Patent ID: 8689096
Filing Date: 2014-04-01
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-based method for completing missing data for a transaction-tax-related application, the method using completing rules which define, depending on which missing data is to be completed, what further data might be considered for deriving the missing data, the method comprising: receiving, by a computer system, a completing request for completing missing data for the transaction-tax-related application; evaluating, by the computer system, at least one completing rule associated with the missing data while using the further data as defined within the at least one completing rule to automatically derive data for completing the missing data, wherein the at least one completing rule specifies jurisdictional criteria for completing the missing data, wherein deriving the data for completing the missing data varies depending upon which jurisdiction is associated with the missing data; determining, by the computer system, an auto-completion certainty parameter as a result of the completing-rule evaluation; comparing, by the computer system, the certainty parameter with a certainty requirement; opening, by the computer system, a user dialog, in response to the certainty parameter's failure to fulfill the certainty requirement, and determining data to be used as the completed data in the user dialog; using, by the computer system, the automatically derived data as the completed data without opening the user dialog, in response to the certainty parameter fulfilling the certainty requirement; and returning, by the computer system, the completed data.