Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System and methods for providing starter credit card accounts
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Application No.: US09880777Application Date: 2001-06-15
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Publication No.: US08407136B2Publication Date: 2013-03-26
- Inventor: Keira Brooke Bard , Jeremy Paul Clifford , Scott Dalla Valle , Nathan Tad Czyzeswki , Baskaran Nadarajah , Peter Lackey , Wayne Thomas Sanchez , Brian George Pilko
- Applicant: Keira Brooke Bard , Jeremy Paul Clifford , Scott Dalla Valle , Nathan Tad Czyzeswki , Baskaran Nadarajah , Peter Lackey , Wayne Thomas Sanchez , Brian George Pilko
- Applicant Address: US VA McLean
- Assignee: Capital One Financial Corporation
- Current Assignee: Capital One Financial Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US VA McLean
- Agency: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP
- Main IPC: G06Q40/00
- IPC: G06Q40/00

Abstract:
A system and method for providing starter credit card products to selected customers of a credit card issuer is disclosed. Methods, systems and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention enable a credit card issuer to identify a group of customers that may not eligible to obtain standard credit card products offered by the credit card issuer. The credit card issuer may rank these customers and present offers for starter credit card accounts with adjusted account parameters tailored to these customers. The credit card issuer monitors the activities of each starter card account during a trial period to determine whether each respective account has met predetermined criteria. Based on the results of the monitor process, the credit card issuer may adjust the parameters associated with each starter credit card account. The adjustment may include increasing a credit limit of the starter credit card account if the predetermined criteria has been met, or conversely, restarting the trial period if an account has not met the predetermined criteria during the trial period. Once a starter card account that meets selected criteria during the trial period will graduate and receive new parameters and benefits defined by the credit card issuer.
Public/Granted literature
- US20030046222A1 System and methods for providing starter credit card accounts Public/Granted day:2003-03-06
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