Patent ID: 8311942
Filing Date: 2012-11-13
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for paying a bill, comprising: intercepting, by an email application, a bill notification email from a financial institution payment system to a user; scanning, by a computer processor, the bill notification email to gather, from the bill notification email, bill information comprising a billed amount and a biller identifier, wherein scanning the bill notification email comprises identifying the billed amount based on the billed amount being adjacent to a keyword in the bill notification email and identifying the biller identifier based on the biller identifier in the bill notification email matching a biller in a list of billers; generating, by the computer processor, a network protocol request referencing a bill payment service, wherein the network protocol request comprises the bill information; augmenting, by the computer processor, the bill notification email with a graphical user interface (GUI) button to create a modified bill notification email, wherein the GUI button comprises the network protocol request with the bill information; presenting the modified bill notification email to the user; receiving a selection of the GUI button; extracting, by the bill payment service, the bill information from the network protocol request based on the selection to obtain extracted bill information; and paying the bill using the extracted bill information by paying the billed amount to the biller identified by the biller identifier using a financial account of the user.