Patents by Inventor William D. Zielke

William D. Zielke 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: 7526448
    Abstract: A technique for identifying electronic billers of a consumer whose bills are available by electronic presentment is provided. A request to identify electronic billers of the consumer is received. This request includes information that identifies the consumer, but excludes any information identifying any biller, electronic or not, of the consumer. From this information that does not identify any biller of the consumer, one more candidate electronic billers of the consumer are identified. Then, a positive determination is made that at least one of these candidate electronic billers is definitely an electronic biller of the consumer. Thus, electronic billers of the consumer are identified without the consumer identifying any biller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: CheckFree Corporation
    Inventors: William D. Zielke, John J Frech, Teri W. Bemis, Randal A. McCoy, Peter Moenickheim, John Alfred Brothers, II, Cheryl L. Ward, Richard A. Stratton, Casey W. Kozee, William R. McMichael, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7395243
    Abstract: A technique for identifying a consumer's electronic billers in which the consumer does not identify billers is provided. The consumer transmits, from a consumer station, a request for a service provider to identify his or her electronic billers. This request includes information identifying the consumer, but excludes any information identifying any biller. In response to the transmitted request, the consumer receives, at the consumer station, a listing of one or more electronic billers of the consumer. That is, these are electronic billers with which the consumer has a relationship. Also, the consumer has not previously requested to the service provider to electronically present bills of any of the electronic billers included in the listing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: CheckFree Corporation
    Inventors: William D. Zielke, John J. Frech, Teri W. Bemis, Donald K. Hobday, Jr., Mark T. Harris, Hans D. Dreyer, Randal A. McCoy
  • Publication number: 20040133514
    Abstract: A technique for electronically presenting a bill of a biller to a customer of the biller based upon stored service provider information associated with the service provider making payments on behalf of a plurality of customers of the service provider is provided. The service provider receives biller information identifying a plurality of customers of the biller. The service provider then accesses the stored service provider information based upon the received biller information. A determination, based upon the accessing of the service provider information, is made that at least a first one of the customers of the service provider is eligible to receive electronic presentment of bills of the biller. Thereinafter, a bill of the biller is electronically presented to at least the first customer without the first customer having requested to receive electronic bills.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2002
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Inventors: William D. Zielke, John J. Frech, Casey W. Kozee, William R. McMichael, Randal A. McCoy
  • Publication number: 20040088254
    Abstract: A technique for selectively notifying customers of a biller of the availability of electronic presentment of bills of the biller is provided. Customer identity information of a plurality of customers of a biller is received. Each of the customers is eligible for electronic presentment of bills of the biller. Consumer identity information of a plurality of consumers is received. Each of these consumers is known to be capable of receipt of electronically presented bills. This consumer identity information does not include information identifying biller. The customers that are also consumers are identified and a notice of availability of electronic presentment of bills of the biller is made to only those identified customers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2002
    Publication date: May 6, 2004
    Inventors: William D. Zielke, John J. Frech, Casey W. Kozee, William R. McMichael, Randal A. McCoy
  • Publication number: 20040088255
    Abstract: A technique for identifying electronic billers of a consumer whose bills are available by electronic presentment is provided. A request to identify electronic billers of the consumer is received. This request includes information that identifies the consumer, but excludes any information identifying any biller, electronic or not, of the consumer. From this information that does not identify any biller of the consumer, one more candidate electronic billers of the consumer are identified. Then, a positive determination is made that at least one of these candidate electronic billers is definitely an electronic biller of the consumer. Thus, electronic billers of the consumer are identified without the consumer identifying any biller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2002
    Publication date: May 6, 2004
    Inventors: William D. Zielke, John J. Frech, Teri W. Bemis, Randal McCoy, Peter Moenickheim, John Alfred Brothers, Cheryl L. Ward, Richard A. Stratton, Casey W. Kozee, William R. McMichael