A technique for centrally tracking transactions in an electronic billing system
CA 2301331 A1 · Owner: Checkfree Services Corporation · Inventors: Wolfe, Kathryn Randall; Dreyer, Hans Daniel; Harris, Mark Todd
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A method is provided for centrally tracking transactions in an electronic billing system. The system includes multiple different billing entities, multiple different financial institute entities and multiple different user entities. Each of the multiple different billing entities is associated with a respective portion of the multiple different user entities and each of the multiple different financial institute entities is associated with a respective portion of the multiple different user entities. A message is received from any of the multiple different financial institute entities indicating a request from any of the multiple different user entities associated with the applicable …
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