Patent ID: 8781107

Claim:
A method for using electronic consent provided by an individual, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of electronic consent data (“ECD”) associated with a plurality of individuals, the ECD comprising at least two from a group of web page data, image data, text message data, and voice data, wherein each ECD further comprises a telephone number and authorization data to receive a subsequent call to the telephone number; storing the plurality of ECD in an ECD database; storing metadata comprising the telephone number and linkage to the ECD for each of the plurality of ECD in the ECD database; receiving a query at the ECD database from a call center, the query comprising a particular telephone number for which consent to originate the subsequent call is requested; searching the metadata in the ECD database for the particular telephone number; determining ECD exists in the ECD database for the particular telephone number and authorizes origination of the subsequent call to the particular telephone number; providing a response to the query to the call center indicating authorization for originating the subsequent call to the particular telephone number; originating the subsequent call to the particular telephone number by the call center in response to receiving the response; and connecting the subsequent call originated to the particular telephone number with an agent; receiving an opt-out indication verbally indicated from the individual after connecting the subsequent call with the agent; interacting with a computer by the agent, thereby causing a message reflecting the opt-out indication to be transmitted to the ECD database; receiving the message at the ECD database reflecting the opt-out indication associated with the particular telephone number; and updating the ECD database to reflect the opt-out indication for the particular telephone number.