1. A method of creating an invoice, comprising:
creating a preliminary invoice, the invoice including individual tasks for activities accomplished;
submitting the preliminary invoice to an automated rules engine;
searching the preliminary invoice for at least one of keywords, phrases, and task billing codes that define possible violations of a company’s litigation billing guidelines;
highlighting any invoice task that contains identified keywords that would define possible violations of the company’s litigation billing guidelines;
querying a user to accept changes to an invoice task based upon the identified at least one of the keywords, the phrases and the task billing codes; and
modifying the preliminary invoice into the finalized invoice after the accepted changes have been conducted after the querying of the user.
2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:
printing the finalized invoice.
3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the automated rules engine is on a mainframe computer.
4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the automated rules engine is on a personal computer.
5. A method of creating an invoice, comprising:
at least one of uploading and creating a preliminary invoice, the invoice including individual tasks for activities accomplished;
submitting the preliminary invoice to an automated rules engine;
searching the preliminary invoice for missing tasks as defined by the individual tasks for activities accomplished;
querying a user to add a task based upon the search of the preliminary invoice for the missing tasks; and
modifying the preliminary invoice into the finalized invoice after the adding the task based upon the search of the preliminary invoice for the missing tasks.
6. The method according to claim 5, further comprising:
printing the finalized invoice.
7. The method according to claim 5, wherein the automated rules engine is on a mainframe computer.
8. The method according to claim 5, wherein the automated rules engine is on a personal computer.
9. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:
querying a user to define rules for the automated rules engine prior to the submitting the preliminary invoice to an automated rules engine.
10. The method according to claim 5, further comprising:
querying a user to define rules for the automated rules engine prior to the submitting the preliminary invoice to an automated rules engine.
11. The method according to claim 1, wherein the querying the user to accept changes to an invoice task based upon the identified keywords.
12. The method according to claim 1, wherein the creating the preliminary invoice, the invoice including individual tasks for activities accomplished is on a computer using the automated rules engine.
13. The method according to claim 1, wherein the creating the preliminary invoice, the invoice including individual tasks for activities accomplished is not on a computer using the automated rules engine.
14. The method according to claim 5, wherein the creating the preliminary invoice, the invoice including individual tasks for activities accomplished is on a computer using the automated rules engine.
15. The method according to claim 5, wherein the creating the preliminary invoice, the invoice including individual tasks for activities accomplished is not on a computer using the automated rules engine.
16. A program storage device readable by machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform method steps for creating a finalized invoice, comprising:
creating a preliminary invoice, the invoice including individual tasks for activities accomplished;
submitting the preliminary invoice to an automated rules engine;
searching the preliminary invoice for keywords that define lower value activities;
highlighting any invoice task that contains identified keywords that would define lower value activities;
querying a user to accept changes to an invoice task based upon the identified keywords; and
modifying the preliminary invoice into the finalized invoice after the accepted changes have been conducted after the querying of the user.
17. A program storage device readable by machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform method steps for creating a finalized invoice, comprising:
creating a preliminary invoice, the invoice including individual tasks for activities accomplished;
submitting the preliminary invoice to an automated rules engine;
searching the preliminary invoice for missing tasks as defined by the individual tasks for activities accomplished;
querying a user to add a task based upon the search of the preliminary invoice for the missing tasks; and
modifying the preliminary invoice into the finalized invoice after the adding the task based upon the search of the preliminary invoice for the missing tasks.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A method of producing a tobacco product, said method comprising:
a) providing cured plant material from a tobacco plant having an endogenous nucleic acid comprising a mutation in the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 4, wherein said mutation results in reduced expression of the endogenous nucleic acid; and
b) manufacturing a tobacco product using said cured plant material.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein said cured plant material is cured leaf.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein said tobacco product is a smokeless tobacco product.
4. The method of claim 2, wherein said tobacco product is a cigarette.
5. The method of claim 2, wherein said tobacco product is a cigar.
6. The method of claim 2, wherein said mutation is selected from the group consisting of a point mutation, a deletion, an insertion, a duplication and an inversion.
7. The method of claim 6, wherein said mutation is a point mutation.
8. The method of claim 6, wherein said mutation is a deletion.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein said mutation is in nucleotides 1 to 2009 of SEQ ID NO: 4.
10. The method of claim 1, wherein said mutation is in nucleotides 1241 to 2009 of SEQ ID NO: 4.
11. The method of claim 1, wherein said mutation is in nucleotides 2010 to 2949 of SEQ ID NO: 4.
12. The method of claim 1, wherein said mutation is in nucleotides 2950 to 3946 of SEQ ID NO: 4.
13. The method of claim 1, wherein said mutation is in nucleotides 3947 to 4562 of SEQ ID NO: 4.
14. The method of claim 1, wherein said mutation is in nucleotides 4563 to 6347 of SEQ ID NO: 4.
15. The method of claim 1, wherein said mutation is in nucleotides 4731 to 6347 of SEQ ID NO: 4.
16. A tobacco product comprising cured plant material from a tobacco plant having an endogenous nucleic acid comprising a mutation in the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 4, wherein said mutation results in reduced expression of the endogenous nucleic acid.
17. The tobacco product of claim 16, wherein said plant material is cured leaf.
18. The tobacco product of claim 17, wherein said mutation is selected from the group consisting of a point mutation, a deletion, an insertion, a duplication and an inversion.
19. The tobacco product of claim 18, wherein said mutation is a point mutation.
20. The tobacco product of claim 18, wherein said mutation is a deletion.
21. The tobacco product of claim 17, wherein said tobacco product is a chewing tobacco.
22. The tobacco product of claim 17, wherein said tobacco product is a moist or dry snuff.
23. The tobacco product of claim 17, wherein said tobacco product is a cigarette.
24. The tobacco product of claim 17, wherein said tobacco product is a cigarillo.
25. The tobacco product of claim 17, wherein said tobacco product is a cigar.
26. The product of claim 16, wherein said mutation is in nucleotides 1 to 2009 of SEQ ID NO: 4.
27. The product of claim 16, wherein said mutation is in nucleotides 1241 to 2009 of SEQ ID NO: 4.
28. The product of claim 16, wherein said mutation is in nucleotides 2010 to 2949 of SEQ ID NO: 4.
29. The product of claim 16, wherein said mutation is in nucleotides 2950 to 3946 of SEQ ID NO: 4.
30. The product of claim 16, wherein said mutation is in nucleotides 3947 to 4562 of SEQ ID NO: 4.
31. The product of claim 16, wherein said mutation is in nucleotides 4563 to 6347 of SEQ ID NO: 4.
32. The product of claim 16, wherein said mutation is in nucleotides 4731 to 6347 of SEQ ID NO: 4.