Transaction authorization and alert system

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G07F 7/12 (2006.01) G06Q 20/00 (2006.01) G07F 7/08 (2006.01)

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CA 2176163

An automated method for alerting a customer that a transaction is being initiated and for authorizing the transaction based on a confirmation/approval by the customer thereto. In accordance with one illustrative embodiment, a request to authorize the transaction is received, wherein the request includes a customer identifier; a determination is made whether to authorize the transaction based on the customer identifier; if the determination is to authorize the transaction, that fact is communicated to the customer; a confirmation that the transaction should, in fact, be authorized is received back from the customer; and the transaction is authorized in response to the customer's confirmation thereof. In accordance with another illustrative embodiment, a transaction initiated by an agent of the customer (i.e., the principal) is authorized by the principal when one or more threshold parameters that may be pre-defined by the principal are exceeded. A preferred method of alerting the customer and receiving a confirmation to authorize the transaction back from the customer is illustratively afforded by conventional two-way pagers.

L'invention est une méthode automatique servant à informer un client quand une transaction est amorcée et à autoriser cette transaction sur la base d'une confirmation ou d'une approbation connexe du client. Dans l'une des concrétisations illustrant l'invention, une demande d'autorisation de la transaction est reçue, cette demande contenant un identificateur du client; en se basant sur cet identificateur, la méthode de l'invention détermine si la transaction doit être autorisée; dans ce cas, l'autorisation est communiquée au client; une confirmation spécifiant que la transaction doit être autorisée est reçue du client; la transaction est autorisée en réponse à la confirmation de la part du client. Dans une autre concrétisation illustrant l'invention, une transaction amorcée par un représentant du client (celui-ci étant l'agent principal) est autorisée par l'agent principal quand un ou plusieurs seuils, qui peuvent être prédéfinis par l'agent principal, sont dépassés. Dans la concrétisation privilégiée de l'invention, la méthode utilisée pour informer le client et recevoir de lui la confirmation de l'autorisation de la transaction a recours à des appareils de radiomessagerie bidirectionnels courants.

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