Method and system for facilitating invoice data, payment credit transfers, real-time package tracking, and account-to-account payment on delivery

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11687986-B2
Application number	US-202016874939-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 15, 2020
Priority date	May 15, 2019
Publication date	Jun 27, 2023
Grant date	Jun 27, 2023

Abstract

A method for real-time invoice updating and account-to-account payment includes: receiving invoice data based on presentation of an invoice by a distributor to a recipient at a delivery location, modification of the invoice by the recipient, and acceptance of the invoice by the recipient; generating a request for payment (RFP) message based on the invoice data; transmitting the RFP message to a financial institution associated with the recipient via a financial institution of the distributor; receiving, from the financial institution associated with the distributor, a payment confirmation for the invoice based on a real-time payment from the financial institution associated with the recipient; generating reconciliation data based on the payment confirmation and the invoice data; and transmitting the reconciliation data to a computing device of the distributor and a computing device of the recipient.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for real-time invoice updating and account-to-account payment, comprising:
downloading, by a delivery computing device within a payment on delivery (POD) system, a POD software application from a processing server;
installing, by the delivery computing device, the POD software application thereon;
presenting, on an interface of the delivery computing device, to a recipient at a delivery location, an invoice specific to the recipient for delivery of goods;
modifying, by the delivery computing device, using the POD software, the invoice of the recipient in response to the recipient interacting with the interface;
dynamically updating, by the delivery comping device, the invoice for presentation to the recipient and a basis of said modifying;
transmitting, by the delivery computing device, invoice data associated with the invoice modified by the recipient, to a processing server;
receiving, by a receiving device of the processing server, from the delivery computing device, the invoice data;
translating, by a processing device of the processing server, the received invoice data from an enterprise resource planning (ERP) format to an ISO 20222 format;
generating, by the processing device of the processing server, a request for payment (RFP) message based on the translated invoice data;
transmitting, by a transmitting device of the processing server, the RFP message to a financial institution associated with the recipient via a financial institution of a distributor;
receiving, by the receiving device of the processing server and from the financial institution associated with the distributor, a payment confirmation for the invoice based on a real-time payment from the financial institution associated with the recipient;
in response to receiving the payment confirmation, generating, by the processing device of the processing server, reconciliation data based on the payment confirmation and the invoice data; and
transmitting, by the transmitting device of the processing server, the reconciliation data to a computing device of the distributor and a computing device of the recipient.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the invoice data is further associated with a schedule of deliveries of a distributor, and wherein the recipient is one of a plurality of scheduled deliveries.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the modification to the invoice is based on increasing a number of goods for delivery to the recipient.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the invoice data comprises a picture or video of goods being delivered to the recipient.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the invoice data comprises a recipient authentication code for recipient payment authentication, wherein the RFP message comprises the recipient authentication code.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the modification of the invoice includes moving a first icon displayed on the interface of the delivery computing device to substantially align with a second icon displayed on the interface, wherein the first and second icons have the same shape; and wherein the first icon includes an indication of a total amount to pay for delivery of goods and an instruction to align the two icons to accept the total amount to pay as correct and initiating payment.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the RFP message comprises an account number of the recipient for the financial institution associated with the recipient from which to obtain the real-time payment, and wherein the RFP message comprises an account number of the distributor for the financial institution associated with the distributor to credit the real-time payment.

8. A system for real-time invoice updating and account-to-account payment, comprising:
a delivery computing device; and
a processing server,
wherein the delivery computing device is configured to
download a payment on delivery (POD) software application from the processing server and install the POD software application thereon,
present, on an interface of the delivery computing device, to a recipient at a delivery location, an invoice specific to the recipient for delivery of goods,
modify, using the POD software, the invoice of the recipient in response to the recipient interacting with the interface,
dynamically update the invoice for presentation to the recipient and a basis of said modifying;
transmitting invoice data associated with the invoice modified by the recipient to the processing server,

wherein the processing server includes a receiving device, a transmitting device, and a processing device,
wherein the receiving device of the processing server is configured to receive:
invoice data, from the delivery computing device, and
a payment confirmation for the invoice, from a financial institution associated with a distributor, based on a real-time payment from a financial institution associated with the recipient;

wherein the processing device of the processing server is configured to
translate the received invoice data received from an enterprise resource planning (ERP) format to an ISO 20222 format;
generate a request for payment (RFP) message based on the translated invoice data; and
generate, in response to receiving the payment confirmation, reconciliation data based on the payment confirmation and the invoice data;

wherein the transmitting device of the processing server is configured to transmit:
the RFP message to the financial institution associated with the recipient via the financial institution of the distributor; and
the reconciliation data to a computing device of the distributor and a computing device of the recipient.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the invoice data is further associated with a schedule of deliveries of the distributor, and wherein the recipient is one of a plurality of scheduled deliveries.

10. The system of claim 8 , wherein the modification to the invoice is based on increasing a number of goods for delivery to the recipient.

11. The system of claim 8 , wherein the invoice data comprises a picture or video of goods being delivered to the recipient.

12. The system of claim 8 , wherein the invoice data comprises a recipient authentication code for recipient payment authentication, wherein the RFP message comprises the recipient authentication code.

13. The system of claim 8 , wherein the modification of the invoice data includes moving a first icon displayed on the interface of the delivery computing device to substantially align with a second icon displayed in the interface, wherein the first and second icons have the same shape; and wherein the first icon includes an indication of a total amount to pay for delivery of goods and an instruction to align the two icons.

14. The system of claim 13 , wherein the RFP message comprises an account number of the recipient for the financial institution associated with the recipient from which to obtain the real-time payment, and wherein the RFP message comprises an account number of the distributor for the financial institution associated with the distributor to credit the real-time payment.

Assignees

• Mastercard International Inc

Inventors

• Sabat Viviane
• Gilman Andrea Christine
• Wang Jennifer
• Bhatt Abhinav
• Chhuan Chhomthyda
• Bae Daniel
• Araujo Alonso
• Mortimer James Nicholas
• Taylor Monica
• Ahimor Eitan
• Murray Christopher
• Savoye Mark N
• Pacifico Robert
• Kamal Ashfaq
• Sharma Karan

Classifications

• G06Q10/1093

  Calendar-based scheduling for persons or groups · CPC title

• G06Q30/0635 Primary

  replenishment orders; recurring orders · CPC title

• G06Q10/1095

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06Q30/04 Primary

  Billing or invoicing · CPC title

• G06Q20/108

  Remote banking, e.g. home banking · CPC title