Patent ID: 8095439

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of visually presenting spending activity to a consumer, the method comprising: receiving, at a first computer, respective receipt data from respective transaction processing devices of respective merchants, the respective receipt data identifying purchases of respective goods or services by the consumer from respective merchants; generating a user interface with a receipt program executing on the first computer, the user interface comprising: a thumbnail arrangement of a plurality of discrete objects, the plurality of discrete objects representing respective receipts generated by respective transaction processing devices, each discrete object comprising object data related to at least one good or service purchased by the consumer from a merchant, a first field populated by the receipt program and comprising a total number of receipts represented by the plurality of discrete objects, a second field populated by the receipt program and comprising a sum of respective numbers of goods or services identified by respective receipt data, and a third field populated by the receipt program and comprising a sum of respective total amounts of respective purchases identified by respective receipt data, the discrete objects being separated from the first field, the second field and the third field; and transmitting data of the user interface from the first computer, through a network, to a second computer of the consumer, the user interface being displayed by the second computer to the consumer.