Patent ID: RE44059

Claim:
A method for reconciling a financial account of a user from a portable user electronic account register device, comprising: entering user financial transaction data on said portable electronic account register; uploading said transactions entered by said user as uploaded data to a personal computer; accessing on said personal computer, from said uploaded data, a user list of said transactions entered by said user on said portable user electronic account register device; downloading from a financial institution computer to said personal computer a financial institution list of transactions from a financial institution; comparing, on said personal computer, said user list and said financial institution list item by item; providing a reconciliation function for each item on both of said lists; downloading reconciliation information from said personal computer to on said user electronic account register device; comparing said transactions to match transactions on said financial institution list to transactions on said user list; identifying matched transactions; providing said matched transactions to a separate matched transaction field in a user display; identifying unmatched transactions; attempting to match said unmatched transactions, absent user input, according to predetermined criteria to provide proposed matches; presenting said proposed matches to said user in said matched transaction field of said user display; marking said proposed matches so that said user can see that they are not exact matches; presenting unmatched items to said user in a separate unmatched transaction field of said user display; accepting, on an item by item basis, a confirmation of said proposed matches by said user.