Patent ID: 7990895
Filing Date: 2011-08-02
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A bill payment method, comprising steps of: (a) accessing, by a service enterprise, a plurality of billing servers, logging in with credentials supplied by a client, and downloading, to a data repository of the service enterprise, indicators of bills which the client is responsible to pay; (b) providing an interactive interface via the Internet to a computerized appliance operated by the client; (c) receiving via the interactive interface a selection by the client indicating one of the bills the client is responsible to pay; (d) transmitting to the client appliance a deep-link plug-in (DLP) for the billing server where the bill selected by the client is associated; (e) executing by the client appliance the DLP, connecting the client appliance directly to an interactive page on the billing server, the interactive page providing functionality for the client to pay the bill.