Patent ID: 8060411

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for generating an automatic authorization of a shopping cart created during electronic procurement of items depending on at least one value stored in a database table, comprising: retrieving, by a processor, data from the database table, the data including a data representing a budget-value and a data representing a cumulative amount spent during a specified time period assigned to a user performing the electronic procurement; calculating, by the processor, a total value of the items in the shopping cart; comparing, by the processor, a sum of the value of the cumulative amount spent and the total value of the items in the shopping cart with the budget-value; if the sum is less than or equal to the budget-value, generating, by the processor, the authorization, and updating, by the processor, the value of the cumulative amount spent by the total value of items in the shopping cart; if the sum is greater than the budget-value, generating an indication indicating that the budget-value is exceeded, wherein the retrieved data is retrieved from a first database table having organizational data objects and a second database table having personalized data objects, and the retrieved data retrieved from the first database table includes a user identification, a budget value set for the user, and a time period for the budget-value, and the retrieved data retrieved from the second database table includes a user identification, cumulative amount spent by the user, and a spending-date, and setting the cumulative amount spent in the second database table to an initial value, if a time period of a current date does not correspond to a time period of the spending-date.