Patent ID: 8543480

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving a service oriented architecture (SOA) message from a logistics system over a communication network containing a raw exposure item including an identifier of a good, a quantity term, a price term, and a delivery term obtained from an electronic commercial document pertaining to an exchange of the good; identifying, using a processing device, a plurality of dates on which an event affecting the exchange of the good is to occur from at least one of the quantity term, the price term, and the delivery term; calculating a change in an exposure of an entity based on the occurrence of each event on each of the identified dates using the processing device; creating separate sub-raw exposure items for each of the identified dates including the calculated changed in the exposure on each respective date using the processing device; identifying those created sub-raw exposure items satisfying a mapping rule, the mapping rule specifying criteria for transferring data from the sub-raw exposure items to at least one exposure position; aggregating the identified sub-raw exposure items into the at least one exposure position; and reporting the at least one exposure position.