Patent ID: 7877423

Claim:
A data processor at an initiator, the data processor comprising: a central processing unit; a receiving component configured to receive a wage assignment; an inputting component configured to input the wage assignment into a database; and a transmitting component configured to transmit the wage assignment to an accumulator, the accumulator comprising: a collecting component configured to collect the wage assignment with a plurality of wage assignments from a plurality of initiators, an identifying component configured to identify a set of translating rules, a translating component configured to translate the collected wage assignments into files with a standard wage assignment format according to the set of translating rules, the format including data in at least one data field, the translating component including an EDI-using component configured to use electronic data interchange (EDI) utilizing a 521 record set as the standard wage assignment format, a grouping component configured to group the standard wage assignment format files into batch files based on the data stored in at least one data field of the standard wage assignment format, and a delivering component configured to deliver a batch file containing the wage assignment to one of a plurality of recipients.