Patent ID: 7451117
Filing Date: 2008-11-11
Classification: G06Q,G07F

Abstract:
1. A system for digital payment of document processing services comprising: means for opening a wireless data communication link between a portable document data device and an associated financial institution; means for communicating identification data from the portable document data device to the associated financial institution; means for selecting a payment method from a plurality thereof; means for selecting a credit amount representative of a desired digital credit to be associated with the portable document data device for future document processing operations to be performed therewith; means for receiving encoded digital credit data, which digital credit data includes data representative of the selected credit amount, into a data storage associated with a device driver disposed on the portable document data device upon approval of the selected credit amount from the associated financial institution rendered in accordance with the selected credit amount and the identification data; means for receiving the digital credit data inclusive of certificate data representative of authenticity of the encoded digital credit data; means for placing the portable document data device in data communication with an associated document processing service, which document processing service includes at least one of copying, printing, facsimile transmission, scanning, storage, and distribution; means for opening at least one electronic document in an application running on the portable document data device; means for receiving data representative of at least one selected document processing service to be performed on a selected, electronic document; means for enabling the driver from within the application in accordance with a selected document processing service; means for selectively communicating the digital credit data from the portable document data device to the document processing service via the driver; means for selectively communicating the communicating the electronic document data from the portable document data device to the document processing service via the driver; means for receiving final cost data corresponding to a cost associated with completion of the at least one selected document processing service on the electronic document data as determined by an analysis of the communicated electronic document data after communication thereof; means for receiving authorization data for completion of the at least one selected document processing service in accordance with received final cost data and communicated digital credit data; means for processing the at least one selected document processing service on the electronic document data in accordance with received authorization data; means for generating debit data corresponding to a cost associated with processing of the electronic document data; means for communicating the debit data to the portable document data device; and means for decrementing the value of the encoded digital credit data in accordance with debit data.