Patent ID: 7505999

Claim:
An apparatus for automated generation of a business correspondence from formatted business information using forms, comprising: a business information database having business information stored therein in an original format; a form database having a plurality of business forms stored therein, select business forms including business information insertion fields which include retrieval instructions for retrieving business information for the respective field and formatting instructions for generating formatting for a word processing program to accommodate the original format of the retrieved business information; and a processing device in operative communication with the form database and the business information database, the processing device operative to execute executable instructions such that the processor, in response to the executable instructions: accesses a form database for the selection of a selected business form from a plurality of business forms stored therein; retrieves the selected business form; opens a new document in the word processing program using the selected business form as a template; for each field in the business form for which retrieval instructions are provided: accesses a business information database to retrieve business information associated with the respective business information data fields using the retrieval instructions; determines size parameters for the retrieved business information; inserts formatting into the document to fit the retrieved business information in its original format to the respective business information data field based on the business information, the size parameters and the formatting instructions, and populates the respective business information data field while maintaining the original formatting of the business information as stored in the business information database.