Patent
1995-03-03
1997-07-22
Hayes, Gail D.
395201, 395203, G06F 1760
Patent
active
056511175
ABSTRACT:
This is a system for disseminating obituaries by a depository that monitors reports of death and selectively transmits some of them to persons who have contracted beforehand with the depository to be notified of certain deaths when report of them is received. The depository creates a database of persons whose deaths are to be reported to customers and a database of customers who are to have certain deaths reported to them. The customer specifies the method of communication and the address to which the death notice is to be sent. The depository monitors all reports of death arising in a domain predetermined in an agreement with the customer and compares data identifying the reported deceased with data identifying the awaited deceased selected by customers. When there is a match the depository transmits a notice of death to the customer at the address and in the manner specified. Customers concerned with publicizing a death are able to report that death to the depository and designate third parties to whom a notice of death or memorial services shall be transmitted. A funeral home using the system departs from its conventional role as a funnel through which material for death notices is channeled to newspapers, opens a new route for the dissemination of obituaries and, in solving the problem attending the direct personal notification of marginal acquaintances, creates a practical option of newspaper bypass.
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Hayes Gail D.
Poinvil Frantzy
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