Patents by Inventor Kenneth W. Bradley, III

Kenneth W. Bradley, III 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).

  • BILL AVAILABILITY NOTIFICATION AND BILLING INFORMATION REQUEST
    Publication number: 20150170231
    Abstract: Systems and methods for presenting billing information are provided. Billing information may be received by a bill presentment system, and the bill presentment system may transmit a notice indicating availability of bill presentment information associated with the billing information. The notice may be transmitted in accordance with an e-mail protocol, and the notice may include a hyperlink enabling access to the bill presentment information via a second protocol other than the email protocol. Subsequent to transmitting the notice, a request for the bill presentment information may be received responsive to a selection of the hyperlink. The bill presentment information may be generated based upon at least a portion of the billing information. Additionally, the generated bill presentment may be transmitted by the bill presentment system in response to receiving the request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: William Kitchen, Ginger B. Moses, Ralph Au, Clarence M. Bringardner, Kenneth W. Bradley, III
  • Check metaphor for electronic payment authorization
    Patent number: 7933826
    Abstract: To electronically authorize and initiate payment, payment information including a date which pre-dates a due date of a payment by an amount of time corresponding to a time period for making payment in a particular manner. The received payment information is displayed in the form of a check, with the date displayed as a date on the check. A user authorization to proceed with the payment is received. An instruction to initiate the payment in the particular manner on the check date is transmitted based on the received user authorization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: CheckFree Corporation
    Inventors: Bill Kitchen, Ginger B. Moses, Ralph Au, Clarence M. Bringardner, Kenneth W. Bradley, III
  • Electronic bill processing with multi-level bill information storage
    Patent number: 7636688
    Abstract: A method of electronically presenting billing information, includes receiving billing information associated with a plurality of different billers, different portions of which represent bills for different payors. Requests are received from respective payors for current billing information, responsive to which bill presentment information corresponding to the applicable portion of the billing information is transmitted to the requesting payor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2009
    Assignee: Checkfree Corporation
    Inventors: Bill Kitchen, Ginger B. Moses, Ralph Au, Clarence M. Bringardner, Kenneth W. Bradley, III
  • Bill availability notification and billing information request
    Patent number: 7120602
    Abstract: A method of electronically presenting billing information, includes receiving billing information associated with a plurality of different billers, different portions of which represent bills for different payors. Requests are received from respective payors for current billing information, responsive to which bill presentment information corresponding to the applicable portion of the billing information is transmitted to the requesting payor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
    Assignee: CheckFree Corporation
    Inventors: Bill Kitchen, Ginger B. Moses, Ralph Au, Clarence M. Bringardner, Kenneth W. Bradley, III
  • Electronic bill processing
    Patent number: 6289322
    Abstract: A method of electronically presenting billing information, includes receiving billing information associated with a plurality of different billers, different portions of which represent bills for different payors. Requests are received from respective payors for current billing information, responsive to which bill presentment information corresponding to the applicable portion of the billing information is transmitted to the requesting payor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2001
    Assignee: CheckFree Corporation
    Inventors: Bill Kitchen, Ginger B. Moses, Ralph Au, Clarence M. Bringardner, Kenneth W. Bradley, III