Patent ID: 8515873

Claim:
A method for processing WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) checks, comprising: a) receiving at a computer transaction data relating to a transaction undertaken using a WIC check; b) receiving at the computer an image of the WIC check, the WIC check having a vendor identifier location with no vendor identifier information at that location; c) determining by the computer a vendor identifier for the WIC check based upon the transaction data; d) determining by the computer a state within the United States for the transaction data and further determining the vendor identifier location on the WIC check for the determined state; e) generating by the computer a graphical image of the vendor identifier; f) creating a revised image of the WIC check by overlaying the graphical image of the vendor identifier over the image of the WIC check at the determined vendor identifier location; and g) submitting the revised image of the WIC check through image exchange.