TW202137093A - Electronic billing system capable of integrating application of multiple electronic bills - Google Patents

Abstract

An electronic billing system has an electronic billing integration platform correspondingly linked to the electronic billing application software. The electronic billing integration platform has an electronic billing management system, an email server, an email analysis module and a database. The electronic billing application software connects to the electronic billing management system and reads the corresponding billing information in the database, so that the billing information is displayed in the electronic billing application software, thereby providing users with a more convenient way to pay electronic bills and capable of integrating application of multiple bills.

Description

Electronic Billing System (1)

The present invention is an electronic billing system, especially an electronic billing application software that can integrate multiple billing information sent via e-mail to a smart device, thereby providing convenience for users to pay bills and integrating multiple bills. Electronic billing system for billing information.

At present, the common form of electronic bills is to send mobile phone text messages or send e-mails (Email), in order to achieve the purpose of saving paper and environmental protection.

Referring to Figure 5, for sending e-mails, a billing agency information system 60 will package the billing information content to be sent to the recipient of the electronic bill in an e-mail format. This e-mail usually contains The following parts: sender, recipient, text, and attachments.

The e-mail of the above electronic bill will be sent to a second e-mail server 70 of the recipient through a first e-mail server 61 to which the sender belongs, using a standard e-mail transmission format. Then use a standard and agreed-upon e-mail client software 80 to view the e-mail of this electronic bill. Generally speaking, the e-mail client software 80 opens the second e-mail server 70 in the form of a web page. .

Since the second email server 70 and the email client software 80 were not originally developed and designed for the application of electronic bills, the billing agency information system 60 transmits the electronic bills by email. The information is only for the purpose of "communication", and does not fully consider the convenience of reading and the convenience of bill payment.

For example: when the bill recipient wants to use the barcode specifications in the electronic bill to pay at the convenience store, he must print out the bill, or open the email application APP in the mobile phone to find and open the electronic bill Then open the attachment file containing the electronic bill and enter the password. After opening the attachment file, find the barcode specification data and zoom in or zoom out on the phone screen, and move it to an appropriate location for convenience store personnel to scan the barcode Specification data to complete the payment of the electronic bill. If users have to pay multiple electronic bills at the same time, they need to repeat the above steps many times. In addition to the many e-mails that are difficult to find, they often forget whether to pay or not.

Therefore, the inventor has developed a simple and practical alternative device after long-term thinking, prototype testing and continuous improvement based on relevant practical experience.

The present invention discloses an electronic billing system. An electronic billing integration platform has an electronic billing management system, an email server, an email parsing module, and a database. The electronic billing management system provides user registration. And correspondingly, a dedicated email address is given to receive at least one email sent from a second email server by a billing agency information system, the email has at least one billing information, and the email server receives the The e-mail sent by the billing agency information system is then analyzed by the e-mail parsing module to obtain the content of the bill information and store the bill information in the database; and an electronic bill The application software is installed on a smart device. The electronic bill application software connects to the electronic bill management system and reads the corresponding bill information in the database. The bill information will be displayed on the electronic bill Application software.

With the above structure, the billing agency information system can send the email To the email server, the content of the bill information, such as the bill number, write-off number, payment period and payment amount, etc., can be received without infringing the recipient’s privacy. The user does not need to read the bill. E-mail, the e-mail will be organized through the electronic billing integration platform, the user only needs to open the electronic billing application software through the smart device to get the billing information, and the user only needs to open it when paying The electronic bill application software, and click on the bill information to be paid to perform the payment, which reduces the time to find the bill information to be paid and greatly improves the convenience.

〔this invention〕

10: Electronic billing integration platform

11: Electronic bill management system

12: Email server

13: Email storage space

14: Email parsing module

15: Database

20: Billing information

21: Barcode specification data

211: Barcode

30: Electronic billing application software

40: Billing Agency Information System

41: The second email server

42: Email

43: attachment file

44: Mail header

50: Smart device

[Traditional]

60: Billing Agency Information System

61: The first email server

70: The second email server

80: Email client software

[Figure 1] is a schematic diagram of the electronic billing system of the present invention

[Figure 2] is a block diagram of the structure of the first embodiment of the present invention

[Figure 3] is a block diagram of the second embodiment of the present invention

[Figure 4] is a block diagram of the structure of the third embodiment of the present invention

[Figure 5] is a block diagram of the conventional structure

Referring to Figures 1 and 2, an electronic billing system is disclosed. An electronic billing integration platform 10 has an electronic billing management system 11, an email server 12, an email parsing module 14 and a database 15 , The electronic bill management system 11 provides user registration and correspondingly given a dedicated email address to receive at least one email 42 sent by a billing agency information system 40 from a second email server 41. The email 42 has at least one attachment file 43 corresponding to a single user’s billing information 20. The billing information 20 is an amount, a write-off number, a payment period, a bill number, or any combination of the above, the billing information 20 can be matched with one code specification The material 21 generates at least one code 211. The email server 12 has an email storage space 13 for storing the email 42 sent by the billing agency information system 40. When the email 42 is stored in the electronic After the mail storage space 13, the email analysis module 14 analyzes the email 42. The analysis content of the email analysis module 14 includes the sender of the email 42, the recipient of the email 42, the content and The attachment file 43 obtains the content of the bill information 20 by analyzing the attachment file 43, and stores the bill information 20 in the database 15; and an electronic bill application terminal software 30 is installed in a smart device 50. The electronic bill application software 30 connects to the electronic bill management system 11 and reads the corresponding bill information 20 in the database 15, and the bill information 20 will be displayed in the electronic bill application software 30 .

With the above structure, when the user wants to obtain the bill information 20, he can obtain the bill information 20 by operating the electronic billing application software 30 on the smart device 50, and then the electronic billing information 20 can be obtained at the payment place. The billing application software 30 is displayed, and the billing information 20 will display the relevant billing information. The user can switch between different billing information 20 by sliding left and right, thereby providing users with convenience when paying electronic bills. sex.

Referring to Fig. 3 in conjunction with Fig. 1, after the billing agency information system 40 and the electronic billing integration platform 10 agree, the email 42 sent by the billing agency information system 40 has a plurality of attachment files 43, each of the attachments The files 43 correspond to the billing information 20 of a single user, and each of the billing information 20 is combined with a code specification data 21 to generate at least one code 211. Using this integration method, the attachment files 43 are sent uniformly using the email 42. This will help improve the reading efficiency of the electronic bill management system 11. In this embodiment, the email parsing module 14 is integrated with the email server 12. When the email 42 is sent to the electronic The mail server 12 will be parsed by the email parsing module 14, and the known bill information 20 will be directly stored in the database 15. The advantage of the embodiment is that the email 42 does not need to be stored, and the billing information 20 can be directly obtained through the email analysis module 14, thereby reducing the overall storage space occupation.

For example: suppose that the billing number data (A123) in the billing information 20 is combined with the barcode specification data 21 (code 39) to generate the bar code 211 of the billing number; or the payment amount of the billing information 20 (520 yuan) with the barcode specification data 21 (code 39) will generate a payment amount of the barcode 211, the above written-off number data or payment amount are listed values, not used to limit the creation, in addition, the barcode specifications Data 21 is based on the specifications agreed by the collection agency and the billing agency’s information system, and is not limited to code 39.

4, this embodiment discloses that the billing information 20 can also be stored in a mail header 44 of the email 42, which is stored in the email storage space 13 of the email server 12. , Obtain the bill information 20 in the mail header 44 through the email analysis module 14, and then store the bill information 20 in the database 15.

It should be noted that the above-mentioned embodiments are only illustrative to illustrate the principles and effects of the present invention, and are not used to limit the scope of the present invention. Anyone familiar with the technology can modify and change the embodiments without departing from the technical principles and spirit of the present invention. Therefore, the scope of protection of the rights of the present invention should be as described in the scope of patent application described later.

10: Electronic billing integration platform

211: Barcode

30: Electronic billing application software

40: Billing Agency Information System

50: Smart device

Claims (7)

An electronic billing system includes: an electronic billing integration platform with an electronic billing management system, an email server, an email parsing module, and a database. The electronic billing management system provides user registration and Corresponding to a dedicated email address to receive at least one email sent from a second email server by a billing agency information system, the email has at least one billing information, and the email server receives the account The e-mail sent by the single-organization information system is then analyzed by the e-mail parsing module to obtain the content of the bill information and store the bill information in the database; and An electronic billing application software installed on a smart device. The electronic billing application software connects to the electronic billing management system and reads the corresponding billing information in the database. The billing information will be displayed In the electronic billing application software. For example, in the electronic billing system of request 1, the billing information is stored in an attachment file of the email, and the attachment file corresponds to a single user. For example, the electronic billing system of claim 1, wherein after the billing agency information system and the electronic billing integration platform agree, the e-mail sent by the billing agency information system has multiple attachment files, and each attachment file is separate The billing information corresponding to a single user. For example, the electronic billing system of request item 1, wherein the billing information is stored in a mail header of the e-mail. For example, the electronic billing system of any one of request items 1 to 4, wherein the email server has an email storage space, and the email is stored in the email storage space and then processed by the email analysis module Analyze to get the billing information. For example, in the electronic billing system of any one of request items 1 to 4, after the email server receives the email, the email parsing module directly analyzes and obtains the bill information. For example, the electronic billing system of request item 1, wherein the billing information is combined with one code specification data to generate at least one code.

Images