Patent ID: 7548881

Claim:
A computer-aided method of generating documentary credit and related documents, including: providing at least one template for documentary credit issuance, including at least one of a documentary credit instruction, a documentary credit application or a documentary credit instrument; providing one or more templates for documentary credit-related documents, wherein the documentary credit-related documents are among a plurality of bank-required documents to draw on a corresponding documentary credit instrument; mapping fields from the documentary credit issuance template to the documentary credit-related document templates and establishing synchronization rules for electronic propagation of data among and editing of the mapped fields; electronically accepting data for at least some of the fields of the documentary credit issuance template; and applying, by a programmed computer, the synchronization rules and propagating, by programmed computer, the data to the documents needed to evidence fulfillment using the mapping, wherein the synchronization rules restrict users' ability to override the propagated data fields once a document preparation state for the agreed conditions and instructions reaches a predetermined level.