Structured products based enterprise management system
First Claim
1. A process where business functions and or operations such as but not limited to contracts, transactions, services, logistics operations and or settlement are decomposed into Rights which are further composed of a collection of parameters and an optional code block which directs the system how to process the Right.
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Abstract
The field of invention is in Information Technology based management systems for the natural gas, data communications, electricity, medical, government supply chain and vehicle markets. The disclosed system manages core commercial activities and business for companies in these industries. These systems are specifically designed to not only handle complex transactions but to also allow the same system to be used across all core business functions, including: marketing, sales, contracting, production, delivery, business optimization and financial settlement.
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- 1. A process where business functions and or operations such as but not limited to contracts, transactions, services, logistics operations and or settlement are decomposed into Rights which are further composed of a collection of parameters and an optional code block which directs the system how to process the Right.
- 8. A software system based on Rights where the Rights are specified by a list of parameters and values.
- 27. A software system incorporating Rights where the Rights are specified by a list of parameters and values where the Rights represent generic business functions and can be independently assembled to configure services.
- 32. A software system incorporating Rights in which a Right can have associated one or more ancillary objects or parameter groups that enables the system to provide a pricing or valuation function.
- 40. A software system incorporating Rights in which each Right can have associated one or more ancillary objects or parameter groups that enables the system to provide a tiering function within the Rights and or a hierarchy of Rights.
- 46. A software system incorporating Rights in which each Right can have associated one or more ancillary objects or parameter groups that enables the system to provide a prioritization or scheduling function.
- 51. A software system incorporating Rights in which each Right can have associated one or more ancillary objects or parameter groups that enables the system to provide a time interval and optionally a recurrence pattern for the Right.
- 54. A software system that provides for the creation of configurable services through the combination of one or more Rights.
- 64. A software system that processes Rights to accomplish business functions or services which specifically include business agreements and or the core business processes used to support the business agreements.
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77. A software system that allows for the definition and the use of Rights.
- 78. A Rights based system that performs portfolio management functions by calculating an aggregate position of one or more Rights or options.
- 83. A Rights based system that specifically manages a series of transactions involving multiple events occurring over a time period.
- 86. A computer system that processes time dependent data without the necessity of defining a time interval on which the system operates.
- 89. A system that uses mapping schemes to facilitate the population of Rights from a set of input parameters.
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