Techniques for ensuring data security among participants in a web-centric insurance management system
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Abstract
A scalable, adaptable, modular, and web-centric Insurance Back-Office System (IBOS) for serving the needs of carriers, agencies, agents, and service providers in the insurance industry is disclosed. The IBOS provides a framework for allowing web-centric collaboration among agents, agencies, carriers, and service providers, using applications that manage applicants, cases, and policies in an efficient and secure manner. The IBOS infrastructure is designed to facilitate the creation of a new application, module, tool, or view in a simplified manner.
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33 Claims
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1. (canceled)
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2. A method for facilitating communication among at least one participant in an insurance-underwriting process, the method comprising:
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providing a web-based system for storing and organizing data related to the insurance-underwriting process, the web-based system adapted to allow collaboration among the at least one participant via the Internet, the web-based system comprising a multi-level modular architecture, the multi-level modular architecture comprising a plurality of applications, each application of the plurality of applications comprising a plurality of modules, each module of the plurality of modules comprising a plurality of tools, each tool of the plurality of tools comprising a plurality of views; sharing, via the web-based system, the data among the at least one participant; and wherein the at least one participant comprises at least one user, and the at least one user is associated with at least one role, the at least one role operative to determine the plurality of modules available to the at least one user, and the data available to the at least one user. - View Dependent Claims (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A system for facilitating communication among at least one participant in an insurance-underwriting process, the system comprising:
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a web-based system for storing and organizing data related to the insurance-underwriting process, the web-based system adapted to allow collaboration among the at least one participant via the Internet; wherein the web-based system comprising a multi-level modular architecture, the multi-level modular architecture comprising a plurality of applications, each application of the plurality of applications comprising a plurality of modules, each module of the plurality of modules comprising a plurality of tools, each tool of the plurality of tools comprising a plurality of views; and wherein the at least one participant comprises at least one user, and the at least one user is associated with at least one role, the at least one role operative to determine the plurality of modules available to the at least one user, and the data available to the at least one user. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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