Patent ID: 8489477
Filing Date: 2013-07-16
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method comprising a plurality of steps each being performed by hardware executing software, wherein the steps include: accumulating data via a computer from a plurality of transactions each of which is conducted on a corresponding issued prepaid account issued by an issuer that was activated by an account holder, wherein the issuer is within a payment processing system that includes a transaction handler processing the transaction for both a merchant and processing other said transactions for other said merchants, each said merchant submitting the corresponding said transaction to a corresponding acquirer for processing by the transaction handler who requests the issuer of the corresponding said prepaid account to obtain payment for the corresponding said transaction from the corresponding said prepaid account and for which the issuer forwards the payment from the prepaid account to the transaction handler who forwards the payment to the acquirer to pay the merchant for the corresponding said transaction; calculating via a computer, from the accumulated data for both one said issuer in a category of said issuers and for other said issuers also in the category, a Payments Transaction Power Score between the one said issuer in the category of said issuers and the other said issuers in the category; and rendering a report graphically via a computer depicting the Payments Transaction Power Score.