Patent ID: 7593962
Filing Date: 2009-09-22
Classification: G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A communication system capable of collecting information from one or more users of the communication system, the system comprising: one or more data collection mechanisms comprising at least one computing device operated to collect at least a portion of information from a user of a communication system on behalf of a second entity, wherein the first entity comprises an entity that is different than the second entity, wherein the one or more data collection mechanisms use a script to collect the portion of information from the user, the script having one or more dynamic links in the script to automatically initiate the performance of one or more functions during the collection of information from the user, wherein the performance of the one or more functions comprises accessing an application or information source to automatically populate one or more open fields in the script when at least one other field of the script is populated with a portion of the information collected from the user; and one or more memory modules coupled to the one or more data collection mechanisms and operable to store one or more records on behalf of the second entity, each of the one or more records comprising information associated with a client of the second entity and at least one of the one or more records comprising at least a portion of the information collected from the user of the communication system, wherein the one or more records are controlled by the first entity, wherein the first entity operates to export the one or more records stored in the one or more memory modules to the second entity by communicating the one or more records through a network coupled to the one or more memory modules.