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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2014
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);
Luis F. Cabrera, Bellevue, WA (US);
Alex G. Balazs, San Diego, CA (US);
Henry Tayloe Stansbury, Saratoga, CA (US);
INTUIT INC., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods and articles of manufacture for determining impact chains from a calculation graph for calculating taxes. The system includes a computing device, a data store in communication with the computing device and a tax preparation software application executable by the computing device. The tax preparation software application has a tax calculation engine, a tax calculation graph, and an impact chain engine. The tax calculation engine is configured to perform a plurality of tax calculation operations based on a tax calculation graph. The impact chain engine is configured to analyze the tax calculation graph and determine an impact chain for each of a plurality of nodes in the graph, wherein an impact chain for a respective node consists of one of (a) each of the other nodes which are affected by the respective node, or (b) each of the other nodes which affect the respective node.