Intuit, Inc.

Justin M Glaeser

Aaron Elias Berhanu

Ummulkiram Mohammed Dahodwala

Simon Levy

Michael I Mills

Kumiko T Toft

Aline Baeck

Sharla Kay Fullerton

Noah D Shaffer

Methods are provided for creating a composite program module within a computing ecosystem. The ecosystem comprises physical and/or virtual computing resources of a company, department or other organization. When a user discovers a grouping of modules that is useful to him, the ecosystem or his workspace allows him to create a composite module that comprises the group of modules. He can then access their combined functionality by activating just the composite module, in which case all the modules are automatically opened, without having to activate each one individually. Further, the ecosystem may suggest complementary program modules to a user based on his pattern of activity with one or more other modules. A composite program module may be created to include a suggested complementary module, or just modules discovered independently by the user.

Creating a composite program module in a computing ecosystem

A method and system for providing real-time financial goal monitoring and analysis whereby a given user defines budgetary and/or financial goals for one or more financial categories for a given period of time. A merchant/category database is created that associates one or more merchants with potential financial categories and when the given user accesses a given user interface of a website associated with a given merchant, Uniform Resource Locator (URL) data for the website being accessed is obtained and used to identify the given merchant associated with the given website. The merchant/category database is then searched to find potential financial categories associated with the given merchant and the financial budget/goal data indicating the given user's budgetary and/or financial goals for the financial categories associated with the given merchant is then obtained along with current financial data indicating the given user's actual spending in each of the potential financial categories associated with the given merchant for the given period of time. Remaining balance data for the potential financial categories associated with the given merchant for the given period of time is then generated and displayed to the user in the same display displaying the user interface of the given merchant website.

Method and system for providing real-time financial goal monitoring and analysis

A method and system for displaying to a user the effect of a hypothetical purchase on the user's budgetary goals whereby a given product and/or service being considered for purchase and/or the cost of the given product and/or service being considered is identified and a product/service category database is searched to find a financial category associated with the given product and/or service. Financial budget/goal data indicating the given user's one or more budgetary and/or financial goals for a financial category associated with the given product and/or service for the given period of time, the current financial data indicating the given user's actual spending in the financial category associated with the given product and/or service for the given period of time, and the data indicating the cost of the given product and/or service being considered for purchase is analyzed to present the user data indicating the hypothetical remaining balance for the financial category associated with the given product and/or service for the given period of time that would result if the given product and/or service were actually purchased.

Method and system for informing a user of the effect of a hypothetical purchase on the user's finances at the point of sale

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Los Altos, CA, United States of America

Justin M Glaeser