Patent ID: 8200574

Claim:
A method for using a communication network to facilitate financing-related activities, wherein the method is executed by a programmed computer processor which communicates with a user via the communication network, 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, the report generation function comprising a prospect report generation function, the prospect report generation function providing the user with a list of customers whose financing is scheduled to terminate within a predetermined period of time, the received data including at least one of summary prospect data and detailed prospect data; receiving a financing function request from the user terminal across the communication network, the financing function request corresponding to a selected one of the financing functions provided to the user terminal; retrieving data corresponding to the received financing function request from a database by accessing the database; arranging the retrieved data into a predetermined format, using the programmed computer processor; and transmitting the formatted data across the communication network to the user terminal.