Patent ID: 7734626

Claim:
A system for obtaining associated personal data of a person attending a reception site in order to provide a response to such person, which comprises: a podium disposed at the reception site, wherein the reception site includes one of a funeral, a wedding, a birthday party, a convention, and a graduation party; a computer based device operably disposed on said podium at the reception site having operating software thereon and follow-up software for receiving personal name and address information data for the person and event data and storing for subsequent retrieval said personal name and address information data and said event data in a memory of said computer based device; and an image acquisition device including a camera operably associated with said computer based device and said follow up software for acquiring an image data of the person while at said podium such that said follow-up software stores for subsequent retrieval said image data in a manner to be associated with said personal name and address information data in a memory of said computer based device.