Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Finance
Reexamination Certificate
2007-05-01
2007-05-01
Garg, Yogesh C. (Department: 3625)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Finance
C705S039000, C705S041000, C705S042000, C705S043000, C705S044000, C705S045000
Reexamination Certificate
active
09542109
ABSTRACT:
A system and method for paying bills which uses bank routing numbers. A service provider receives a bank routing number from a consumer, the routing number belonging to the bank at which the consumer maintains a deposit account. The service provider verifies that this received routing number is correct. The verification includes comparing the received routing number to a database of routing numbers which the service provider has obtained from banks.
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Christenson Tamara K.
Cook Kenneth
Johnson Mark A.
Kight Peter J.
Lach Regina
Checkfree Corporation
Garg Yogesh C.
Sutherland & Asbill & Brennan LLP
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