METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING GLOBAL READY FINANCIAL APPLICATIONS

• US 20150221043A1
• Filed: 04/04/2014
• Published: 08/06/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/05/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Intuit, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Intuit, Inc.
• Inventors: Chithambaram, Nemmara, Verma, Anshu, Koshy, Linu Mathew
• Application Number:
  US14/245,912
• Publication Number:
  US 20150221043A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/40 Processing or translation of natural language natural language analysis G06F40/20; semantic analysis G06F40/30
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/02 Banking, e.g. interest calculation or account maintenance credit or loans G06Q40/03
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/12 Accounting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles

Abstract

Global ready financial applications are provided that are dynamically composed using application independent global ready financial assets so that a single global ready financial application, once created, can be operationally and functionally optimized for multiple supported regions to be used by any party, in any, or all, of the multiple supported regions.

Claims

1. A computing system implemented method for providing global ready financial applications comprising the following, which when executed individually or collectively by any set of one or more processors perform a process including:

providing one or more global ready financial assets, each of the one or more global ready financial assets being a different global ready financial asset type, each of the one or more global ready financial assets including regionally optimized logic for providing regionally optimized modeling and functionality associated with that type of global ready financial asset for two or more distinct regions;

providing a global ready financial application;

a user accessing the global ready financial application through a user interface;

determining the region associated with the user; and

composing a regionally optimized global ready financial application that is optimized for the determined region associated with the user, the regionally optimized global ready financial application being composed using the regionally optimized modeling and functionality logic for the determined region associated with user of at least one of the one or more global ready financial assets.

2. The computing system implemented method for providing global ready financial applications of claim 1 wherein at least one of the one or more global ready financial assets is selected from the group of global ready financial assets consisting of:

an identity global ready financial asset to provide the identity model, logic, and functionality to the global ready financial application for the two or more regions;

a tax model global ready financial asset to provide the tax model, logic, and functionality to be used by the global ready financial application in the two or more regions;

a payment gateway global ready financial asset to provide the localized payment gateway model, logic, and functionality to be used by the global ready financial application in the two or more regions

a billing global ready financial asset to provide the billing and payment model, logic, and functionality to be used by the global ready financial application in the two or more regions;

a bank feeds global ready financial asset to provide the bank feed model, logic, and functionality to the global ready financial application for the two or more regions;

a currency conversion global ready financial asset to provide the local currency model, logic, and functionality to the global ready financial application for the two or more regions; and

a user contribution and/or local templates global ready financial asset to provide the personalized service and template model, logic, and functionality to the global ready financial application for the two or more regions.

3. The computing system implemented method for providing global ready financial applications of claim 1 wherein the global ready financial application is selected from the group of global ready financial applications consisting of:

an application for generating profit and loss reports;

an application for generating invoices;

an application for generating payroll;

an application for providing bank statements or on-line banking feeds;

an application for generating any financial reports;

an application for calculating tax;

an application for paying taxes;

an accounting application;

a point of sale application; and

an application for tracking and processing inventory.

4. The computing system implemented method for providing global ready financial applications of claim 1 wherein the region associated with the user is determined based, at least in part, on the IP address associated with a computing system used by the user to access the global ready financial application.

5. The computing system implemented method for providing global ready financial applications of claim 1 wherein the region associated with the user is determined based, at least in part, on the browser context, and/or default language associated with the browser, used to access the global ready financial application.

6. The computing system implemented method for providing global ready financial applications of claim 1 wherein the region associated with the user is determined based, at least in part, on profile data provided by the user.

7. A computing system implemented method for providing global ready financial applications comprising the following, which when executed individually or collectively by any set of one or more processors perform a process including:

providing one or more global ready financial assets, each of the one or more global ready financial assets being a different global ready financial asset type, each of the one or more global ready financial assets including regionally optimized logic for providing regionally optimized modeling and functionality associated with that type of global ready financial asset for two or more distinct regions;

providing a global ready financial application;

a first user accessing the global ready financial application through a user interface;

determining a first region associated with the first user;

composing a first regionally optimized global ready financial application that is optimized for the determined first region associated with the first user, the first regionally optimized global ready financial application being composed using the regionally optimized modeling and functionality for the determined first region of at least one of the one or more global ready financial assets;

a second user accessing the global ready financial application through a user interface;

determining a second region associated with the second user, the second region associated with the second user being distinct from the first region associated with the first user; and

composing a second regionally optimized global ready financial application that is optimized for the determined second region associated with the second user, the second regionally optimized global ready financial application being composed using the regionally optimized modeling and functionality for the determined second region of at least one of the one or more global ready financial assets.

8. The computing system implemented method for providing global ready financial applications of claim 7 wherein at least one of the one or more global ready financial assets is selected from the group of global ready financial assets consisting of:

an identity global ready financial asset to provide the identity model, logic, and functionality to the global ready financial application for the two or more regions;

a tax model global ready financial asset to provide the tax model, logic, and functionality to be used by the global ready financial application in the two or more regions;

a payment gateway global ready financial asset to provide the localized payment gateway model, logic, and functionality to be used by the global ready financial application in the two or more regions

a billing global ready financial asset to provide the billing and payment model, logic, and functionality to be used by the global ready financial application in the two or more regions;

a bank feeds global ready financial asset to provide the bank feed model, logic, and functionality to the global ready financial application for the two or more regions;

a currency conversion global ready financial asset to provide the local currency model, logic, and functionality to the global ready financial application for the two or more regions; and

a user contribution and/or local templates global ready financial asset to provide the personalized service and template model, logic, and functionality to the global ready financial application for the two or more regions.

9. The computing system implemented method for providing global ready financial applications of claim 7 wherein the global ready financial application is selected from the group of global ready financial applications consisting of:

an application for generating profit and loss reports;

an application for generating invoices;

an application for generating payroll;

an application for providing bank statements or on-line banking feeds;

an application for generating any financial reports;

an application for calculating tax;

an application for paying taxes;

an accounting application;

a point of sale application; and

an application for tracking and processing inventory.

10. The computing system implemented method for providing global ready financial applications of claim 7 wherein the first and/or second region associated with the first and second users is determined based, at least in part, on the IP address associated with computing systems used by the first and second users to access the global ready financial application.

11. The computing system implemented method for providing global ready financial applications of claim 7 wherein the first and/or second regions associated with the first and second users is determined based, at least in part, on the browser context, and/or default language associated with the browsers, used to access the global ready financial application.

12. The computing system implemented method for providing global ready financial applications of claim 7 wherein the first and/or second regions associated with the first and second users is determined based, at least in part, on profile data provided by the first and second users.

13. A computing system implemented method for providing global ready financial applications comprising the following, which when executed individually or collectively by any set of one or more processors perform a process including:

providing one or more global ready financial assets, each of the one or more global ready financial assets being a different global ready financial asset type, each of the one or more global ready financial assets including regionally optimized logic for providing regionally optimized modeling and functionality associated with that type of global ready financial asset for two or more distinct regions;

providing a first global ready financial application;

providing a second global ready financial application, the second global ready financial application being distinct from the first global ready financial application;

a user accessing the first global ready financial application through a user interface;

determining the region associated with the user;

composing a regionally optimized first global ready financial application that is optimized for the determined region associated with the user, the regionally optimized first global ready financial application being composed using the regionally optimized modeling and functionality for the determined region associated with user of at least one of the one or more global ready financial assets;

a user accessing the second global ready financial application through a user interface; and

composing a regionally optimized second global ready financial application that is optimized for the determined region associated with the user, the regionally optimized second global ready financial application instance being composed using the regionally optimized modeling and functionality for the determined region associated with user of at least one of the one or more global ready financial assets.

14. The computing system implemented method for providing global ready financial applications of claim 13 wherein at least one of the one or more global ready financial assets is selected from the group of global ready financial assets consisting of:

an identity global ready financial asset to provide the identity model, logic, and functionality to the first and second global ready financial applications for the two or more regions;

a tax model global ready financial asset to provide the tax model, logic, and functionality to be used by the first and second global ready financial applications in the two or more regions;

a payment gateway global ready financial asset to provide the localized payment gateway model, logic, and functionality to be used by the first and second global ready financial applications in the two or more regions

a billing global ready financial asset to provide the billing and payment model, logic, and functionality to be used by the first and second global ready financial applications in the two or more regions;

a bank feeds global ready financial asset to provide the bank feed model, logic, and functionality to the first and second global ready financial applications for the two or more regions;

a currency conversion global ready financial asset to provide the local currency model, logic, and functionality to the first and second global ready financial applications for the two or more regions; and

a user contribution and/or local templates global ready financial asset to provide the personalized service and template model, logic, and functionality to the first and second global ready financial applications for the two or more regions.

15. The computing system implemented method for providing global ready financial applications of claim 13 wherein at least one of the first global ready financial application and/or the second global ready financial application is selected from the group of global ready financial applications consisting of:

an application for generating profit and loss reports;

an application for generating invoices;

an application for generating payroll;

an application for providing bank statements or on-line banking feeds;

an application for generating any financial reports;

an application for calculating tax;

an application for paying taxes;

an accounting application;

a point of sale application; and

an application for tracking and processing inventory.

16. The computing system implemented method for providing global ready financial applications of claim 13 wherein the region associated with a user is determined based, at least in part, on the IP address associated with a computing system used by the user to access the global ready financial application.

17. The computing system implemented method for providing global ready financial applications of claim 13 wherein the region associated with a user is determined based, at least in part, on the browser context, and/or default language associated with the browser, used to access the global ready financial application.

18. The computing system implemented method for providing global ready financial applications of claim 13 wherein the region associated with a user is determined based, at least in part, on profile data provided by the user.

19. A system for providing global ready financial applications comprising:

one or more global ready financial assets, each of the one or more global ready financial assets being a different global ready financial asset type, each of the one or more global ready financial assets including regionally optimized logic for providing regionally optimized modeling and functionality associated with that type of global ready financial asset for two or more distinct regions;

at least one global ready financial application;

a user interface;

at least one processor; and

at least one memory coupled to the at least one processor, the at least one memory having stored therein instructions which when executed by any set of the one or more processors, perform a process for providing global ready financial applications, the process for providing global ready financial applications including;

a user accessing the global ready financial application through a user interface;

determining the region associated with the user; and

composing a regionally optimized global ready financial application that is optimized for the determined region associated with the user, the regionally optimized global ready financial application being composed using the regionally optimized modeling and functionality logic for the determined region associated with user of at least one of the one or more global ready financial assets.

20. The system for providing global ready financial applications of claim 19 wherein at least one of the one or more global ready financial assets is selected from the group of global ready financial assets consisting of:

an identity global ready financial asset to provide the identity model, logic, and functionality to the global ready financial application for the two or more regions;

a tax model global ready financial asset to provide the tax model, logic, and functionality to be used by the global ready financial application in the two or more regions;

a payment gateway global ready financial asset to provide the localized payment gateway model, logic, and functionality to be used by the global ready financial application in the two or more regions

a billing global ready financial asset to provide the billing and payment model, logic, and functionality to be used by the global ready financial application in the two or more regions;

a bank feeds global ready financial asset to provide the bank feed model, logic, and functionality to the global ready financial application for the two or more regions;

a currency conversion global ready financial asset to provide the local currency model, logic, and functionality to the global ready financial application for the two or more regions; and

a user contribution and/or local templates global ready financial asset to provide the personalized service and template model, logic, and functionality to the global ready financial application for the two or more regions.

21. The system for providing global ready financial applications of claim 19 wherein the global ready financial application is selected from the group of global ready financial applications consisting of:

an application for generating profit and loss reports;

an application for generating invoices;

an application for generating payroll;

an application for providing bank statements or on-line banking feeds;

an application for generating any financial reports;

an application for calculating tax;

an application for paying taxes;

an accounting application;

a point of sale application; and

an application for tracking and processing inventory.

22. The system for providing global ready financial applications of claim 19 wherein the region associated with the user is determined based, at least in part, on the IP address associated with a computing system used by the user to access the global ready financial application.

23. The system for providing global ready financial applications of claim 19 wherein the region associated with the user is determined based, at least in part, on the browser context, and/or default language associated with the browser, used to access the global ready financial application.

24. The system for providing global ready financial applications of claim 19 wherein the region associated with the user is determined based, at least in part, on profile data provided by the user.

25. A system for providing global ready financial applications comprising:

one or more global ready financial assets, each of the one or more global ready financial assets being a different global ready financial asset type, each of the one or more global ready financial assets including regionally optimized logic for providing regionally optimized modeling and functionality associated with that type of global ready financial asset for two or more distinct regions;

at least one global ready financial application;

a user interface;

at least one processor; and

at least one memory coupled to the at least one processor, the at least one memory having stored therein instructions which when executed by any set of the one or more processors, perform a process for providing global ready financial applications, the process for providing global ready financial applications including;

a first user accessing the global ready financial application through a user interface;

determining a first region associated with the first user;

composing a first regionally optimized global ready financial application that is optimized for the determined first region associated with the first user, the first regionally optimized global ready financial application being composed using the regionally optimized modeling and functionality for the determined first region of at least one of the one or more global ready financial assets;

a second user accessing the global ready financial application through a user interface;

determining a second region associated with the second user, the second region associated with the second user being distinct from the first region associated with the first user; and

composing a second regionally optimized global ready financial application that is optimized for the determined second region associated with the second user, the second regionally optimized global ready financial application being composed using the regionally optimized modeling and functionality for the determined second region of at least one of the one or more global ready financial assets.

26. The system for providing global ready financial applications of claim 25 wherein at least one of the one or more global ready financial assets is selected from the group of global ready financial assets consisting of:

an identity global ready financial asset to provide the identity model, logic, and functionality to the global ready financial application for the two or more regions;

a tax model global ready financial asset to provide the tax model, logic, and functionality to be used by the global ready financial application in the two or more regions;

a payment gateway global ready financial asset to provide the localized payment gateway model, logic, and functionality to be used by the global ready financial application in the two or more regions

a billing global ready financial asset to provide the billing and payment model, logic, and functionality to be used by the global ready financial application in the two or more regions;

a bank feeds global ready financial asset to provide the bank feed model, logic, and functionality to the global ready financial application for the two or more regions;

a currency conversion global ready financial asset to provide the local currency model, logic, and functionality to the global ready financial application for the two or more regions; and

a user contribution and/or local templates global ready financial asset to provide the personalized service and template model, logic, and functionality to the global ready financial application for the two or more regions.

27. The system for providing global ready financial applications of claim 25 wherein the global ready financial application is selected from the group of global ready financial applications consisting of:

an application for generating profit and loss reports;

an application for generating invoices;

an application for generating payroll;

an application for providing bank statements or on-line banking feeds;

an application for generating any financial reports;

an application for calculating tax;

an application for paying taxes;

an accounting application;

a point of sale application; and

an application for tracking and processing inventory.

28. The system for providing global ready financial applications of claim 25 wherein the first and/or second region associated with the first and second users is determined based, at least in part, on the IP address associated with computing systems used by the first and second users to access the global ready financial application.

29. The system for providing global ready financial applications of claim 25 wherein the first and/or second regions associated with the first and second users is determined based, at least in part, on the browser context, and/or default language associated with the browsers, used to access the global ready financial application.

30. The system for providing global ready financial applications of claim 25 wherein the first and/or second regions associated with the first and second users is determined based, at least in part, on profile data provided by the first and second users.

31. A system for providing global ready financial applications comprising:

one or more global ready financial assets, each of the one or more global ready financial assets being a different global ready financial asset type, each of the one or more global ready financial assets including regionally optimized logic for providing regionally optimized modeling and functionality associated with that type of global ready financial asset for two or more distinct regions;

a first global ready financial application;

a second global ready financial application, the second global ready financial application being distinct from the first global ready financial application;

a user interface;

at least one processor; and

at least one memory coupled to the at least one processor, the at least one memory having stored therein instructions which when executed by any set of the one or more processors, perform a process for providing global ready financial applications, the process for providing global ready financial applications including;

a user accessing the first global ready financial application through a user interface;

determining the region associated with the user;

composing a regionally optimized first global ready financial application that is optimized for the determined region associated with the user, the regionally optimized first global ready financial application being composed using the regionally optimized modeling and functionality for the determined region associated with user of at least one of the one or more global ready financial assets;

a user accessing the second global ready financial application through a user interface; and

composing a regionally optimized second global ready financial application that is optimized for the determined region associated with the user, the regionally optimized second global ready financial application instance being composed using the regionally optimized modeling and functionality for the determined region associated with user of at least one of the one or more global ready financial assets.

32. The system for providing global ready financial applications of claim 31 wherein at least one of the one or more global ready financial assets is selected from the group of global ready financial assets consisting of:

an identity global ready financial asset to provide the identity model, logic, and functionality to the first and second global ready financial applications for the two or more regions;

a tax model global ready financial asset to provide the tax model, logic, and functionality to be used by the first and second global ready financial applications in the two or more regions;

a payment gateway global ready financial asset to provide the localized payment gateway model, logic, and functionality to be used by the first and second global ready financial applications in the two or more regions

a billing global ready financial asset to provide the billing and payment model, logic, and functionality to be used by the first and second global ready financial applications in the two or more regions;

a bank feeds global ready financial asset to provide the bank feed model, logic, and functionality to the first and second global ready financial applications for the two or more regions;

a currency conversion global ready financial asset to provide the local currency model, logic, and functionality to the first and second global ready financial applications for the two or more regions; and

a user contribution and/or local templates global ready financial asset to provide the personalized service and template model, logic, and functionality to the first and second global ready financial applications for the two or more regions.

33. The system for providing global ready financial applications of claim 31 wherein at least one of the first global ready financial application and/or the second global ready financial application is selected from the group of global ready financial applications consisting of:

an application for generating profit and loss reports;

an application for generating invoices;

an application for generating payroll;

an application for providing bank statements or on-line banking feeds;

an application for generating any financial reports;

an application for calculating tax;

an application for paying taxes;

an accounting application;

a point of sale application; and

an application for tracking and processing inventory.

34. The system for providing global ready financial applications of claim 31 wherein the region associated with a user is determined based, at least in part, on the IP address associated with a computing system used by the user to access the global ready financial application.

35. The system for providing global ready financial applications of claim 31 wherein the region associated with a user is determined based, at least in part, on the browser context, and/or default language associated with the browser, used to access the global ready financial application.

36. The system for providing global ready financial applications of claim 31 wherein the region associated with a user is determined based, at least in part, on profile data provided by the user.