METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERSONALIZING AND FACILITATING A TAX RETURN PREPARATION INTERVIEW IN A TAX RETURN PREPARATION SYSTEM BY USING A MULTI-SECTIONAL VIEW OF INTERVIEW CONTENT TO PROGRESS A USER THROUGH THE TAX RETURN PREPARATION INTERVIEW
Granted: January 5, 2017
Application Number:
20170004585
A method and system personalizes and facilitates an electronic tax return preparation interview in a tax return preparation system, using a multi-sectional view of interview content, according to one embodiment. The method and system displays first user income information at least partially based on user data, and displays characteristics for the first user income information in a first section of a user interface to indicate to the user which of the first user income information has…
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TESTING CLOUD BASED APPLICATIONS IN A PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT USING FABRICATED USER DATA
Granted: December 22, 2016
Application Number:
20160371178
An application is implemented in the production environment in which the application will be used. Fabricated user data associated with the application implemented in the production environment is then generated and provided to the application as implemented in the production environment. The fabricated user data is then processed by the application in the production environment to transform the fabricated user data into fabricated user results data. In one embodiment, the fabricated…
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING USERS WHO BENEFIT FROM FILING ITEMIZED DEDUCTIONS TO REDUCE AN AVERAGE TIME CONSUMED FOR USERS PREPARING TAX RETURNS WITH A TAX RETURN PREPARATION SYSTEM
Granted: December 1, 2016
Application Number:
20160350870
A method and system identifies users who benefit from filing itemized deductions over standardized deductions to reduce an average time consumed for users preparing tax returns with a tax return preparation system, according to one embodiment. The method and system receives user data that is associated with a user, and applies the user data to a predictive model to cause the predictive model to determine a likelihood that the user will decrease his/her taxable income by filing an…
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY MANAGING SECURE COMMUNICATIONS AND DISTRIBUTION OF SECRETS IN MULTIPLE COMMUNICATIONS JURISDICTION ZONES
Granted: November 17, 2016
Application Number:
20160337406
Communications and security policy data for two or more zones is obtained that includes data indicating allowed protocols for the respective communications jurisdiction zones. Request data indicating a desired exchange of data between a secrets data source in a first zone and a requesting resource in a second zone is received/obtained. The first zone policy data and the second zone policy data is automatically obtained and analyzed to determine an allowed type of communications security…
VIDEO-VOICE PREPARATION OF ELECTRONIC TAX RETURN SUMMARY
Granted: November 10, 2016
Application Number:
20160328806
Methods, systems and computer program products for processing video of tax documents and associated verbal input provided by a user and populating at least a portion of an electronic tax return with processing results. A video/voice processor associated with a tax return preparation application executed by a computing apparatus such as mobile communication device receives a video of a tax document and voice data. The document type is determined using video and/or voice data. Voice to…
VIDEO-VOICE PREPARATION OF ELECTRONIC TAX RETURN SUMMARY
Granted: November 10, 2016
Application Number:
20160328805
Methods, systems and computer program products for processing video of tax documents and associated verbal input provided by a user and populating at least a portion of an electronic tax return with processing results. A video/voice processor associated with a tax return preparation application executed by a computing apparatus such as mobile communication device receives a video of a tax document and voice data. The document type is determined using video and/or voice data. Voice to…
VIDEO-VOICE PREPARATION OF ELECTRONIC TAX RETURN SUMMARY
Granted: November 10, 2016
Application Number:
20160328804
Methods, systems and computer program products for processing video of tax documents and associated verbal input provided by a user and populating at least a portion of an electronic tax return with processing results. A video/voice processor associated with a tax return preparation application executed by a computing apparatus such as mobile communication device receives a video of a tax document and voice data. The document type is determined using video and/or voice data. Voice to…
RENDERING GRAPHICAL ASSETS NATIVELY ON MULTIPLE SCREENS OF ELECTRONIC DEVICES
Granted: November 3, 2016
Application Number:
20160322029
The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates execution of an application on an electronic device. During operation, the system obtains a font file comprising a set of scalable representations of graphical assets used in the application. Next, the system obtains a layout of a user interface of the application. The system then obtains, from the layout, a mapping of a user-interface element in the user interface to a scalable representation of a graphical asset in the font…
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING AN ENCRYPTION PROXY
Granted: September 22, 2016
Application Number:
20160275296
An encryption proxy is instantiated in a first computing environment and includes encryption proxy authentication data for identifying itself to a secrets distribution management system in a second computing environment as a trusted virtual asset to receive and cache encryption key data in a secure encryption key cache outside the second computing environment. The encryption proxy requests one or more encryption keys to be cached and is then provided encryption key data representing the…
METHODS SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR APPLYING GENERATED RULES FOR PERSONALIZED INTERVIEW EXPERIENCE
Granted: September 22, 2016
Application Number:
20160275627
Methods, systems and computer program products for generating decision and meta rules used for determining which questions to present to a tax preparation application user and determine whether a tax situation or topic is applicable to the user. Decision and meta rule sets are generated for tax topics such that as inputs or answers to questions are received and no generated decision rule can be executed, at least one generated meta rule is execute to invalidate one or more generated…
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATING THREAT MODEL GENERATION AND PATTERN IDENTIFICATION
Granted: August 25, 2016
Application Number:
20160248798
A method and system for automating threat model generation and pattern identification for an application includes identifying components of an application, and receiving security information that identifies whether security measures were implemented within the application to secure the application against security threats. The method further receives an identification of external events, and receiving first patterns from one or more first virtual assets. A database is populated with the…
SYSTEM AND METHOD TO CONNECT A USER OF A PRODUCT TO CONTACTS OF THE USER WHO ARE PROMOTERS
Granted: August 25, 2016
Application Number:
20160247191
A method for connecting users of a software application, including registering a first version of the software application. The method further includes transmitting, to a matching server, a contact list including personally identifiable information of users of the software application. The method further includes receiving, from the matching server, a promoter contact selected, according to a promotion criterion, from the users of the software application in the contact list. The method…
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A SECURE SECRETS PROXY AND DISTRIBUTING SECRETS
Granted: August 11, 2016
Application Number:
20160234015
A secure secrets proxy is instantiated in a first computing environment and includes secure secrets proxy authentication data for identifying itself to a secrets distribution management system in a second computing environment as a trusted virtual asset to receive and cache secrets data in a secure secrets cache outside the second computing environment. A virtual asset requests one or more secrets, triggering a process to authenticate the requesting virtual asset, gathering authorized…
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING SOURCES OF TAX-RELATED INFORMATION TO FACILITATE TAX RETURN PREPARATION
Granted: July 28, 2016
Application Number:
20160217534
A method and system gathers user tax data for a user, from one or more sources of tax information, to prepare the user's tax return within a tax return preparation system, in one embodiment. The method and system populate a database with relationships between existing user metadata and one or more sources of tax information, in one embodiment. The method and system analyze new user metadata for the user to identify which of the one or more sources of tax information are relevant to the…
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USE OF ALTERNATING LEAST SQUARES TO IDENTIFY COMMON PROFILES OF TAX FILERS AND TAILOR THE TAX PREPARATION PROCESS BASED ON THE PROFILE FOR THE INDIVIDUAL TAX FILER
Granted: July 28, 2016
Application Number:
20160217533
A method and system for providing a tax return preparation system with an analytics modules includes matching a user to one or more common user profiles. The analytics module generates a plurality of common profiles by applying an alternating least squares algorithm to a large matrix including data from a large number of previously prepared tax returns. The analytics module matches the user to one or more of the common profiles by comparing data received from the user with the common…
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRO-ACTIVE DETECTION AND CORRECTION OF LOW QUALITY QUESTIONS IN A QUESTION AND ANSWER BASED CUSTOMER SUPPORT SYSTEM
Granted: July 28, 2016
Application Number:
20160217472
User satisfaction with answers that may be provided through a question and answer based customer support system is predicted by pre-submission analysis of the attributes of the question itself before the answer is generated. Questions being entered into the question and answer based customer support system that are not likely to satisfy either an asking user submitting a question, or subsequent searching users accessing the resulting question and answer pair, are labeled improperly…
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VIRTUAL ASSET ASSISTED EXTRUSION AND INTRUSION DETECTION AND THREAT SCORING IN A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT
Granted: July 7, 2016
Application Number:
20160197951
An analysis trigger monitoring system is provided in one or more virtual assets. One or more analysis trigger parameters, including security threat patterns, are defined and analysis trigger data is generated. The one or more analysis trigger monitoring systems are used to monitor at least a portion of the message traffic sent to, or sent from, the one or more virtual assets to detect any message including one or more of the one or more analysis trigger parameters. Any detected message…
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING PERMISSIONS MANAGEMENT
Granted: June 23, 2016
Application Number:
20160182527
Reference architecture pattern role data representing reference architecture pattern roles to be associated with entities taking part in the development, and/or deployment, and/or operation of an application is generated. Reference architecture pattern tier data representing reference architecture pattern tiers used to create, and/or deploy, and/or operate an application using the reference architecture pattern is generated. For each reference architecture pattern role at least one…
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING INTERCHANGEABLE ANALYTICS MODULES USED TO PROVIDE CUSTOMIZED TAX RETURN PREPARATION INTERVIEWS
Granted: June 23, 2016
Application Number:
20160180470
A method and system evaluates analytics modules to improve a personalization of tax questions delivered to a user in a tax return preparation system, according to one embodiment. The method and system retrieves historical tax return data and selects one or more interchangeable analytics modules for evaluation with the historical tax return data, according to one embodiment. The method and system applies the historical tax return data to the one or more analytics modules that are selected…
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEPLOYING PREDICTIVE MODELS
Granted: June 16, 2016
Application Number:
20160171379
A system and method for deploying predictive models is presented which personalizes application program functionality and user interface presentation to the consumer user. That personalization takes place within a decision engine that decouples decision models from application processes so that rapid deployment may take place. When a consumer user specific decision is required, the application program interacts with the decision model to trigger a consumer-user appropriate decision…
