Patent ID: 6687708
Filing Date: 2004-02-03
Classification: G06F,G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
An apparatus comprising:at least one processor; a memory; and an operating system residing in the memory and supporting an application having an application interface layer and an underlying application functionality layer associated with the interface layer, wherein the functionality layer comprises an object-oriented environment comprising a framework that provides at least one collection document object that corresponds to and tracks a collection document, which is an unconditional order in writing as satisfaction of a debt in which a debtor promises to pay a bearer in exchange for at least one benefit that has been or will be received by the debtor, wherein the at least one collection document object has a life cycle that begins when the at least one collection document object is created in a creation state, that traverses at least one of a plurality of intermediate states and that ends at one of a plurality of ending states, each state of the collection document object corresponding to a state of the collection document, each state connected to at least one other state through at least one transition.