Patents by Inventor Teresa Backes

Teresa Backes has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7778892
    Abstract: A system has been invented that enables recording and proposing bonus depreciations, with a variety of advantageous features. The system enables a computing device to receive user-defined bonus depreciations, receive records of assets, and propose values for the bonus depreciations as applied to the assets. Bonus depreciations may be recorded and associated with several different classifications of assets, enabling the right bonus depreciations to be proposed for the right assets as they are recorded. This may include applying several bonus depreciations to the same assets while maximizing bonus depreciations within statutory requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Harish Mukhami, Kimberly A. Nelson, Teresa A. Backes
  • Publication number: 20080010176
    Abstract: A system has been invented that enables recording and proposing bonus depreciations, with a variety of advantageous features. The system enables a computing device to receive user-defined bonus depreciations, receive records of assets, and propose values for the bonus depreciations as applied to the assets. Bonus depreciations may be recorded and associated with several different classifications of assets, enabling the right bonus depreciations to be proposed for the right assets as they are recorded. This may include applying several bonus depreciations to the same assets while maximizing bonus depreciations within statutory requirements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2006
    Publication date: January 10, 2008
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Harish Mukhami, Kimberly A. Nelson, Teresa A. Backes
  • Publication number: 20060224475
    Abstract: A method and system for defining data in a transaction for an accounting system. A data structure includes a transaction category entity defining an area in a business where transactions occur. The data structure also includes a transaction type entity having an association with the transaction category entity and defining a kind of transaction. In addition, the data structure includes a transaction profile entity having an association with the transaction type entity and having properties which define rules for handling the transaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2005
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Darin Kramer, Eric Iverson, Teresa Backes