Patent ID: 7302430

Claim:
A automated creation and delivery method for generating output material, comprising: generating a customer record in a first database table to include fields specifying at least one product, customer preferences, and a selected output method to deliver generated output material on the product specified in the customer record; receiving at least one customer record in the first database table to process; processing a template including queries of records in a second database table; accessing at least one value in a field in one customer record to include in at least one query in the template against the second database table; applying the at least one query from the template including the at least one value from the customer record against the second database table to determine at least one record associated with at least one content file including fields matching the query; accessing the at least one content file associated with the at least one determined record; generating the content of the accessed at least one content file into the template to form the output material; determining a selected one of a plurality of delivery options from the customer record; and transmitting the output material via the determined delivery option to the customer specified in the customer record.