US 5,361,393 A · Method for improving interactive-screen uploading of accounting data

Abstract

Method for improving the process of uploading data from a terminal computer to a host computer with interactive, data receiving screens. The method features use of spreadsheet software to format data to be uploaded in a data source file. The data to be uploaded is laid out in single-row, multi-column form within the spreadsheet so that vivid, hard copy journals of the data may be created that facilitate examination of the data and memorializes its existence. Additionally, the data layout may be transformed and provided with additional information using the spreadsheet to create the data source file having a single-column, multi-row format suitable to facilitate entry of the data to the interactive screens for uploading. Additionally, the method features use of a management program that includes instruction for directing and coordinating the feeding of the data contained the source file to an interface program that enters the data in the predetermined fields of the interactive screens.

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Dependent claims

In a method for uploading data from a terminal computer to a host computer with the use of one or more interactive screens supported at the terminal computer by the host computer, the improvement comprising:

a. generating source file means including data elements to be uploaded from the terminal computer to the host computer;
b. formatting the source file means such that the data elements are arranged on individual file lines;
c. providing uploading program means including instructions for entering data representing prescribed keystrokes to predetermined fields of the interactive screens, the program means further including instructions for reading the source file means so that predetermined source file data elements may be entered to predetermined fields of the interactive screens, the uploading means being operable to facilitate the uploading of data elements from the terminal computer to the host computer.

In a method for uploading accounting data from a terminal computer to a host computer with the use of one or more interactive screens supported at the terminal computer by the host computer on which an accounting program is running, the improvement comprising:

a. generating source file means including data elements that constitute accounting records to be uploaded from the terminal computer to the host computer;
b. formatting the source file means with the use of spreadsheet program means such that the accounting record data elements are arranged on individual file lines;
c. providing uploading program means including a management program means and a interface program means, the uploading program means including instructions for entering data representing prescribed keystrokes to predetermined fields of the interactive screens, the program means further including instructions for reading the source file means so that predetermined source file data elements may be entered to predetermined fields of the interactive screens, the uploading means being operable to facilitate the uploading of data elements from the terminal computer to the host computer.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Method for improving interactive-screen uploading of accounting data

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