Patent ID: 7941432

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for creating a public notice, the method comprising: providing an application server communicatively coupled to a network interface and a database server, the database server including a memory storing a public records database having a plurality of public notice database records; receiving jurisdiction data and notice-type data at the application server; providing a jurisdiction-specific form field to a user, the jurisdiction-specific form field determined by the received jurisdiction-data and the received notice-type data; receiving notice-information data at the application server, the notice-information data submitted by the user using the provided jurisdiction-specific form fields and including data from a data record flagged by an administrator of a court as requiring publication of a public notice and relating to data records of legal cases administered by the court and stored in a memory device of an administrative server, the received notice-information data, jurisdiction data, and notice-type data comprising a user-submitted notice; validating the user-submitted notice received at the application server, including: selecting a predetermined jurisdiction-specific notice format based upon the jurisdiction data received at the application server, the jurisdiction-specific notice format including a set of data fields, parsing the user-submitted notice into a plurality of individual component data parts, comparing each of the plurality of individual component data parts to a corresponding data field of the jurisdiction-specific notice format, and determining whether the user-submitted notice meets or exceeds a predetermined validation threshold; transforming the user-submitted notice into a public notice database record if the user-submitted notice meets or exceeds a predetermined validation threshold; storing the public notice database record in the memory storing the public records database; and wherein the public notice database record represents a public notice.