Jaime L Colon

US Patent:

20130268340, Oct 10, 2013

Filed:

Apr 10, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/443100

Inventors:

Jaime Colon - New York NY, US
David Greenspan - Staten Island NY, US

Assignee:

AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC. - New York NY

International Classification:

G06Q 40/00
G06Q 30/02

US Classification:

705 1425, 705 35, 705 141

Abstract:

A method of geographically mapping financial transactions may include receiving transaction data associated with an account and a financial transaction, and mapping an indicator representing the financial transaction based on the transaction location. The mapping of the financial transactions provides the account holder with a visual summary of financial transactions and may be used to detect various patterns or potential fraud. The method may include organizing financial transactions according to a transaction status, and setting a characteristic of the indicator based on the transaction status. In addition, the method may include correlating merchant data with the geographic location of the transaction occurrence, where an invoice address of the merchant data is not the same as the transaction location, and where the transaction location is determined using an address or latitude-longitude coordinates. Further, the merchant data may be associated with a public name of a merchant.