Patent ID: 8219469

Claim:
A method of supplying data representative of transactions between a client and at least one merchant, via a banking institution, said banking institution issuing a statement to said client which, for each transaction, includes a statement line containing at least one reference for said transaction and/or said merchant, and an amount corresponding thereto, said method comprising: a transaction phase comprising: storing data representative of said transaction, in a statement server; acquiring and storing in an illustrative data server at least one information representative of a photograph and/or illustration representative of said merchant, called illustrative information; and transmitting a transaction message from a transaction terminal of said merchant to the banking institution, said transaction message containing at least one reference to said illustrative information, called an illustrative reference, recorded by said banking institution; a supplying phase of said statement comprising: creating said statement, associating to at least one of said statement lines said data representative of said transaction on one hand, and on the other hand at least some of said illustrative information, and/or at least one information pointing via a hyperlink to at least some of said illustrative information, called access information; transmitting said statement; storing some of said illustrative information, corresponding to said illustrative reference, in the transaction terminal and transmitting said some of the illustrative information in a delayed message, by said transaction terminal, to said banking institution after the transmission of said transaction message, asynchronously with respect to said transaction message; and using the illustrative reference to recognize the illustrative information and associate the illustrative information with said transaction message, by said banking institution.