Patent ID: 7072909

Claim:
A data processing system for processing a wage assignment of a person from an initiator to an accumulator and then to a recipient, comprising: a receiving component configured to receive the wage assignment at the initiator; a dispatching component configured to dispatch the wage assignment from the initiator to the accumulator; a processing component configured to process the wage assignment at the accumulator, wherein the processing component includes: a collecting component configured to collect the wage assignment with a plurality of wage assignments from a plurality of initiators, a translating component configured to translate the collected wage assignments into files with a standard wage assignment format, the format including data in at least one data field, 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; and an implementing component configured to implement the wage assignment at the recipient.