Patent ID: 7257206

Claim:
One or more user interfaces for use in skip tracing, comprising: a first user interface comprising: an area for presenting at least one telephone number associated with account information of a customer retrieved from a mainframe computer system, a documentation area for inputting skip tracing results, a user interface control for indicating that a telephone number presented in the area is bad, wherein selection of the user interface control causes the documentation area to be populated with data indicating that the telephone number is bad, a second user interface control for indicating that a second telephone number presented in the area is good, wherein selection of the second user interface control causes the documentation area to be populated with data indicating that the second telephone number is good, and a third user interface control for causing data populating the documentation area to be recorded in a skip tracing data structure of the mainframe computer system and for causing display of a fourth user interface control, the fourth user interface control for causing the second telephone number to be recorded in a skip queue of the mainframe computer system; and a second user interface comprising: an area presenting one or more sets of numbers associated with the customer and retrieved from stored information associated with the customer, a documentation area for presenting skip tracing results input to the documentation area of the first user interface and for inputting skip tracing results associated with the presented one or more sets of numbers, a user interface control for indicating that a telephone number corresponding to a set of numbers presented in the area is good, wherein selection of the user interface control causes the telephone number to be recorded in the skip queue of the mainframe computer system, a second user interface control for causing data populating the documentation area to be recorded in the skip tracing data structure of the mainframe computer system, a third user interface control for indicating that no telephone numbers corresponding to the sets of numbers presented in the area are good, and a fourth user interface control for causing display of a next user interface.