Method and article of manufacture for component based task handling during claim processing

A computer program embodied on a computer readable medium for creating a component based architecture capable of handling tasks, comprising:

• a user interface form code segment adapted for collecting data from a user input;
• a business object code segment adapted for caching data;
• an adapter code segment adapted for transmitting data to a server;
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• a controller component code segment adapted for handling events generated by the user interacting with the user interface code segment, providing validation within a logic unit of work, containing logic to interact with the business component, creating one or more business objects, interacting with the adapter component to add, retrieve, modify, or delete business objects, and providing dirty flag processing to notify a user of change processing;
• wherein the computer program is adapted for allowing a user to define tasks that achieve a goal upon completion, allowing the user to input rules which dictate which of the tasks should be selected based on predetermined events, receiving at least one event, and outputting the task which is selected based on the received event in accordance with the rules.

A computer program embodied on a computer readable medium for creating a component based architecture for allowing communication between a plurality of clients and a server in order to handle tasks, comprising:

• one or more client components included with each client, each client component of each client adapted for communicating and manipulating data with a first data type, wherein the client component is adapted for allowing a user to define tasks that achieve a goal upon completion, allowing the user to input rules which dictate which of the tasks should be selected based on predetermined events, receiving at least one event, and outputting the task which is selected based on the received event in accordance with the rules;
• one or more server components adapted for communicating and manipulating data with a second data type;
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• one or more adapter components included with each client for translating data from the one or more client components to the second data type when communicating data from the client to the server and further translating data from the one or more server components to the first data type when communicating data from the server to the client.