Patent ID: 7519570

Claim:
A method for localizing an electronic registration system provided through a generic registration framework, the registration system having register, instrument and geographic entities within a database in a computer memory, the method comprising: defining the register, instrument and geographic entities to be stored in the database: (i) wherein the register entity is configured to store registration data relating to an object, the instrument entity is configured to store registration data relating to an interest in or an action taken with respect to the object, the geographic entity is configured to store registration data relating to a geographic attribute of an entity or a geographic attribute of an attribute of an entity, and (ii) wherein the register, instrument and geographic entities are defined through a capturing interface, and further wherein the capturing interface includes a persistence layer for permitting changes to be made to the database dynamically; defining data fields in the database for the register, instrument and geographic entities, wherein the data fields are defined or expressed in XML; defining input parameters to accept input information through forms; selecting an order of registration operations to be performed on the input information; defining rules for processing the input information to be applied against an attribute of any one of the register, instrument and geographic entities; and storing, as the localized electronic registration system, the defined register, instrument, geographic entities, and input parameters, and the selected order of registration operations and defined rules for processing the input information.