Patent ID: 9619666
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Claim:
1. A method for verifying a target attribute of a company profile record for a procurement application, said method comprising: ascertaining, by a processor of a computer system, that a database coupled to the procurement application stores the company profile record comprising the target attribute and a validity attribute associated with the target attribute of the company profile record, wherein the validity attribute has either a VALID value or an INVALID value respectively indicating that the target attribute in the company profile record has a valid value or an invalid value within the database, wherein a target value of the target attribute of the company profile record and a validity value of the validity attribute of the company profile record are respectively configured by respective inputs from an administrator of the procurement application; said processor insuring that the database stores a first user profile record and a second user profile record, that a first user of a requisition transaction corresponds to the first user profile record, that the first user profile record comprises the target attribute having a value identical to a value of the target attribute of a first company profile record associated with a first company represented by the first user, and that the validity attribute of the first company profile record has the VALID value wherein the first user initiates the requisition transaction only when the target attribute of the first company profile record is valid; said processor verifying a requisition object record corresponding to the requisition transaction, wherein the requisition object record comprises the target attribute and a validity flag, wherein the validity flag of the requisition object record indicates whether or not the requisition object record is valid and usable in the requisition transaction, wherein the requisition object record had been created by the first user within the database by instantiating a value of the target attribute of the requisition object record with a corresponding value of the target attribute of the first user profile record from said insuring, wherein the first user is enabled to modify the requisition transaction to involve a second user representing a second company only when the second user profile record has a valid target attribute, wherein said verifying comprises: