Assessment method and server for debt management competency

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10650339-B2
Application number	US-201715603545-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 24, 2017
Priority date	Jan 17, 2017
Publication date	May 12, 2020
Grant date	May 12, 2020

Abstract

Provided are a method and a server for assessing a debt management competency, which provide a determination reference for inducing and educating an individual to rationally make a decision on a debt redemption by progressing the rounds by the predetermined number of times, selecting a specific debt among the plurality of debts and setting the amount of money to be repaid for the debt in an income for each round, setting an assessment grade for a user according to a debt settlement amount calculated in a final round, and providing a user with feedback information according to an assessment grade.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of assessing a debt management competency implemented by a debt management competency assessing server including a communication modem, a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the server to operate the method the server used by a manager and a plurality of users, the method comprising:
displaying, by a computing device of the manager, display option information about a plurality of debts to be displayed for each round of a plurality of rounds, wherein
the display option information includes information of (i) a normal display mode which provides a principal and an interest rate of each of the plurality of debts in a present round among the rounds, (ii) a retrospective display mode which provides and accumulated interest amount for each of the plurality of debts from a first round among the rounds to a previous round among the rounds, (iii) a prospective display mode which provides an interest amount generated for each of the plurality of debts in a next round among the rounds, and (iv) a combined display mode which is a combination of the retrospective display mode and the prospective display mode;
setting, by the computing device of the manager, a display mode among the normal display mode, the retrospective display mode, the prospective display mode and the combined display mode;
receiving, by the communication mode, information about the rounds, information about the plurality of debts, information about the display mode set by the computing device of the manager, and information about an income from the computing device of the manager;
generating, by the processor, a debt management competency assessment scenario according to a limitation condition set through the computing device of the manager based on the information about the rounds, the information about the plurality of dents, the information about the display mode set by the computing device of the manager, and the information about the income;
based on the information about the rounds and the information about the plurality of debts for the debt management competency assessment scenario, calculating, by the processor, an assessment reference amount for a total amount of the plurality of debts from the first round among the rounds to a predetermined assessment round among the rounds;
transmitting, by the communication modem, the information about the rounds, the information about the plurality of debts, the information about the display mode set by the computing device of the manager, and the information about the income to a computing device of a user among the plurality of users participating in the debt management competency assessment scenario;
receiving, by the communication modem, (i) one or more debts selected from the plurality of debts, (ii) the amount of money, which is to be repaid for the one or more selected debts, in the income, and (iii) approval information, based on which the present round among the rounds progresses to the next round from the computing device of the user for each round of the rounds;
when the predetermined assessment round is terminated, calculating, by the processor, a debt settlement amount for the plurality of dents based on (i) the one or more debts selected from the plurality of dents and (ii) the amount of money to be repaid for the one or more selected debts received up to the assessment round; and
setting, by the processor, an assessment grade for the user based on a difference between the debt settlement amount and the assessment reference amount, and transmitting, by the communication modem, the assessment grade to the computing device of the user,
wherein the information about the plurality of dents includes the principal and the interest rate of each of the plurality of debts and the principal is different among two or more debts of the plurality of debts, and
wherein the assessment grade for the user is set based on factors including a debt settlement order, a difference in a size between the interest rates of the plurality of debts, and a difference in size between amounts of the plurality of debts, the factors being set with weighted values.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the information about the rounds includes the number of the rounds, and the rounds progress in one direction and are not circulated.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the information about the plurality of debts includes identification information.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the information about the income includes cash information provided for each round of the rounds.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the debt management competency assessment scenario additionally includes at least one of profile information, initial asset information, bonus information, and saving information of the user, elapsed time, or combination thereof,
the profile information of the user includes a nationality, gender, an age, a job, a major, or combination thereof, and
the interest rate of each of the plurality of debts, the income, or combinations thereof is set to be varied in at least one of the rounds.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the predetermined assessment round is the last round among the rounds.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the assessment reference amount is a minimized amount of the total amount of the plurality of debts, which is mathematically calculated by reflecting a corresponding interest rate to a principal of each of the plurality of debts according to the progress of the rounds.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
transmitting feedback information predefined according to the assessment grade to the computing device of the user,
wherein the feedback information is updated by linking survey information about mathematical knowledge, financial knowledge, and various behavioral and psychological information of an individual received from the computing device of the user and the debt settlement amount before or after the generating of the debt management competency assessment scenario.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the survey information includes information about actual assets, an actual debt, and an actual income of the user, and
the method further comprises calculating a weighted value about the actual debt and a redemption strategy based on the information about the actual assets, the actual debt, and the actual income of the user and updating the feedback information, and transmitting the updated feedback information to the computing device of the user.

10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
generating a debt competency assessment model by receiving (i) the one or more debts selected from the plurality of debts, (ii) the amount of money, which is to be repaid for the one or more selected debts, in the income, and (iii) the approval information, based on which the present round among the rounds progresses to the next round from computing devices of the plurality of users for each round of the rounds, and analyzing (i), (ii), and (iii) together with the profile information about the plurality of users by a statistical method; and
scoring the debt management competencies of the plurality of users by using the debt competency assessment model.

11. A server for assessing a debt management competency including a communication modem, a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the server to operate, the server comprising:
the communication modem configured to receive information about rounds, information about a plurality of debts, display option information about the plurality o

Assignees

• Univ Ajou Ind Academic Coop Found

Inventors

• Kim Do Yeong
• Park Jun Su
• Kim Gyoung Hwan
• Kim Keon Ho
• Kim Do Won

Classifications

• G09B5/02

  with visual presentation of the material to be studied, e.g. using film strip · CPC title

• G06Q10/067

  Enterprise or organisation modelling · CPC title

• G09B19/18

  Book-keeping or economics · CPC title

• G06Q10/06398 Primary

  Performance of employee with respect to a job function · CPC title

• G09B7/02

  of the type wherein the student is expected to construct an answer to the question which is presented or wherein the machine gives an answer to the question presented by a student · CPC title