Patent ID: 8494963

Claim:
A method for transmitting data within and between at least one remote location, at least one intermediate location and at least one central location in a tiered manner wherein each of the at least one central location communicates with each of the at least one remote location, the method comprising: capturing an image of checks and extracting data therefrom; capturing electronic transactions and extracting data therefrom; verifying the data extracted from the image of checks and the data extracted from the electronic transactions; transmitting at least some of said data extracted from the image of checks and the data extracted from the electronic transactions within at least one of the at least one remote location; transmitting at least some of said data extracted from the image of checks and the data extracted from the electronic transactions from each of the at least one of the at least one remote location to a corresponding at least one of the at least one intermediate location; transmitting at least some of said data extracted from the image of checks and the data extracted from the electronic transactions data within at least one of the at least one intermediate location; transmitting at least some of said data extracted from the image of checks and the data extracted from the electronic transactions data from each of the at least one intermediate location to a corresponding at least one of the at least one central location; and transmitting at least some of said data extracted from the image of checks and the data extracted from the electronic transactions data within at least one of the at least one central location.