Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Insurance
Patent
1997-04-15
2000-01-11
MacDonald, Allan R.
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Insurance
705 2, G06F 1760
Patent
active
06014632&
ABSTRACT:
A method for using a digital electrical apparatus to electrically process signals in generating output for insurance documentation, the method including the steps of: in a digital electrical computer apparatus comprising a digital computer having a processor, the processor electrically connected to a memory device for storing and retrieving operations including machine-readable signals in the memory device, to an input device for receiving input data and converting the input data into input electrical data, to a visual display unit for converting output electrical data into output having a visual presentation, to a printer for converting the output electrical data into printed documentation, wherein the processor is programmed to control the apparatus to receive the input data and to produce the output data by steps including: defining a plurality of patient categories; and for each of the categories, determining a periodic duration-specific insurance benefit amount for long-term care patients; the method further including the step of inserting the periodic duration-specific insurance benefit amounts in a long-term care insurance policy.
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Gamble Michael R.
Wilson Jerry D.
Crecca Michele Stuckey
Financial Growth Resources, Inc.
MacDonald Allan R.
Trzyna, Esq. Peter K.
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