Patents by Inventor David Lee Garrison

David Lee Garrison has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7996311
    Abstract: Systems and methods of remittance processing where a merchant database is provided that includes one or more alteration rules that are associated with a particular payee. A consumer account number associated with a payor is received and altered into a modified consumer account number, where the alteration is performed in accordance with one or more of the stored alteration rules. The modified consumer account number may then be transmitted to the particular payee to be utilized, for example, when processing a payment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Checkfree Corporation
    Inventors: David Lee Garrison, Patricia A. Kight, Brad Perkins, Cheryl Lynn Ward, Mary Elizabeth Lawson, Amy Lynn Kerin
  • Patent number: 7711690
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for electronically processing bill payment requests where respective sets of payment requests are received electronically from a plurality of independent sources, each set of payment requests corresponding to an associated set of payers requesting payments to a plurality of payees. The payment requests are processed at a single remittance processing system having a database including payee information for each of the plurality of payees to generate payment directions for paying the plurality of payees in accordance with the processed payment requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Checkfree Corporation
    Inventors: David Lee Garrison, Patricia A. Kight, Brad Perkins, Cheryl Lynn Ward, Mary Elizabeth Lawson, Amy Lynn Kerin
  • Publication number: 20100100466
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for electronically processing bill payment requests where respective sets of payment requests are received electronically from a plurality of independent sources, each set of payment requests corresponding to an associated set of payors requesting payments to a plurality of payees. The payment requests are processed at a single remittance processing system having a database including payee information for each of the plurality of payees to generate payment directions for paying the plurality of payees in accordance with the processed payment requests.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2009
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Applicant: CHECKFREE CORPORATION
    Inventors: David Lee Garrison, Patricia A. Kight, Brad Perkins, Cheryl Lynn Ward, Mary Elizabeth Lawson, Amy Lynn Kerin
  • Publication number: 20090138394
    Abstract: Systems and methods of remittance processing where a merchant database is provided that includes one or more alteration rules that are associated with a particular payee. A consumer account number associated with a payor is received and altered into a modified consumer account number, where the alteration is performed in accordance with one or more of the stored alteration rules. The modified consumer account number may then be transmitted to the particular payee to be utilized, for example, when processing a payment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2009
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Applicant: CheckFree Corporation
    Inventors: David Lee Garrison, Patricia A. Kight, Brad Perkins, Cheryl Lynn Ward, Mary Elizabeth Lawson, Amy Lynn Kerin
  • Patent number: 7490063
    Abstract: Systems and methods of remittance processing where a merchant database is provided that includes one or more alteration rules that are associated with a particular payee. A consumer account number associated with a payor is received and altered into a modified consumer account number, where the alteration is performed in accordance with one or more of the stored alteration rules. The modified consumer account number may then be transmitted to the particular payee to be utilized, for example, when processing a payment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: CheckFree Corporation
    Inventors: David Lee Garrison, Patricia A. Kight, Brad Perkins, Cheryl Lynn Ward, Mary Elizabeth Lawson, Amy Lynn Kerin
  • Patent number: 7296004
    Abstract: A computer implemented system and method for payment remittance receives a payor's payment information, processes this payment information, other than a received zip code, to identify an eleven digit zip code for a payee. The system and method then accesses a database of payee records to locate a payee record corresponding to the eleven digit zip code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2007
    Assignee: Checkfree Corporation
    Inventors: David Lee Garrison, Patricia A. Kight, Brad Perkins, Cheryl Lynn Ward, Mary Elizabeth Lawson, Amy Lynn Kerin
  • Publication number: 20040049457
    Abstract: In a computer implemented remittance payment process, a a payor request is received from a source to make a payment to a payee having many payment remittance centers. The request includes information identifying a payor account number with the payee. The account number is processed to select a single remittance center of the payor's many remittance centers to which payment is to be made. Payment is then directed to the single remittance center.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2003
    Publication date: March 11, 2004
    Inventors: David Lee Garrison, Patricia A. Kight, Brad Perkins, Cheryl Lynn Ward, Mary Elizabeth Lawson, Amy Lynn Kerin
  • Publication number: 20020111906
    Abstract: A computer implemented system and method for payment remittance receives a payor's payment information, processes this payment information, other than a received zip code, to identify an eleven digit zip code for a payee. The system and method then accesses a database of payee records to locate a payee record corresponding to the eleven digit zip code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2002
    Publication date: August 15, 2002
    Applicant: CheckFree Corporation
    Inventors: David Lee Garrison, Patricia A. Kight, Brad Perkins, Cheryl Lynn Ward, Mary Elizabeth Lawson, Amy Lynn Kerin
  • Patent number: 6327577
    Abstract: A remittance payment method and system which receives a payor's account number with a payee, transforming it into an altered account number according to alteration rules previously stored in a merchant's database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignee: CheckFree Services Corporation
    Inventors: David Lee Garrison, Patricia A. Kight, Brad Perkins, Cheryl Lynn Ward, Mary Elizabeth Lawson, Amy Lynn Kerin