Patent ID: 6453329
Filing Date: 2002-09-17
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
A method for gathering, transferring, and processing data using an information retrieval computer and an information processing computer, such method comprising the steps of:creating a computer-readable script document comprising: sequential data fields modifiable by said information retrieval computer to reflect information input by a user of said information retrieval computer, and interpretable and translatable, once modified by said information retrieval computer, by said information processing computer to generate human perceptible information said data fields being sequenced in a predetermined order to respectively correspond to like-ordered elements of translation means useful by said data processing computer whereby said data fields, once modified by said information retrieval computer, is translatable by said data processing computer to reflect human perceptible information corresponding to information input by said user; identifying means for uniquely identifying said script document to said data processing computer for enabling said information processing computer to apply said translation means to said data fields, once modified by said information retrieval computer, and generate said human perceptible information based thereon; selecting first distillation means, said first distillation means for creating a first distilled computer file by carrying out a first distillation step by which said script document is modified to remove at least a portion of the content thereof which neither identifies said script document for later processing nor enables modification of said data fields by said information retrieval computer according to input by said user thereof to reflect gathered information; actuating said first distillation means to generate said first distilled computer file; transferring said first distilled computer file to said information retrieval computer; through user input into said information retrieval computer, modifying said data fields of said first distilled computer file to reflect information corresponding respectively to each said data field; transferring said first distilled computer file, as modified by said information retrieval computer, to a said information processing computer; actuating said information processing computer to effect an expansion step whereby said information processing computer applies said identifying means to properly associate said translation means to said first distilled computer file, as modified by said information retrieval computer, and applies said translation means thereto for translating said first distilled computer file into human perceptible indicia.