TWI811533B - Electronic Billing System - Google Patents

Abstract

An electronic bill system is an electronic bill integration platform that is linked to an electronic bill application software. The electronic bill integration platform has an electronic bill management system, an email server, an email parsing module and a database. The electronic bill integration platform The single-application software connects to the electronic bill management system and reads the corresponding bill information in the database, so that the bill information is presented in the electronic bill application software, thereby providing users with a more convenient electronic bill payment method, and Application to consolidate multiple bills.

Description

electronic billing system

The present invention is an electronic billing system, particularly an electronic billing application software that can integrate multiple pieces of billing information sent via email to a smart device, thereby providing users with the convenience of payment and integrating multiple Electronic billing system for billing information.

At present, the common forms of electronic billing are through mobile phone text messages or sending emails (Email) to achieve the purpose of saving paper and environmental protection.

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

The e-mail of the above-mentioned electronic bill will be sent to a second e-mail server 70 of the recipient through a first e-mail server 61 belonging to the sender through a standard e-mail transmission format. Then use an email client software 80 that meets the standards and is approved to view the email of the electronic bill. Generally speaking, the email client software 80 opens the second email 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 electronic bill applications, the billing agency information system 60 transmits electronic bills through email. The information is only for the purpose of "conveying" and has not fully considered the convenience of reading and bill payment.

For example: when the bill recipient wants to use the barcode specification data in this electronic bill to pay at a convenience store, he must print out the bill, or open the email application APP on his mobile phone, find and open the electronic bill email, then open the attached file containing the electronic bill and enter the password. After opening the attached file, find the barcode specifications and zoom in or out on the mobile screen, and move it to an appropriate position to facilitate the convenience store personnel to scan the barcode. Specification information to complete the payment of electronic bills. And if the user wants to pay multiple electronic bills at the same time, he or she needs to repeat the above steps many times. In addition to having numerous emails that are difficult to find, they often forget whether to pay or not.

Therefore, the inventor relied on his relevant practical experience and actively developed a simple and practical alternative device through long-term thinking, prototype testing and continuous improvement.

The invention discloses an electronic billing system, which is an electronic billing integration platform and 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 is given an exclusive email address to receive at least one email sent by a billing agency information system from a second email server, the email has at least one billing information, and the email server receives the The email sent by the billing agency information system is then parsed by the email parsing module to obtain the billing information content and store the billing 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 to receive the content of the bill information, such as bill number, cancellation number, payment period and payment amount, etc. without infringing on the privacy of the recipient. The user does not need to read the bill information. The email will be sorted through the electronic bill integration platform. The user only needs to open the electronic bill application software through the smart device to obtain the bill information. The user only needs to open it when paying. With the electronic bill application software, you can make payment by clicking on the bill information you want to pay, which reduces the time of searching for the bill information to be paid and greatly improves convenience.

[Invention]

10: Electronic bill 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 specifications

211:Barcode

30: Electronic billing application software

40:Billing agency information system

41:Second email server

42:Email

43: Attachment file

44: Email header

50:Smart device

[common usage]

60:Billing agency information system

61:First email server

70: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 schematic structural block diagram of the first embodiment of the present invention.

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

[Figure 4] is a schematic structural block diagram of the third embodiment of the present invention.

[Figure 5] is a schematic diagram of a conventional structural block

Referring to Figures 1 and 2, an electronic billing system is disclosed, which is an electronic bill integration platform 10 having an electronic bill management system 11, an email server 12, an email parsing module 14 and a database 15 , the electronic bill management system 11 provides users with registration and correspondingly assigned exclusive email addresses to receive at least one email 42 sent from a second email server 41 by a billing agency information system 40. The email 42 has at least one attachment file 43. The attachment file 43 corresponds to a billing information 20 of a single user. The billing information 20 is the amount, cancellation number, payment period, billing number or any combination of the above. The billing information 20 20 can be matched with one code specifications The data 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 email storage space 13 is obtained, the email 42 is parsed by the email parsing module 14. The parsed content of the email 42 includes the sender of the email 42, the recipient of the email 42, the content and The attachment file 43 is used to obtain the content of the bill information 20 by parsing the attachment file 43, and the bill information 20 is stored in the database 15; and an electronic bill application software 30 is installed on 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. The bill information 20 will be presented 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 bill application software 30 on the smart device 50, and then transfer the electronic bill at the payment location. The bill application software 30 is displayed, and the bill information 20 will display relevant payment information. The user can switch to different bill information 20 by sliding left and right, thereby providing the user with convenience when paying electronic bills. sex.

Referring to Figure 3 in conjunction with Figure 1, after the billing agency information system 40 and the electronic bill integration platform 10 have agreed, the email 42 sent by the billing agency information system 40 has a plurality of attachment files 43, each of which is attached. The files 43 respectively correspond to the billing information 20 of a single user. Each of the billing information 20 is matched with the one-code specification data 21 to generate at least one code 211. This integration method is used to uniformly send the attachment files 43 using the email 42. It will help to improve the reading efficiency of the electronic bill management system 11; and in this embodiment, the email parsing module 14 is integrated with the email server 12. When the email 42 is sent to the electronic bill server 12, The email server 12 will be parsed by the email parsing module 14, and the billing information 20 will be directly stored in the database 15. In practice, The advantage of this embodiment is that the email 42 does not need to be stored, and the billing information 20 can be directly obtained through the email parsing module 14, thereby reducing the overall storage space occupied.

For example: assuming that the charge-off number data (A123) in the bill information 20 is matched with the barcode specification data 21 (code 39), a charge-off number of the bar code 211 will be generated; or the payment amount of the bill information 20 (520 yuan) combined with the barcode specification data 21 (code 39) will generate a payment amount of the barcode 211. The above cancellation number data or payment amount are enumerated values and are not used to limit this creation. In addition, the barcode specification Data 21 is based on the specifications agreed between the collection agency and the billing agency's information system, and is not limited to code 39.

Referring to FIG. 4 , this embodiment discloses that the billing information 20 may also be stored in a mail header 44 of the email 42 stored in the email storage space 13 of the email server 12 , the billing information 20 in the email header 44 is obtained through the email parsing module 14, and then the billing information 20 is stored in the database 15.

It should be noted that the above embodiments are only illustrative of the principles and effects of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention. Anyone skilled in the art can make modifications and changes to the embodiments without violating the technical principles and spirit of the invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention should be as described in the patent application scope described below.

10: Electronic bill integration platform

211:Barcode

30: Electronic billing application software

40:Billing agency information system

50:Smart device

Claims (3)

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 A unique email address is assigned to receive at least one email sent from a second email server by a billing agency information system, the email having at least one billing information, and the billing information at least includes sales information. The bill number and payment amount are stored in a header of the email, and the bill information is combined with barcode specification data to generate at least one code. The barcode specification data is based on a collection institution and the account. The email server receives the email sent by the billing organization information system, and then the email parsing module parses the email to obtain the billing information content. and store the bill information in the database; and an electronic bill application software installed on a smart device, the electronic bill application software is connected to the electronic bill management system and reads the database Corresponding to the billing information, the billing information will be presented in the electronic billing application software. For example, the electronic billing system of request item 1, wherein the email server has an email storage space, and the email is stored in the email storage space and then analyzed by the email parsing module to obtain the bill information. For example, in the electronic billing system of request item 1, after receiving the email, the email server directly parses the email parsing module to obtain the billing information.

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