Intuit, Inc.

Servicenow, Inc.

Ganesh Bhat

Gang Wang

Kevin M McCluskey

David Alan Hanekamp, Jr

Paul A Parks

Ion Niciu-Chiuaru

Alex G Balazs

Steven J Atkinson

Paul Bober

Vinoth Jeba Kumar Radha Krishnan

Joshua G Tsuji

Akhil Pandey

Wensheng Mao

Jessica L Fernando

Alberto Garcia

Methods, systems and articles of manufacture for efficiently calculating an electronic tax return, such as within a tax return preparation system. A computerized tax return preparation system accesses taxpayer-specific tax data from a shared data store. The system executes a tax calculation engine configured to perform a plurality of tax calculations based on a tax calculation graph and the taxpayer-specific tax data from the shared data store. The system is configured to perform only the calculations in the tax calculation graph which are changed by new taxpayer-specific tax data received since the preceding tax calculation executed by the tax calculation engine. The system may also determine whether the new taxpayer-specific tax data does, or does not change the calculated tax return and the reason why.

Methods systems and articles of manufacture for efficiently calculating a tax return in a tax return preparation application

A program content for execution at a system that is a part of a user's internal computer network is received, wherein the program content specifies data to be logged. It is determined that a data item identified by the program content belongs to a specific type. In response to the determination that the data item belongs to the specific type, it is determined whether the data item identified by the program content meets a filter specification separate from the program content. In response to a determination that the data item meets the filter specification, a log item of the data item is automatically sent to a remote system that is not a part of the user's internal computer network.

Remote system filtered data item logging

A method may include clustering form elements into line objects and columns of a table of a structured representation by applying a trained multi-dimensional clustering model to spatial coordinates of the form elements, and assigning a table header line type to a table header line object of the line objects based on a spatial coordinate of the table header line object relative to a spatial coordinate of a topmost table data line object of the line objects, and a determination that a number of columns of the table header line object is within a threshold of a number of columns of the topmost table data line object. The topmost table data line object may be assigned a table data line type. The method may further include presenting the structured representation to a user.

Generating machine renderable representations of forms using machine learning

Computer-implemented method, tax return preparation systems and computer program products for presenting an explanation for a tax calculation or operation performed by a tax return preparation system when the system is in 'forms' mode. An electronic version of a tax authority form that has been modified by inclusion of interface elements is displayed to a user. In response to the user selecting an interface element while in forms mode, presentation of an explanation regarding a tax calculation or operation for the associated field is invoked. The user interface controller provides data in response to selection of the interface element to an explanation engine, which determines an explanation based at least in part upon the tax calculation graph. The explanation is provided to the user interface controller for presentation to the user.

System and method for indicating sections of electronic tax forms for which narrative explanations can be presented

Methods, systems and computer program products for generating and presenting an estimate of when a taxpayer can expect to receive a tax refund.

Methods systems and computer program products for estimating when taxpayer will receive tax refund

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Ganesh Bhat