Patent ID: 6308166
Filing Date: 2001-10-23
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
A template used in a computerized system to allocate costs, said template comprising:a construct stored in said computerized system,said construct having a set of functions each identifying at least one of a plurality of sender objects that provide resources or defining a relationship between one or more sender objects and a receiver object that consumes resources;said construct being configured so that a valuation thereof can be triggered by a costing application, and, in said valuation, said functions are applied using the latest available data at the time of valuation;said construct being defined by a system comprisingan interface adapted to be used by a user, said interface accepting from said user language-dependent names and descriptions of said functions, said language-dependent names and descriptions of said functions being in one of a plurality of languages;a parser parsing said language-dependent names and descriptions of said functions and creating control blocks as internal descriptions of said functions; anda generator generating an executable report dependent on said control blocks.