Patent ID: 7472089

Claim:
A system for processing and submitting loan application data over a computer network, the system comprising: a lender computer including a web server operable to serve at least one web page providing access to services provided by a lender operating the lender computer, wherein the web page is accessible by a user through a web browser executed on a broker computer; the broker computer configured to execute a desktop loan origination computer program for storing and processing loan application data regarding one or more borrowers; and an interface module initiated from the at least one web page served by the lender computer, the interface module configured to extract loan application data associated with, the desktop loan origination computer program upon the user's initiation of a loan submission function presented to the user on the at least one web page served by the lender computer, display, on the at least one web page served by the lender computer, a list of loan applications in an interface that is consistent with the desktop loan origination computer program associated with the broker computer, so that the user is presented with a list of loan applications for further processing on the lender computer, when the user selects a loan application from the list, change the format of the loan application data from a format in which the loan application data was stored to a format compatible with the lender computer, and retrieve loan application data for the selected loan application from the broker computer.