Claims
- 1. A method for enrolling a consumer with one or more consumer providers, the method comprising:
providing an enrollment system, wherein the enrollment system includes an entry device, a display screen, and a memory, and wherein the memory contains information associated with a good or service available from a consumer provider; displaying via the display screen at least one enrollment option, wherein the enrollment option includes the information associated with the good or service; receiving via the entry device a request for enrollment from a requester; processing the request for enrollment, wherein the requester is enrolled in the good or service.
- 2. The method of claim 1, wherein the consumer provider is a first consumer provider, and the memory further contains information associated with a good or service available from a second consumer provider, and wherein the method further comprises:
displaying via the display screen another enrollment option, wherein the other enrollment option includes the information associated with the good or service available from the second consumer provider.
- 3. The method of claim 1, wherein the good or service available from the consumer provider is a first good or service, and the memory further contains information associated with a second good or service available from the consumer provider, and wherein the method further comprises:
displaying via the display screen another enrollment option, wherein the other enrollment option includes the information associated with the second good or service.
- 4. The method of claim 3, wherein the consumer provider is a first consumer provider, and the memory further contains information associated with a third good or service available from a second consumer provider, and wherein the method further comprises:
displaying via the display screen another enrollment option, wherein the other enrollment option includes the information associated with the third good or service available from the second consumer provider.
- 5. The method of claim 1, wherein the information associated with the good or service comprises information provided by a third party and related to the good or service offered by the consumer provider.
- 6. The method of claim 5, wherein the information provided by the third party is reliability information related to the good or service offered by the consumer provider.
- 7. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving via the entry device comprises receiving information about the requester.
- 8. The method of claim 7, wherein the information about the requester is received from a database maintained by a payment provider.
- 9. The method of claim 8, wherein the enrollment device is a point-of-sale device associated with a money transfer system maintained by the payment provider.
- 10. The method of claim 7, wherein the information about the requester comprises credit information about the requester.
- 11. The method of claim 7, wherein the information about the requester is compared against a database of known information to authenticate the requester.
- 12. The method of claim 1, wherein processing the request for enrollment comprises:
assigning an account number to the requester; and providing the account number to the requester.
- 13. The method of claim 1, wherein processing the request for enrollment comprises:
assigning an account number to the requester, wherein the account number is inchoate; and providing the account number to the requester, wherein the requester must contact the consumer provider to activate an account associated with the account number.
- 14. The method of claim 1, the method further comprising:
receiving payment for the good or service from the requester.
- 15. The method of claim 14, wherein at least a portion of the payment is electronically forwarded to the consumer provider.
- 16. A system for enrolling a consumer with one or more consumer providers, the system comprising:
an enrollment device, wherein the enrollment device includes an entry device, a display screen, a processor, and a memory, and wherein the memory contains information associated with a good or service available from a consumer provider; instructions maintained on the memory and executable by the processor to:
display via the display screen at least one enrollment option, wherein the enrollment option includes the information associated with the good or service; receive via the entry device a request for enrollment from a requester; and process the request for enrollment, wherein the requester is enrolled in the good or service.
- 17. The system of claim 16, wherein the enrollment device further comprises a communication device.
- 18. The system of claim 17, wherein the memory comprises a memory local to the enrollment device, and a database remote from the enrollment device, and wherein the enrollment device accesses the database over a communication network via the communication device.
- 19. The system of claim 18, wherein the information associated with the good or service available from the consumer provider is maintained on the database and the instructions are maintained on the memory local to the enrollment device.
- 20. The system of claim 18, wherein the enrollment device is a first enrollment device, the system further comprising:
a payment provider control, wherein the first enrollment device is communicably coupled to payment provider control via the communication network; and a second enrollment device communicably coupled to the payment provider control via the communication network.
- 21. A method for enrolling a consumer with one or more consumer providers, the method comprising:
providing an enrollment system, wherein the enrollment system includes an entry device, a display screen, and a memory, and wherein the memory contains information associated with a first and a second good or service available from a first consumer provider, and a third good or service available from a second consumer provider; displaying via the display screen one or more enrollment options, wherein the one or more enrollment options includes information selected from the group consisting of: the information associated with the first good or service, the information associated with the second good or service, and information associated with the third good or service; receiving via the entry device a request for enrollment from a requester; determining which of the first, second or third goods or services is associated with the request for enrollment; and enrolling the requester in the determined good or service.
- 22. The method of claim 21, wherein enrolling the requester comprises:
assigning an account number to the requester; and providing the account number to the requester.
- 23. The method of claim 21, wherein enrolling the requester comprises:
assigning a inchoate account number to the requester; and providing the account number to the requester, wherein the requester must contact the consumer provider to activate the account.
- 24. The method of claim 21, the method further comprising:
receiving payment for the good or service from the requester.
- 25. The method of claim 24, wherein at least a portion of the payment is electronically forwarded to the consumer provide
CROSS-REFERENCES TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This application is a continuation in part application and claims the benefit of U.S. application Ser. No. 10/007701, filed Dec. 7, 2001, the complete disclosure of which is herein incorporated by reference. The aforementioned application is a continuation in part of U.S. application Ser. No. 09/823,697, filed Mar. 31, 2001, and U.S. application Ser. No. 09/990,702, filed Nov. 9, 2001, the complete disclosure of which is also herein incorporated by reference.
Continuation in Parts (3)
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Dec 2001 |
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10112440 |
Mar 2002 |
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09823697 |
Mar 2001 |
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10007701 |
Dec 2001 |
US |
Parent |
09990702 |
Nov 2001 |
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10007701 |
Dec 2001 |
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