Patent ID: 9135614
Filing Date: 2015-09-15
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for managing issuance of a financial account for use in making purchases related to an event, the method comprising: receiving, by one or more computers, information corresponding to a plurality of financial account issuers each operating at least one financial account issuer computer; storing, by the one or more computers, the received information corresponding to the plurality of financial account issuers; providing, by the one or more computers, a communication interface that communicates over a communication channel; receiving, from an event-planning software package executing on a client computer, a request to issue a financial account; determining, by the one or more computers, that the received request has a data structure including a financial account issuer identifier, an enterprise identifier and at least one user identifier, wherein the enterprise identifier is distinct from the financial account issuer identifier and wherein the at least one user identifier is distinct from the enterprise identifier; based at least in part on the determination that the received request contains the enterprise identifier, identifying an enterprise that will control event expenditures with the requested financial account; based at least in part on the determination that the received request contains the at least one user identifier, identifying at least one user of the financial account; selecting, by the one or more computers, information corresponding to a financial account issuer from among the stored information corresponding to the plurality of financial account issuers based at least in part on the issuer identifier of the received request to issue a financial account; and sending, by the one or more computers, a subsequent request corresponding to the received request to the at least one financial account issuer computer of the financial account issuer corresponding to the selected information.