US 12,242,423 B1
Online software platform (OSP) checking domain for prior actions of delivering data to domain on behalf of primary entity, to prevent inadvertent duplication of such delivering action
Nichol A. MacDonald, Chapel Hill, NC (US); Renai Bell, Portland, OR (US); Naveen Kumar Agrawal, Bellevue, WA (US); Nandan Rao, Bangalore (IN); and Gregory T. Kavounas, Bellevue, WA (US)
Assigned to Avalara, Inc., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed by Avalara, Inc.
Filed on Jan. 3, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/403,567.
Int. Cl. G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01); G06F 16/17 (2019.01); G06F 16/174 (2019.01); G06F 16/28 (2019.01); G06F 16/953 (2019.01)
CPC G06F 16/1734 (2019.01) [G06F 9/542 (2013.01); G06F 16/1748 (2019.01); G06F 16/288 (2019.01); G06F 16/953 (2019.01)] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer system, including at least:
one or more processors; and
a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, are designed to result in operations including at least:
receiving, by the computer system from a remote device via a communications network, initial instructions on behalf of a primary entity, the computer system hosted by an Online Software Platform (OSP);
opening, by the computer system and responsive to the initial instructions, in the OSP a client online account for the primary entity;
inputting, by the computer system, domain-identifying information;
identifying, by the computer system and from the domain-identifying information, a domain from a plurality of domains, the domain having a domain online space in an OSP, the primary entity having a client domain account in the domain online space, the primary entity having had relationship instances with secondary entities associated with the domain;
inputting, by the computer system, client account credentials for the client domain account;
accessing, by the computer system using the client account credentials and via a communications network, the client domain account in the domain online space;
causing, by the computer system, a delivery inquiry to be transmitted to the domain online space in a context of the accessed client domain account, the delivery inquiry inquiring as to whether or not a certain data report has already been delivered to the domain on behalf of the primary entity, the certain data report relating to the relationship instances of the primary entity with those of the secondary entities that are associated with the domain;
inputting, by the computer system and responsive to the delivery inquiry, a delivery inquiry result;
determining, by the computer system, whether an aspect of the delivery inquiry result indicates that the certain data report has or has not already been delivered to the domain; and
causing, by the computer system and responsive to determining that an aspect of the delivery inquiry result indicates that the certain data report has already been delivered to the domain, an alerting message to be transmitted to an agent of the primary entity, the alerting message reporting on the delivery inquiry result,
else causing, by the computer system and responsive to determining that the delivery inquiry result indicates that the certain data report has not already been delivered to the domain:
a new data report to be inputted, and
the new data report to become delivered via a communications network to the domain online space in the context of the client domain account.