Intuit Inc.
Computer-implemented methods, systems and articles of manufacture for processing sensitive electronic tax return data

Abstract:

Computer-implemented methods, computerized systems and articles of manufacture for processing sensitive electronic tax return data. A tax logic agent reads runtime data of the electronic tax return from a shared data store and identifies logic computations to be performed given a directed completion graph and runtime data. Certain logic computations involve sensitive runtime data (name, social security number, other personal identification data, and private data such as address, telephone number and account numbers), are indicated as such, and may be processed differently than other logic computations involving runtime data not indicated to be sensitive data. Logic computations involving sensitive data may be performed locally, whereas logic computations not involving sensitive data may be performed by a remote computing resource, in which case computation results are merged and used to generate a non-binding suggestion of a topic or question to present to the user via the user interface controller.