Appeal No. 2005-1805
Application 09/728,705
Invention
Appellant’s invention relates to methods and systems for tracking and balancing accounts
receivable data. Appellant’s specification at page 7, paragraph [0022].
Claim 1 is representative of the claimed invention and is reproduced as follows:
1. A method of automatically tracking and balancing account receivable data
comprising:
submitting a billing data file to a processing entity, said billing data file
comprising customer account records representing accounts receivable for a given
carrier;
determining each of said customer account records as one of at least two
tracking data sets based on pre-defined criteria;
computing a total amount of accounts receivable for said customer account
records located in each tracking data set related to said given carrier;
generating a total amount of processed accounts receivable related to said
given carrier by adding the computed total amounts of accounts receivable of the
at least two tracking data sets;
comparing a total amount of pre-processed accounts receivable related to
said given carrier to the total amount of processed accounts receivable related to
said given carrier, the total amount of pre-processed accounts receivable being the
total amount of the accounts receivable inputted to the processing entity by said
carrier;
creating a discrepancy report comprising said carrier if the total amount of
pre-processed accounts receivable does not equal the total amount of processed
accounts receivables [sic]; and
creating a settlement report for said carrier if the total amount of pre-
processed accounts receivable equals the total amount of processed accounts
receivable.
References
The references relied on by the Examiner are as follows:
Crooks et al. (Crooks) 5,943,656 August 24, 1999
Northington et al. (Northington) 6,128,602 October 3, 2000
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