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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2018
Intuit Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Gang Wang, San Diego, CA (US);
Kevin M. McCluskey, Carlsbad, CA (US);
David A. Hanekamp, Jr., Carlsbad, CA (US);
Daniel P. Dunbar, Encinitas, CA (US);
Steven J. Atkinson, San Diego, CA (US);
Michael A. Artamonov, San Diego, CA (US);
Peter Lubczynski, San Diego, CA (US);
Matthew A. Brincho, San Diego, CA (US);
Kyle J. Ryan, San Diego, CA (US);
INTUIT INC., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for generating explanations for a tax calculation or operation performed by tax preparation software is disclosed. A computing device executes a tax calculation engine in connection with the tax preparation software and operates on a tax calculation graph to perform a tax calculation. The tax calculation graph semantically describes data dependent tax operations comprising functional nodes connected to input nodes by one of a plurality of functions, wherein each tax operation is associated with one or more explanations. An explanation engine is executed to generate a narrative explanation from the one or more explanations associated with one of the tax operations and is presented to the user on the computing device.