Information model for property records management
AssigneeManatron, Inc.
InventorsJennings Wayne Moore, Larry Joseph Deniston, Terry Lee Merkle, Douglas Alan Bennett, Robert James Golisek
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Abstract
An information model for a party and property records management system includes a legal party role object for maintaining relationships between objects, such as legal party objects and revenue-object objects, within the information model. A legal party object could have several associated objects, such as an identification number object or a legal party communication object.
Claims29
A computer-readable storage medium tangibly embodying an information model for managing party and property information from multiple data sources in a single data structure, the information model comprising:
- a plurality of legal party objects including first and second legal party objects to represent first and second legal entities, respectively, the first and second legal entities being at least one of an individual, an organization and a public agency;
- a plurality of revenue-object objects including a revenue-object object representing a taxable item, wherein the first and second legal entities have a tax responsibility with respect to the taxable item;
- a plurality of legal party role objects including first and second legal party role objects to designate entity role types and to connect the first and second legal party objects respectively to the revenue-object object, whereby each of the first and second legal party role objects maintains a relationship between the first and second legal party objects and the revenue-object object;
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- a plurality of objects associated with the first legal party object, wherein one of the first plurality of associated objects is a legal party communication object to represent a manner of contacting the first legal entity, the legal party communication object having a plurality of associated communication objects, wherein the legal party communication object is inheritable by an alternate communication object.
A computer-readable storage medium tangibly embodying an information model for managing party and property information from multiple data sources in a single data structure, the information model comprising:
- a plurality of legal party objects including first and second legal party objects to represent first and second legal entities, respectively, the first and second legal entities being at least one of an individual, an organization and a public agency;
- a plurality of revenue-object objects to represent a plurality of taxable items, wherein the first and second legal entities have a tax responsibility with respect to at least one of the plurality of taxable items represented by at least one of the plurality of revenue-object objects;
- a plurality of legal party role objects including first and second legal party role objects to designate entity role types and to connect the first and second legal party objects respectively to the at least one of the plurality of revenue-object objects, whereby each of the first and second legal party role objects maintains a relationship between the first and second legal party objects and the at least one of the plurality of revenue-object objects;
- a plurality of objects associated with one of the plurality of revenue-object objects including a tax authority group role object;
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- a plurality of objects associated with the tax authority group role object, wherein one of the plurality of objects is a tax authority group object to represent at least one tax authority that levies a tax against a taxable item, and wherein another of the plurality of objects associated with the tax authority group role object is a tax authority group history object to represent a change to the at least one tax authority.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.