Patent ID: 7925555
Filing Date: 2011-04-12
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for providing an online single master system of record, said method comprising: storing a set of images in a set of image archives, the set of image archives including at least a first image archive and a second image archive, the set of images including a first image and a second image, the first image archive storing the first image digitally, the second image archive storing the second image on microfilm, the first image archive and the second image archive being geographically distributed; storing, at a digital repository, a master system of record for a financial institution, the master system of record containing records, the records recording financial transactions in a set of financial transactions, each of the financial transactions occurring during a predetermined period of time, the financial transactions including a first transaction, a second transaction, and a third transaction, the records including a first record, a second record, and a third record, the first record recording the first transaction, the second record recording the second transaction, the third record recording the third transaction, receiving, at a computing apparatus associated with the financial institution, a search request from a client device before an end of the current day, the client device associated with a customer of the financial institution, the client device and the computing apparatus communicating using HTTP and TCP/IP as a transport protocol for the search request, the search request specifying a first set of information, the first set of information identifying the first transaction and the second transaction; in response to receiving the search request, using, by the computing apparatus, the first set of information to identify the first record and the second record; after identifying the first record and the second record, determining, by the computing apparatus, that the image indicator field of the first record indicates that an image in the set of images is associated with the first transaction and that the image indicator field of the second record indicates that an image in the set of images is associated with the second transaction; sending a response from the computing apparatus to the client device, the computing apparatus sending the response before the end of the current day, the computing apparatus sending the response to the client device in response to receiving the request from the client device, the response containing information that identifies a location of the first image archive and a location of the first image within the first image archive, the response containing information that identifies a location of the second image archive and a location of the second image within the second image archive, the first image associated with the first transaction, the second image associated with the second transaction, the client device and the computing apparatus communicating using HTTP and TCP/IP as a transport protocol for the response, the client device being remote from the image archives.