Patent ID: 7729283
Filing Date: 2010-06-01
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for performing network enabled bill payment comprising: (a) accessing on behalf of a client operating a client machine including a memory and processor, a plurality of billing servers by a data-consolidation service provided by a software instance executing on a server of the data consolidation service, the data-consolidation service logging in to the plurality of billing servers on behalf of the client with log-in credentials provided by the client; (b) gathering and storing by the data-consolidation service on behalf of the client bill payment data including bills to be paid by the client to individual ones of the billing servers; (c) providing by the data-consolidation service an interactive interface to the client, enabling the client to review stored bill-payment data and to select bills to be paid; (d) upon the client selecting, via the interactive interface, a bill to be paid to the specific billing service, transmitting by the consolidation service a deep-link plug-in (DLP) to the client machine, the client machine storing the DLP in memory and executing the DLP on the processor , the execution accomplishing a direct network connection to the specific billing server, logging in on behalf of the client using log-in credential provided to the data-consolidation service by the client and subsequently embedded in the DLP, enabling the client to pay the selected bill by direct interaction with the billing server without further involvement by the data-consolidation service.