Patents Assigned to Forte, LLC
  • Patent number: 7890435
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Forte, LLC
    Inventor: James A. Balogh
  • Patent number: 7801832
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Forte, LLC
    Inventor: James A. Balogh
  • Patent number: 7801831
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Forte, LLC
    Inventor: James A. Balogh