METHODS OF SEARCHING PUBLIC INFORMATION FOR SALES LEADS

摘要

A system and method of identifying UCC Financing Statements by productive asset type, which is useful in identifying prospects for companies that are involved in the distribution, sales, and financing of productive assets. The present invention allows the user of the invention to search UCC financing statements by brand and/or type of equipment that is used as collateral. Using a lead generation technique that involves analyzing and correlating collateral information to UCC financing statements, the statements can be identified and categorized by collateral type. By processing electronic collateral information, as well as an OCR process that converts text contained in images into searchable text. There is also a direct data entry method of gathering collateral information. This collateral information is then used in an innovative relational database. Also, the proposed invention categorizes UCC financing statements by collateral type using a method of querying specific equipment type keywords, such as equipment names and brand names. Also, the proposed invention merges UCC addendums and amendments allowing the user to view the most current UCC financing information without looking at multiple filings.

主权项

1. A method of identifying customers of productive assets, comprising:
machine-searching a plurality of Uniform Commercial Code financing statements that each includes a field for collateral information on specific productive assets that are supplied as collateral for a transaction underlying the financing statement, and corresponding party information, wherein corresponding collateral information fields in the financing statements are filled with either markup language data, images, or no information; machine-collecting the collateral information and corresponding party information into records, including automatically retrieving the markup language data as well as converting the images to a searchable digital text form, entering the collateral information into the respective records, flagging any financing statements that contain no information in their collateral information fields, and manually obtaining collateral information for the financing statements having no information in their collateral information fields and entering the obtained collateral information into the respective records; and machine-organizing the records by the collateral information to identify the corresponding party information, including keyword mapping the collateral information into particular equipment specific categories.