Identifying business type using public information

US10529013B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Intuit Inc. · US

Inventors

• Jayanth Saimani · Kanchinakote, IN
• Anshu Verma · Bengaluru, IN

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 31, 2013
• Grant date: Jan 7, 2020
• Expiry date: Jan 12, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q40/02
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method for configuring a business management application (BMA) for managing financial aspects of a business entity. The method includes obtaining a business name of an unconfigured user of the BMA, wherein the unconfigured user is associated with the business entity, retrieving, by a computer processor, a search result from an Internet search engine using the business name as a search keyword, analyzing, by the computer processor, the search result to identify a business type of the unconfigured user, and generating, by the computer processor, a configuration setting of the BMA based on the business type, wherein the configuration setting is used by the BMA to generate a customized result specific to the business type.