Integrated electronic accounting and bill payment
CA 2304386 A1 · Owner: Van Ness, Alan C. · Inventors: Burfield, Christopher B.; Van Ness, Alan C.
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A technique is provided for paying bills electronically using data generated by any of multiple accounting software packages. The data generated by each accounting software package has a different structure. Respective rules associated with each accounting software package are stored. Structured data including data corresponding to a payee name; a payee address an invoice , number and an invoice amount generated by one of the accounting software packages is received. The data corresponding to the payee name the payee , address, the invoice number and the invoice amount is extracted from the received structured data by applying only the respective rules associated with the applicable …
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- Filed April 6, 2000. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended April 6, 2020.
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