Patent ID: 9454577
Filing Date: 2016-09-27
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q

Claim Text:
1. An employee reimbursement administering processor-implemented method, comprising: displaying on a computer display screen a list of selectable benefits for an employee, wherein the displayed benefits are dependent on the employee's characteristics comprising an employee's position with an employer; evaluating at least one business benefits rule of the employer to determine the employee's ability to select at least one displayed benefit; receiving and storing employee selection of at least one benefit as benefits purse of that employee, wherein said benefits comprise medical, life and disability insurance, health care, education, retirement and technology allowances offered by the employer; receiving a reimbursement request comprising at least an employee identifier and a plurality of reimbursement parameters; querying a database using the employee identifier and a plurality of reimbursement parameters to obtain a data-structure-tracking syntax-configured string associated with an employee, wherein the syntax-configured string consists of a plurality of component parts delimited by syntax separators, and where each part of the string tracks a separate data structure; utilizing the obtained data-structure tracking syntax-configured string, the employee identifier and a plurality of reimbursement parameters to generate a request to at least one business grammar rule database containing a plurality of business grammar rules for an enterprise in relation to employee benefits; retrieving at least one descriptive business grammar configured string based on the employee identifier and extracting at least one token from the descriptive business grammar configured string; querying the benefits rules database based on the at least one token and based on the generated request to retrieve at least one benefit rule of the employer with the employee identifier, wherein the retrieved at least one benefit rule indicates the allocation amounts provided by the employer for the benefits purse of the employee to a plurality of benefits; applying the retrieved at least one benefit rule associated with the employee identifier to the plurality of reimbursement parameters in the reimbursement request to determine whether a reimbursement authorization is permitted by the employer based on at least one business rule of said employer for the received reimbursement request and an amount of the permitted reimbursement payable from the benefits purse of the employee; instructing payment of a reimbursement based on the permitted reimbursement from the benefits purse of the employee associated with the employee identifier when the reimbursement authorization is permitted by the employer and the permitted reimbursement amount is determined based on the evaluated at least one benefit rule; and reducing the benefits purse of the employee by the amount of the permitted reimbursement.