Patent ID: 8412610

Claim:
A system that prepares a Form-5500 in response to a request from a user at a remote computer terminal, comprising: a server in support of a website accessible by the remote computer terminal via an internet connection, the server configured to: transmit a request to an electronic public database implemented by a Department of Labor computing system via a communication over the internet connection, the request including an identification of previously filed benefit data; receive the previously filed benefit data in flat file format from the electronic public database; convert the previously filed benefit data into a format searchable and retrievable by the software running on the server; store the converted previously filed benefit data into a database in the memory of the server; receive from a remote computer terminal via the website supported by the server a request to populate Form-5500 with at least a portion of the previously filed data, the request to populate Form-5500 also including a filing party identification which includes at least one of an employer identification number identifier (EIN), a designation of an employer, or a designation of an employer benefit plan; search the integrated database for a desired portion of the converted previously filed benefit data based on the filing party identification; populate the plurality of entries of the electronic-version of the Form-5500 with the portions of the previously filed benefit data; prompt the user at the remote terminal for manual entry of one or more entries of the Form-5500 in response to prompts from web pages of the website, where the manual entries are stored in the database; display the completed electronic version of Form-5500 including the information from the desired portion of the converted previously filed benefit data and the information received by manual entry at the terminal via the website for review.