Inventors:
Karen L Wong - New York NY, US
Fred Jubitz - Ridgewood NJ, US
Luigi E Merli - Tuckahoe NY, US
Jean-Paul D Ndong - Weehawken NJ, US
Leena H Parikh - Hantidale NY, US
Joya A Mukherjee - New York NY, US
Keye G Jin - Montclair NJ, US
Priyo B Chatterjee - Staten Island NY, US
Subhash C Khatri - East Windsor NJ, US
Luckner B Polycarpe - Brooklyn NY, US
Assignee:
American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. - New York NY
International Classification:
G06Q 40/00
Abstract:
A method and apparatus are provided for a no pre-set spending limit transaction card with features and attributes of both a credit card and a charge card, including an overlimit spend feature and an associated communicated line of credit. The transaction card may carry a balance like a credit card and may require that a card user pay down the balance carried forward to the line of credit subsequent to the end of each billing cycle. When the user has reached or exceeded the communicated line of credit, each subsequent transaction request for a new transaction by the user is evaluated on a case-by-case basis by a process that includes execution an overlimit spend authorization logic or process.