Patent ID: 8694344
Filing Date: 2014-04-08
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A data management apparatus comprising: a data storage part storing plural data each of which has at least a policy ID for specifying each insurance policy which is a contract between an insurer and an insured, a company ID for specifying each insurance company, a pattern variable ID and a data content, said data storage part having a policy ID storing region for storing the policy ID, a company ID storing region for storing the company ID, a pattern variable ID storing regions for storing pattern variable IDs and data contents storing regions for storing the data contents each of which is corresponding to each of said pattern variable ID storing region, a correspondence definition part for storing correspondences between said each pattern variable ID and each pattern variable name, the correspondence definition part being provided for each company ID, a means for obtaining data having a given policy ID from the data storage part, a means for processing data, the data processing including identifying the relation between said pattern variable ID and the pattern variable name in reference to said corresponding definition part identified by the company ID of said obtained data and obtaining the data content recorded in the data content storing region corresponding to the pattern variable ID storing region, thereby identifying the pattern variable name and data content of said obtained data, wherein a group definition part records a set-up condition for each group combining a plurality of policy IDs, the set-up condition showing data contents recordable in the data item of the data having policy ID in the light of data content of data item of other data having other policy ID in the group, and wherein the means for processing data specifies the group combining a plurality of policy IDs according to the data content, and wherein the means for processing data further determines, to ensure consistency of data, whether or not a pattern variable ID to be stored in the data storage part is recordable referring to the set-up condition recorded in a data definition part based on the combination of plural policy IDs of the plural grouped data, and when the pattern variable ID is recordable, the policy ID is updateable, and when the pattern variable ID is not recordable, the policy ID is not updateable and error information is output for display of an error message.