Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Finance
Patent
1996-09-27
1999-08-03
Voeltz, Emanuel Todd
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Finance
705 34, 705 35, 705 38, 705 40, 902 40, 902 20, G06F 1760
Patent
active
059338172
ABSTRACT:
A method and a system for operating a revolving credit program utilizing a table of tiered interest rates in which one of the interest rates is applied as a finance charge to a remaining outstanding balance of an account depending upon the percentage that payments made during a billing cycle comprise of an account parameter, such as the outstanding balance, a highest balance or a beginning balance. In the preferred embodiment the applied interest rate is determined by the percentage the outstanding balance is reduced by payments on the balance during a billing cycle. Also in a preferred embodiment of the invention, the tiered interest rate table is structured to apply progressively reduced interest rates to outstanding balances reduced by progressively greater payment percentages from the previous billing cycle, thereby encouraging a credit customer to make larger payments and pay down the outstanding balance faster. Also in the preferred embodiment, the system calculates and displays the minimum payments necessary to reduce the outstanding balance to meet each tier of the interest rate table.
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Alvarez Raquel
Todd Voeltz Emanuel
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