Branch Banking & Trust Company Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130339066 | System and Method for Online Automobile Insurance Quoting - The present disclosure describes novel systems and methods for a customer to receive information and/or purchase a product or service while interacting with multiple vendors through a single contact/agency. The customer is able to communicate with the agency through a variety of communication modes. The agency adapts the customer's input as necessary to meet the requirements of the vendors and the agency returns information to the customer so that the customer can conveniently interact with the multiple vendors. The systems and methods allow for the customer to stop and restart the process at various points using any of the communication modes. The agency has the ability to present the customer with prospecting, sales, service, upgrades, cross-sells, and other pre- and post-purchase services at the single point-of-contact agency. | 12-19-2013 |
20130117048 | System and Method for Online Automobile Insurance Quoting - The present disclosure describes novel systems and methods for a customer to receive information and/or purchase a product or service while interacting with multiple vendors through a single contact/agency. The customer is able to communicate with the agency through a variety of communication modes. The agency adapts the customer's input as necessary to meet the requirements of the vendors and the agency returns information to the customer so that the customer can conveniently interact with the multiple vendors. The systems and methods allow for the customer to stop and restart the process at various points using any of the communication modes. The agency has the ability to present the customer with prospecting, sales, service, upgrades, cross-sells, and other pre- and post-purchase services at the single point-of-contact agency. | 05-09-2013 |
20130060607 | System and Method for Strategizing Interactions With a Client Base - The present disclosure describes novel systems and methods that can be utilized to evaluate and/or direct an interaction with a consumer database and/or evaluate a consumer database, where the consumer database contains information about consumers and particular products and/or services held or used by the consumers. The interactions may be, for example, determining a strategy for sales, marketing, cross-selling, and/or retaining one or more of the consumers. The evaluations may include, for example, hierarchically ranking the consumers and/or determining a clustering of the consumers. | 03-07-2013 |
20120022917 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING A CLIENT BASE - The present disclosure describes novel systems and methods that can be utilized to evaluate and/or direct an interaction with a consumer database and/or evaluate a consumer database, where the consumer database contains information about consumers and particular products and/or services held or used by the consumers. The interactions may be, for example, determining a strategy for sales, marketing, cross-selling, and/or retaining one or more of the consumers. The evaluations may include, for example, hierarchically ranking the consumers and/or determining a clustering of the consumers. | 01-26-2012 |
20100057599 | METHOD FOR BUSINESS ON-LINE ACCOUNT OPENING WITH EARLY WARNING SYSTEM - A method for a business customer interfacing with a financial institution through a computer network is presented. The method includes an early warning evaluation of the customer and/or entities associated with the customer to identify fraudster/abusers and prevent them from opening online accounts at the financial institution. | 03-04-2010 |
20100042533 | SYSTEM AND METHD FOR BUSINESS ONLINE ACCOUNT OPENING - A system and method for a business customer interfacing with a financial institution through a computer network is presented. The method includes a determination of whether the customer is an on-line client of the financial institution, a verification of customer-provided information with a pre-existing client identification profile for the customer, a determination of whether the customer is a sole proprietorship, a determination of the customer's credit score using a set of predetermined criteria, and presenting a set of account options based at least in part on the verification of the customer-provided information and the customer's credit score. Additional customer-provided information may be received and verified and used to enroll the client in one or more programs offered by the financial institution at a predefined level based at least on one or more predetermined factors. | 02-18-2010 |