Patent ID: 6883708

Claim:
A method and system for geographically presenting and summarizing charge-card transactions and visually alerting a cardholder to sensitive transactions by transaction map(s) in charge-card billing statements, comprising: integration of a database technology, a geographic information system, and a rule system; summarizing all or a subset of all transactions by a map which displays geo-referenced points-of-charges; summarizing the transaction amounts by points-of-charges within the map; summarizing the number of transactions by points-of-charges within the map; summarizing categorized transactions by points-of-charges within the map; summarizing the transactions with significant amounts charged by points-of-charges within the map; summarizing local-area transactions within the map; summarizing none-local-area transactions within the map; summarizing weekday transactions by points-of-charges within the map; summarizing weekend transactions by points-of-charges within the map; summarizing weekly transactions by points-of-charges within the map; the map is not summarized by point-of-charges but summarized by geographic unit.