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 Calculating Royalties
Tracking Payments
System Architecture
Client Overview
Data Input
Process
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PRTS Client is a Windows application that works under Windows 95, 98, Windows NT 4.0,
Windows 2000 and is supposed to work under further releases of Microsoft 32-bit Windows
operating systems. Functionally, PRTS Client consists of three major modules: PRTS Viewer,
PRTS Manager and PRTS Administrator.
| PRTS Viewer |
The main purpose of Viewer module is to serve personnel assigned to
answer questions originating from information providers, such as What products our
publication X presents on?, What royalty payments were made for this publication being on
this product for the period from … to …?, For this publication in general for the period
from … to …?, For all our publications we gave you rights on for the period from … to …?.
This is a totally "read-only" module.
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| PRTS Manager |
PRTS Manager is the main module of PRTS Client. Its functionality
allows controlling almost every aspect of Royalty process including acquiring data
from external sources, data manipulation, data diagnostics, royalty payments
calculator runs, etc. except security management.
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| PRTS Administrator |
PRTS Administrator module bears all the functionality of PRTS
Manager module and provides additional tools for managing PRTS security and
connection information. PRTS Security Model includes two tiers: application and
database. The PRTS Administrator controls both aspects of Security Model:
application users information (via User Manager module) and server connection
information (via Internal Login module).
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