Patents by Inventor Christine A. De Sanctis

Christine A. De Sanctis 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: 8682756
    Abstract: A method for generating a visualization. The method includes receiving, from a user a request to complete a tax form including a first field, presenting a first and second tax query corresponding to the first field, receiving a first response corresponding to the first query and a second response corresponding to the second query, and determining a first value corresponding to the first field using a decision tree corresponding to the first field, and the second response. The method also includes generating a completed tax form including the first value in the first field, generating a visualization corresponding to the first field which graphically depicts a relationship between the first value and the first response and the second response, and displaying the completed tax form and the visualization on a display device with the completed tax form depicting a relationship between the visualization and the first value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Tifford, Christine A. De Sanctis, Kenichi Mori, Qwan T. Pham