Patent ID: 7574400

Claim:
A method for using a communication network to facilitate financing-related activities, the method comprising the acts of: providing a list of financing functions to a user terminal across the communication network, the list of financing functions corresponding to those functions available to a user of the user terminal, the financing functions including at least one of a status function, a report generation function and a least one financing program function; receiving a financing function request from the user terminal, the financing function request corresponding to a selected one of the financing functions provided to the user terminal; receiving data corresponding to the received financing function request from a database by accessing the database; arranging the received data into a predetermined format; transmitting the formatted data across the communication network to the user terminal; displaying summary contract data corresponding to at least one contract; receiving a request to display detailed contact data for a selected one of the at least one contract; and displaying detailed contract data, the detailed contract data corresponding to the requested one of the at least one contract; wherein the status function is a contract status function and the received data includes at least one of summary contract data and detailed contract data and wherein the summary contract data and the detailed contract data each include: contract receipt date; contract status; and contract booking data.