Patent ID: 8156021

Claim:
A data processing system for transmitting of payment advice data, the data processing system comprising: at least one payer computer system having means for generating a payment order and payment advice data, means for generating a unique identifier for the payment order, means for transmitting the payment order and the unique identifier to a banking computer system, and means for transmitting the payment advice data and the unique identifier to a central computer system; the banking computer system having means for sending bank statement data indicative of an execution of the payment order to a payee computer system, the bank statement data comprising the unique identifier of the payment order; the central computer system having means for storing the payment advice data and the unique identifier; and the payee computer system having means for requesting the payment advice data from the central computer system by sending a request for the payment advice data to the central computer system in response to receipt of the bank statement data, wherein the request comprises the unique identifier, and wherein the central computer system uses the unique identifier as a key to retrieve the payment advice data corresponding to the unique identifier and transmits the payment advice data to the payee computer system.