate and create the new blocks of the system. As such, any block may be worked on by a primary sponsor. Users of the block chain create transactions that are passed around to various nodes of the block chain. A “valid” transaction is one that can be validated based on a set of rules that are defined by the particular system implementing the block chain. For example, in the case of cryptocurrencies, a valid transaction is one that is digitally signed, spent from a valid digital wallet and, in some cases that meets other criteria.
A block chain system 400 is typically decentralized—meaning that a distributed ledger 402 (i.e., a decentralized ledger) is maintained on multiple nodes 408 of the block chain 400. One node in the block chain may have a complete or partial copy of the entire ledger or set of transactions and/or blocks on the block chain. The distributed ledger may comprise one or more account information, authentication information, and the like for the first and/or second user for verification and access to accounts for real-time resource distribution. Transactions are initiated at a node of a block chain and communicated to the various nodes of the block chain. Any of the nodes can validate a transaction, add the transaction to its copy of the block chain, and/or broadcast the transaction, its validation (in the form of a block) and/or other data to other nodes. This other data may include time-stamping, such as is used in cryptocurrency block chains. In some embodiments, the nodes 408 of the system might be financial institutions that function as gateways for other financial institutions. For example, a credit union might hold the account, but access the distributed system through a sponsor node.
Various other specific-purpose implementations of block chains have been developed. These include distributed domain name management, decentralized crowd-funding, synchronous/asynchronous communication, decentralized real-time ride sharing and even a general purpose deployment of decentralized applications. The system may comprise at least one or more nodes used to generate blocks and process hashing within file transmission for transmission validation or failure location identification during file transfers across servers.
Furthermore, in some embodiments, a plurality of computer systems are in operative networked communication with one another through a network. The network may be a system specific distributive network receiving and distributing specific network feeds and identifying specific network associated triggers. The network may also be a global area network (GAN), such as the Internet, a wide area network (WAN), a local area network (LAN), or any other type of network or combination of networks. The network may provide for wireline, wireless, or a combination wireline and wireless communication between devices on the network.
In some embodiments, the computer systems represent the nodes of the private block chain, such as the miner node or the like. In such an embodiment, each of the computer systems comprise the private block chain, providing for decentralized access to the block chain as well as the ability to use a consensus mechanism to verify the integrity of the data therein. In some embodiments, an upstream system and a downstream system are further operatively connected to the computer systems and each other through the network. The upstream system further comprises a private ledger and the private block chain. The downstream system further comprises the private block chain and an internal ledger, which in turn comprises a copy of the private ledger.
In some embodiments, a copy of private block chain may be stored on a durable storage medium within the computer systems or the upstream system or the downstream system. In some embodiments, the durable storage medium may be RAM. In some embodiments, the durable storage medium may be a hard drive or flash drive within the system.
The real-time interaction hub 208 identifies the resource distribution ties old and new technology together to allow for real-time settlement of the resource distribution. The real-time interaction hub 208 identifies a transaction and positions a settlement process for real-time interactions that handle invoices, resource distributions, and use of links, URL, or the like for approvals. The real-time interaction hub 208 immediately lodges the entry of the resource distribution at the federal level for resource reserves and various financial institutions in real-time such that each has access to the settlement of the resource distribution in real-time. In this way, the real-time interaction hub 208 creates a real-time settlement at an inter-financial institution level. Thus eliminating batch processing and reconciliation, but instead providing immediate settlement of the resource transaction. The real-time interaction hub 208 posts the resource distribution to the block chain network system 312. The block chain network system 312 stores information of the user accounts and the authentication credentials for the user account on the block chain systems.
In this way, each individual financial institution server 310, is not required to change or modify their settlement process, which typically includes a bundling and performing off hour settlement of the day's resource distributions. A financial institution server 310 may be associated with a first user 302 and a second user 308. Each user may be associated with the same financial institution server 310 or a different financial institution server. Each financial institution server 310 may be in communication with the real-time interaction hub 208. The real-time interaction hub 208 may identify the resource distribution and the channel associated with the resource distribution, such as credit, debt, account, check, line-of-credit, or the like. Each of these channels may be siloed with respect to settlement and may require hard or soft settlement periods that are different. The real-time interaction hub 208 may transfer resources within the real-time interaction hub 208 to illustrate real-time settlement, but still allow for processing through legacy settlement procedure for that channel.
The real-time interaction hub 208 may keep track of all real-time resource distributions and track the legacy investment systems associated with the financial institutions and know which resource distributions were cleared during the day and which were soft posted or memo posted that requires end of day hard posting. As such, the real-time interaction hub 208 doesn't need a 24-hour period for various resource distribution hard postings, but instead recognized the legacy systems with the financial institution and which may accept intra-day postings. The real-time interaction hub 208 may communicate with new and legacy software programs and communicates to all interested parties the real-time location and state of resource distribution and clearance stage of those resource distributions.
Internally, the real-time interaction hub 208 allows for system identification of locations of resource transfers within the settlement process irrespective of channel of resource distribution. In this way, the real-time interaction hub 208 may identify the location and have real-time visibility to all location of resource distribution settlement for regulation compliance and reconciliation. Furthermore, the location of the resource distribution settlement may be transmitted to an interface for entity visualization to inform customers of the location of the resource transaction. In this way, the real-time interaction hub 208 may in real-time present the location of the resource distribution to an interface for real-time display of transaction location for customer reconciliation and visualization.
Next, as illustrated in block 504, the process 500 continues by identifying a resource distribution being initiated. This may be an in person transaction or a digital transaction using one or more channels for resource distribution between users or entities. The real-time interaction hub identifies the resource distribution being initiated based on user, financial institution, or entity notification based on the real-time interaction hub being networked within the various systems associated with the resource distribution.
As illustrated in block 506, the process 500 continues by confirming the authentication and authorization of the users associated with the resource distribution. In this way, the real-time interaction hub may communicate with the block chain distributed network. The block chain network may contain authentication and authentication information about the users for the resource distribution. In this way, the block chain network may identify authentication in real-time for the resource distribution for real-time settlement via the real-time interaction hub.
Next, as illustrated in block 508, the process 500 is completed by transferring, in real-time, resources within the real-time interaction hub to illustrate real-time resource distribution settlement. In this way, the real-time interaction hub identifies the type of settlement possible via the legacy system associated with the channel of the resource distribution. The real-time interaction hub may utilize that data to extract resources and apply resources appropriately for real-time appearance of completion of the resource distribution. Furthermore, the real-time interaction hub may monitor the processing and settlement via the legacy systems to identify completion of the resource distribution via the legacy system.
Next, as illustrated in block 604, the process 600 continues by identifying the channels and financial institutions involved in the resource distribution. The channels may include any resource distribution, such as via contract, a line of credit, transaction for a product or service using credit account, debit account, or the like. The financial institutions involved may include a federal institution and one or more financial institutions associated with the users involved in the resource distribution.
Upon identification of the resource distribution, the users associated with the resource distribution, the entities associated with the resource distribution, and the channel of the distribution, the system may extract and post the resources within the real-time interaction hub to illustrate the resource distribution. In this way, irrespective of the channel of the resource distribution or the legacy processing of the channel of the resource distribution, the real-time interaction hub may communicate a transfer of resources for the resource distribution to the interested financial institutions. Next, as illustrated in block 608, the process 600 continues by identifying the legacy processing program for the resource distribution channel within each financial institution and the processing requirements associated with that legacy processing program. In this way, each processing program is performed differently based on regulatory factors and individual entity requirements. As such, the real-time interaction hub doesn't inhibit the processing via the channel processing programs, the real-time interaction hub expedites the settlement for the parties involved in the resource distribution and provides visualization into the set the resource distribution is at within the financial institution processing.
As the legacy processing continues to process the resource distribution within the financial institutions associated with the resource distribution, the real-time interaction hub, via communication linkage, monitors the location of the transaction within the settlement process. As illustrated in block 610, the process 600 continues by the real-time interaction hub monitoring and communication the location of the resource distribution within the legacy channel processing. In this way, the real-time interaction hub may provide, via an interface and/or notification to the one or more users or entities associated with the resource distribution.
The information from the real-time interaction hub may be further analyzed to perform data analytics for generation of dimensional reporting of specific channel usages for categorization. In this way, as illustrated in block 612, the process 600 includes storing, within the real-time interaction hub, information regarding the resource distribution and channel processing for subsequent data processing and categorization.
As will be appreciated by one of ordinary skill in the art, the present invention may be embodied as an apparatus (including, for example, a system, a machine, a device, a computer program product, and/or the like), as a method (including, for example, a business process, a computer-implemented process, and/or the like), or as any combination of the foregoing. Accordingly, embodiments of the present invention may take the form of an entirely software embodiment (including firmware, resident software, micro-code, and the like), an entirely hardware embodiment, or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects that may generally be referred to herein as a “system.” Furthermore, embodiments of the present invention may take the form of a computer program product that includes a computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable program code portions stored therein. As used herein, a processor may be “configured to” perform a certain function in a variety of ways, including, for example, by having one or more special-purpose circuits perform the functions by executing one or more computer-executable program code portions embodied in a computer-readable medium, and/or having one or more application-specific circuits perform the function. As such, once the software and/or hardware of the claimed invention is implemented the computer device and application-specific circuits associated therewith are deemed specialized computer devices capable of improving technology associated with the in authorization and instant integration of a new credit card to digital wallets.
It will be understood that any suitable computer-readable medium may be utilized. The computer-readable medium may include, but is not limited to, a non-transitory computer-readable medium, such as a tangible electronic, magnetic, optical, infrared, electromagnetic, and/or semiconductor system, apparatus, and/or device. For example, in some embodiments, the non-transitory computer-readable medium includes a tangible medium such as a portable computer diskette, a hard disk, a random access memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM or Flash memory), a compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM), and/or some other tangible optical and/or magnetic storage device. In other embodiments of the present invention, however, the computer-readable medium may be transitory, such as a propagation signal including computer-executable program code portions embodied therein.
It will also be understood that one or more computer-executable program code portions for carrying out the specialized operations of the present invention may be required on the specialized computer include object-oriented, scripted, and/or unscripted programming languages, such as, for example, Java, Perl, Smalltalk, C++, SAS, SQL, Python, Objective C, and/or the like. In some embodiments, the one or more computer-executable program code portions for carrying out operations of embodiments of the present invention are written in conventional procedural programming languages, such as the “C” programming languages and/or similar programming languages. The computer program code may alternatively or additionally be written in one or more multi-paradigm programming languages, such as, for example, F#.
It will further be understood that some embodiments of the present invention are described herein with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of systems, methods, and/or computer program products. It will be understood that each block included in the flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams, and combinations of blocks included in the flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams, may be implemented by one or more computer-executable program code portions. These one or more computer-executable program code portions may be provided to a processor of a special purpose computer for the authorization and instant integration of credit cards to a digital wallet, and/or some other programmable data processing apparatus in order to produce a particular machine, such that the one or more computer-executable program code portions, which execute via the processor of the computer and/or other programmable data processing apparatus, create mechanisms for implementing the steps and/or functions represented by the flowchart(s) and/or block diagram block(s).
It will also be understood that the one or more computer-executable program code portions may be stored in a transitory or non-transitory computer-readable medium (e.g., a memory, and the like) that can direct a computer and/or other programmable data processing apparatus to function in a particular manner, such that the computer-executable program code portions stored in the computer-readable medium produce an article of manufacture, including instruction mechanisms which implement the steps and/or functions specified in the flowchart(s) and/or block diagram block(s).
The one or more computer-executable program code portions may also be loaded onto a computer and/or other programmable data processing apparatus to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer and/or other programmable apparatus. In some embodiments, this produces a computer-implemented process such that the one or more computer-executable program code portions which execute on the computer and/or other programmable apparatus provide operational steps to implement the steps specified in the flowchart(s) and/or the functions specified in the block diagram block(s). Alternatively, computer-implemented steps may be combined with operator and/or human-implemented steps in order to carry out an embodiment of the present invention.
While certain exemplary embodiments have been described and shown in the accompanying drawings, it is to be understood that such embodiments are merely illustrative of, and not restrictive on, the broad invention, and that this invention not be limited to the specific constructions and arrangements shown and described, since various other changes, combinations, omissions, modifications and substitutions, in addition to those set forth in the above paragraphs, are possible. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that various adaptations and modifications of the just described embodiments can be configured without departing from the scope and spirit of the invention. Therefore, it is to be understood that, within the scope of the appended claims, the invention may be practiced other than as specifically described herein.
To supplement the present disclosure, this application further incorporates entirely by reference the following commonly assigned patent applications:
