Patent ID: 7232064

Claim:
A system for collecting and organizing data comprising: a video camera for capturing video images of transactions; an input device for collecting transaction data associated with the transactions; and a database management system for organizing the video images and the transaction data into a digital database; wherein the video images are stored in the digital database as digital video images; wherein the digital video images are associated in the digital database with the transaction data such that the digital video images of a transaction can be retrieved based on the transaction data of the transaction; wherein the video camera is configured to capture a first video image during a first time period; wherein the database management system is configured to determine, after the video camera has captured the first video image, whether or not the input device collected first transaction data of a first transaction during the first time period; and wherein the database management system is configured to store, if determining that the input device collected the first transaction data during the first time period, the first video image in the digital database as a first digital video image associated with the first transaction data.