Patent ID: 7693794

Claim:
A system for automated payment and creating travel-expense statements, the system comprising: a computer system; an automated payment system for providing transaction data, the transaction data including travel-expense data for a plurality of business trips and travel-expense receipts for the plurality of business trips, the travel-expense receipts being associated with the travel-expense data, the automated payment system comprising first interface means for transmitting the transaction data to the computer system; and data exchange means for interconnecting the automated payment system with the computer system; wherein the computer system comprises: second interface means for receiving the transaction data of the automated payment system; storage means for storing the travel-expense data associated with the travel-expense receipts for the plurality of business trips; processing means configured to execute a program for automatically creating receipt dates of the travel-expense receipts that identify which of the travel-expense receipts for the plurality of business trips are associated with which of the plurality of business trips, receiving travel dates of a particular business trip from a user after the particular business trip, the particular business trip being one of the plurality of business trips, and automatically determining which of the travel-expense receipts for the plurality of business trips are associated with the particular business trip based on the receipt dates of the travel-expense receipts and the travel dates of the particular business trip; output means for presenting the travel-expense receipts automatically determined as being associated with the particular business trip to the user; input means for enabling the user to select one or more of the presented travel-expense receipts as not being associated with the particular business trip, and disassociating the selected travel-expense receipts from the particular business trip.