Asset-based lease transaction management and accounting system
First Claim
1. A lease transaction management and accounting system comprising:
- an asset processing subsystem including an asset and at least one asset attribute partially defining said asset, wherein said asset processing subsystem selectively creates, modifies, or deletes said asset or said asset attribute;
a lease processing subsystem including a lease and at least one lease attribute partially defining said lease, wherein said lease processing subsystem selectively creates, modifies, or deletes said lease or said lease attribute; and
wherein a plurality of assets are associated with said lease, said lease processing subsystem invoking said asset processing subsystem to enact identical and substantially simultaneous changes to said asset attribute for said plurality of assets.
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Abstract
A system is provide for effectively managing lease transactions in a comprehensive manner. Data is generated, processed, and stored at the lowest possible logical level in order to maximize the flexibility of a user to conduct processing at the asset, billing schedule, lease, account owner, master agreement, customer, or program level. Using a fully normalized data design, similar characteristics are treated similarly and different characteristics are treated differently. Unlike other systems, assets associated with the same lease can be treated differently without having to fake asset level processing by using multiple leases with one asset each, to represent one actual lease. A hierarchy of rule settings is enforced, whereby the rule at the lower more specific level trumps the rule at the higher or more general level. The system uses a highly encapsulated accounting engine which encapsulates accounting rules in a transparent incorporates accounting expertise in flexible and transparent manner. The accounting engine is triggered by business events to automatically generate accounting entries.
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44 Claims
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1. A lease transaction management and accounting system comprising:
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an asset processing subsystem including an asset and at least one asset attribute partially defining said asset, wherein said asset processing subsystem selectively creates, modifies, or deletes said asset or said asset attribute;
a lease processing subsystem including a lease and at least one lease attribute partially defining said lease, wherein said lease processing subsystem selectively creates, modifies, or deletes said lease or said lease attribute; and
wherein a plurality of assets are associated with said lease, said lease processing subsystem invoking said asset processing subsystem to enact identical and substantially simultaneous changes to said asset attribute for said plurality of assets. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A lease transaction management and accounting system comprising:
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an asset processing subsystem including an asset and at least one asset attribute partially defining said asset, wherein said asset processing subsystem selectively creates, modifies, or deletes said asset or said asset attribute;
a lease processing subsystem including a lease;
a billing schedule processing subsystem including a billing schedule;
a plurality of operational rules, wherein a first subset of operational rules is enacted for said asset or said asset attribute, a second subset of operational rules is enacted for said asset or asset attributes associated with said billing schedule, and a third subset of operational rules is enacted for said asset or asset attributes associated with said lease, said lease, wherein in the case of a conflict, said second subset supersedes said third subset, and said first subset supersedes said second subset and said third subset. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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35. A lease transaction management and accounting system comprising:
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an asset processing subsystem including an asset and at least one asset attribute partially defining said asset, wherein said asset processing subsystem selectively creates, modifies, or deletes said asset or said asset attribute;
a lease processing subsystem including a lease and at least one lease attribute partially defining said lease, wherein said lease processing subsystem selectively creates, modifies, or deletes said lease or said lease attribute; and
wherein a plurality of assets are associated with said lease, each of said assets sharing a common asset attribute, and including the grouping of values associated with said common asset attribute for a representation of said lease. - View Dependent Claims (36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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41. A lease transaction management and accounting system comprising:
an asset processing subsystem including a plurality of assets and at least one asset attribute partially defining said plurality of assets, a parent asset including various components and a child asset, wherein at least one component is split from said various components of said parent asset to create said child asset. - View Dependent Claims (42, 43)
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44. A lease transaction management and accounting system comprising:
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an asset processing subsystem including an asset and a plurality of asset attributes defining said asset, wherein said asset processing subsystem selectively creates, modifies, or deletes said asset or said asset attributes;
a billing schedule subsystem including a billing schedule and a plurality of billing schedule attributes defining said billing schedule, wherein said billing schedule subsystem selectively creates, modifies, or deletes said billing schedule or said billing schedule attributes;
a lease processing subsystem including a lease and a plurality of lease attributes defining said lease, wherein said lease processing subsystem selectively creates, modifies, or deletes said lease or said lease attributes;
a plurality of operational rules, wherein first subset of operational rules are enacted for said asset or said asset attributes, said second subset of operational rules are enacted for said asset or said asset attributes associated with said billing schedule, and said third subset of operational rules are enacted for said asset or said asset attributes associated with said lease, said lease, wherein in the case of a conflict, said second subset supersedes said third subset, and said first subset supersedes said second subset and said third subset; and
a plurality of financial values and a plurality financial calculations including a billing schedule level financial calculation and a lease level financial calculation, wherein said financial values comprises a subset of said asset attributes, and said asset processing system calculates said billing schedule level financial calculation using all said financial values associated with said billing schedule and said asset processing system calculates said lease level financial calculation using all said financial values associated with said lease;
wherein a plurality of said assets are associated with said lease, said lease processing subsystem invoking said asset processing subsystem to enact identical and substantially simultaneous changes to a first selection of said asset attributes for said plurality of assets associated with said lease; and
wherein a plurality of said assets are associated with said billing schedule, said billing schedule subsystem invoking said asset processing subsystem to enact identical and substantially simultaneous changes to a second selection of said asset attributes for said plurality of assets associated with said billing schedule.
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