摘要 |
<p>An on-line marketplace (120) for entities providing collection services (101) and those requesting collection services (105) is presented, see figure 1. The web-site of the present invention may assist Clients (105) in identifying the most effective set of Providers (101) in connection with the characteristics of their receivables. The present invention may also provide a method for rating the effectiveness of the collection companies as well as a method for rating the quality of the receivables where Clients may evaluate and select one or more appropriate Providers. A database of collected receivables, data mining techniques, or neural networks may be used to examine a set of receivables and determine a set of collection services for an optimal return. A client may select one or more providers based on a self selection process, an optimization process, an auction process.</p> |