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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2014
Mdsave Inc., Brentwood, TN (US);
Paul John Ketchel, III, Nashville, TN (US);
MDSAVE INC., Brentwood, TN (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for facilitating purchases of services includes an application server providing a network service and maintaining a service offer database that comprises a plurality of service offer information records respectively associated with a plurality of service offers. The plurality of service offers include at least one service offer for a bundled set of services. Each information record comprises an indication of a primary service, a purchase price, a payment amount for a primary service, and compensation information for receiving payment for the primary service. Upon being accessed by user operating a client system, the network service is operable to receive an indication of a service offer being selected for purchase by the user, receive purchase information from the user specifying a funding source, and issue a request to the funding source for funds corresponding to the purchase price included in the information record associated with the selected service offer.