Patent ID: 7865411
Filing Date: 2011-01-04
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented accounts payable process comprising: receiving by a computer transaction data including invoice data describing a first invoice, purchase order data, and vendor data; augmenting the transaction data with client-specified information; correcting discrepancies between the client-specified information and the transaction data; matching, by the computer, a first vendor identified by the first invoice to at least one vendor described by the vendor data, wherein the matching comprises applying a set of multi-dimensional criteria to the first vendor, wherein the set of multi-dimensional criteria comprise a portion of the client specified information and define a vendor profile containing information regarding a plurality of vendors, and wherein the matching comprises: matching by the computer a first purchase order identified by the first invoice to at least one purchase order identified by the purchase order data, wherein the matching comprises: conditioned upon successfully matching the first vendor to at least one vendor described by the vendor data, and upon successfully matching the first purchase order identified by the first invoice to at least one purchase order identified by the purchase order data, transmitting payment of the invoice to the first vendor conditioned upon failing to successfully match at least one of the first vendor to at least one vendor described by the vendor data and the first purchase order identified by the first invoice to at least one purchase order identified by the purchase order data: