Patent ID: 8543639

Claim:
A digital data processing system for collecting and transferring information, comprising: A. plural first digital data processors in communications coupling with one or more digital data processing servers, B. the plural first digital data processors each accepting input from one or more persons seeking information and, from that input, generating and transmitting respective information queries to the one or more digital data processing servers, C. the one or more digital data processing servers compiling a plurality of respective queries generated by the plural first digital data processors into a single compiled query and transmitting the compiled query to plural second digital data processors in communications coupling therewith, wherein the compiled query includes a plurality of respective queries from a plurality of first digital data processors, D. the plural second digital data processors each: (i) displaying or otherwise conveying the compiled query to one or more respective persons that may have relevant information, (ii) accepting input from a said respective person that may have relevant information to a respective query of said compiled query, (iii) generating a response to a said respective query based on that input, and (iv) transmitting the response to the one or more digital data processing servers, wherein the one or more digital data processing servers privately routes the response to the one or more first digital data processors that generated the respective queries so that no second digital data processor displays a response input by another second digital data processor.