Patents Assigned to Forte, LLC
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Patent number: 8170895Abstract: A computer assisted method includes selecting a sample of accounts from a historical database of accounts corresponding to deceased debtors, The sample indicates whether or not an estate was found for each deceased debtor. A comprehensive set of credit related variables corresponding to the accounts is obtained from a first source. A comprehensive set of demographic related variables corresponding to the accounts is obtained from a second source. The variables are mapped to the accounts and a computer executable model is created by identifying a subset of variables from the sets of variables and using the subset of variables and sample of accounts such that the model provides a prediction of whether or not an estate exists for a given deceased debtor.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2009Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: Forte LLCInventor: Andrew M. Larsen
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Patent number: 8165966Abstract: Systems, methods, and software to collect, validate, and disseminate or otherwise use of data of decedents. Some embodiments include receiving and obtaining decedent data from various sources to augment decedent data and making the augmented decedent data available to others.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2010Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Forte LLCInventor: James A. Balogh
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Publication number: 20120095891Abstract: Various embodiments include at least one of systems, methods, and software for probate claim identification and merging. One such embodiment includes processing, utilizing a computer processor, debtor account records stored in an account database to match debtor account records with probate estate records stored in a probate estate database. Upon identification of a match of a debtor account record with a probate estate record, the debtor account record may be associated with the probate estate record. Subsequently a claims process may be executed to generate claims against probate estates. Generating such a claim, when two or more accounts are identified for a single debtor, may consist of generating a single claim against the probate estate of the debtor. The single claim is for each of a plurality of accounts of the debtor of a particular client.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2010Publication date: April 19, 2012Applicant: FORTE LLCInventors: Angela Marie Horn, Dereck John Eastman
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Patent number: 7890435Abstract: Systems and method to identify and locate probate estates of client debtors. One embodiment includes receiving a client file, wherein the file includes a record of individual client debtors and determining if a date of death is available for each of the individual client debtors. Some such embodiments further include identifying one or more courts in which to search for a probate estate for each of the individual client debtors and searching for a probate estate in each identified court for each respective client debtor. In some embodiments, if a probate estate is not identified for a client debtor, the client debtor is placed in a queue, and the search is performed on a recurring or periodic basis until the probate estate is located or a certain period of time has passed.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2010Date of Patent: February 15, 2011Assignee: Forte, LLCInventor: James A. Balogh
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Publication number: 20100325119Abstract: Systems, methods, and software to collect, validate, and disseminate or otherwise use of data of decedents. Some embodiments include receiving and obtaining decedent data from various sources to augment decedent data and making the augmented decedent data available to others.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2010Publication date: December 23, 2010Applicant: FORTE LLCInventor: James A. Balogh
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Publication number: 20100325055Abstract: Systems and method to identify and locate probate estates of client debtors. One embodiment includes receiving a client file, wherein the file includes a record of individual client debtors and determining if a date of death is available for each of the individual client debtors. Some such embodiments further include identifying one or more courts in which to search for a probate estate for each of the individual client debtors and searching for a probate estate in each identified court for each respective client debtor. In some embodiments, if a probate estate is not identified for a client debtor, the client debtor is placed in a queue, and the search is performed on a recurring or periodic basis until the probate estate is located or a certain period of time has passed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2010Publication date: December 23, 2010Applicant: FORTE LLCInventor: James A. Balogh
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Patent number: 7801831Abstract: Systems, methods, and software to collect, validate, and disseminate or otherwise use of data of decedents. Some embodiments include receiving and obtaining decedent data from various sources to augment decedent data and making the augmented decedent data available to others.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2005Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: Forte, LLCInventor: James A. Balogh
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Patent number: 7801832Abstract: Systems and method to identify and locate probate estates of client debtors. One embodiment includes receiving a client file, wherein the file includes a record of individual client debtors and determining if a date of death is available for each of the individual client debtors. Some such embodiments further include identifying one or more courts in which to search for a probate estate for each of the individual client debtors and searching for a probate estate in each identified court for each respective client debtor. In some embodiments, if a probate estate is not identified for a client debtor, the client debtor is placed in a queue, and the search is performed on a recurring or periodic basis until the probate estate is located or a certain period of time has passed.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2005Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: Forte, LLCInventor: James A. Balogh