Patent ID: 7802175

Claim:
An apparatus for the automated insertion of formatted address information in an electronically generated document, the apparatus comprising: an address storage device having a plurality of address fields stored therein; a style format template database having a plurality of style formats stored therein; a processing device coupled to a template storage device and the address storage device, the processing device operative to: retrieve a document template from the template storage device; generate an address data request to the address storage device, wherein address data is included in one or more address fields; receive an address format command; generate the electronic document based on the document template by importing the address fields including address data from the address storage device according to the generated address data request into the generated electronic document; if the address format command indicates mailing format, assemble the address fields in the generated electronic document in accordance with a mailing protocol, else if the address format command indicates a style format that is non-compliant with a mailing format, extract a style format template from the style format template database and assemble the address fields in the generated electronic document in accordance with the style format that is non-compliant with the mailing format; and populate the address fields of the generated document with the imported address data.