Martin A Gates

US Patent:

6411938, Jun 25, 2002

Filed:

Sep 14, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/395867

Inventors:

Martin O. Gates - Sunnyvale CA
Robert G. Sage - Menlo Park CA

Assignee:

Intuit, Inc. - Mountain View CA

International Classification:

G06F 1760

US Classification:

705 30, 705 45

Abstract:

Online client-server payroll processing is provided by a client computer executing a combined accounting and payroll software product that administers both financial accounting functions (e. g. , various expense and income accounts) and payroll functions including setup and maintenance of employee and employer payroll information, and which calculates paycheck information for selected employees, using the payroll setup information and stored tax table information. The software is used to locally print payroll checks for those employees not receiving their pay by direct deposit, and to print advice of deposit slips for this latter type of to employee. The calculated payroll information is transmitted over a communications network, such as the Internet, to a payroll computer system. The payroll computer system checks the integrity of the transmitted payroll, and effects the appropriate ACH transactions for those employee who are paid by direct deposit. The payroll computer system also makes tax payments for the employees and employer to the appropriate tax agency, and periodically files with such agencies the required tax liability and wage reports.

US Patent:

56491158, Jul 15, 1997

Filed:

Jun 2, 1994

Appl. No.:

8/252670

Inventors:

Joseph Alton Schrader - Mountain View CA
Lun-Shin Yuen - Palo Alto CA
Martin Oishi Gates - Sunnyvale CA
Robert Milton Schulman - Atherton CA

Assignee:

Intuit, Inc. - Menlo Park CA

International Classification:

G06F 3147

US Classification:

395233

Abstract:

A tracking method and apparatus for use with a computer including a processor for executing code, input/output devices for providing data, memory for storing account data and a display. In operation, a plurality of transaction images are displayed on the computer display. In response to selection of one of the transaction images, a corresponding entry sequence is executed. The execution causes a display of one or more entry fields for receiving transaction data in response to the execution of the entry sequence. The transaction data is entered in response to the entry sequence and the entry fields displayed. The transaction data entered is stored in an account store corresponding to the selected one of the transaction images. Each account has a plurality of fields for data. The entry fields presented by the entry sequence are only the ones necessary for the particular transaction as determined by the selected transaction image and the corresponding entry sequence.