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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2010
Lindsay Gordon Matthews, Sudbury, MA (US);
Christopher Lang Mocko, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Derrick Ruyoung Chao, San Francisco, CA (US);
Albert Joongkyu Ko, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mark Robert Shulman, Mountain View, CA (US);
Lindsay Gordon Matthews, Sudbury, MA (US);
Christopher Lang Mocko, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Derrick Ruyoung Chao, San Francisco, CA (US);
Albert Joongkyu Ko, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mark Robert Shulman, Mountain View, CA (US);
Intuit Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for managing the use of a gift card with a personal financial management application (PFMA), including storing a balance of the gift card in the PFMA, obtaining, using a central processor (CPU) of a computer and within the PFMA, a transaction of a user, identifying, using the CPU, the gift card as a payment source of the transaction, and adjusting, using the CPU and in response to identifying the gift card as the payment source, the balance in the PFMA based on the transaction.