Patent ID: 7865435
Filing Date: 2011-01-04
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-based method with regard to a person storing funds in at least a checking account and a savings account of a banking institution, the funds in the savings account of the person earning a high amount of interest and the funds in the checking account of the person earning a low amount of interest, the method for implementing an excess funds plan for the person to ensure that a final amount of funds in the checking account of the person are moved to the savings account of the person to earn the high amount of interest thereof, and comprising of: receiving the excess funds plan at a plan defining module of a computer device; producing at the plan defining module a number of values relating to the plan, including a total amount (‘FIX’) of regularly recurring bills of the person for each of a plurality of temporal cycles, the regularly recurring bills have a generally fixed amount, and a floor value (‘FLO’) as a minimum amount of funds that are to be in the checking account of the person at an end of each cycle; and actuating a plan implementation module of a computer device at a beginning and end of each cycle, the plan implementation module implementing the excess funds plan by, for each cycle: receiving, at the beginning of the cycle, funds from an amount of income (‘INC’) of the person; depositing, at the beginning of the cycle, an amount at least equal to FIX into a bills account of the person; depositing, at the beginning of the cycle, at least a portion of a remainder of INC into the checking account of the person; allowing, during the cycle, the person to pay the regularly recurring bills from the bills account and other bills from the checking account thereof; detecting, at the end of the cycle, if there has been an increase in any of the regularly recurring bills, and if so, increasing the FIX; and transferring, at the end of the cycle, the final amount left in the checking account above FLO to the savings account to earn the high amount of interest thereof; wherein funds are not allowed to accumulate in the checking account to earn only the low amount of interest thereof.