Method and system for creating a corporate entity
First Claim
1. A method for assisting in the formation of a corporate entity, in at least one answering session, by providing a processor means in interactive communication with a user attempting to form said corporate entity, said processor means being configured to perform automatically the following:
- (a) communicating at least one set of one or more questions to said user via an interactive communications device and enabling said user to provide, for storage, one or more answers to said communicated questions;
(b) selecting a further set of one or more questions for communication to said user, wherein the selection of at least one question in said selected further set of one or more questions is dependent upon said user'"'"'s answer to one or more previous questions;
(c) communicating said further set of one or more questions to said user and enabling said user to provide, for storage, one or more answers to said further set of communicated questions;
(d) repeating at least some of the above until said user has provided at least enough information to allow said processor means to determine the documents that are legally required for the formation of said corporate entity, wherein at least one repetition includes a repetition of (b) and (c);
(e) determining the documents that are legally required for the formation of said corporate entity; and
(f) generating said legally required documents referred to in (e) in an electronic form.
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Abstract
A method for assisting in the formation of a corporate entity, in an answering session, the method comprising the steps of: (a) interactively communicating via an interactive communications device, a series of questions to a user attempting to establish the corporate entity; (b) permitting the user to provide an answer to the set of one or more questions; (c) successively selecting a further set of one or more questions for display to the user, at least one of the selection being dependent upon the user'"'"'s previous answer or combination of previous answers; (d) permitting the user to answer the successive set of one or more selected questions; (e) repeating steps (c) to (d) until the user has provided enough information to allow for the determination as to which documents are legally required for the formation of the corporate entity; and (f) generating the legally required documents referred to in step (e) in an electronic form.
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49 Claims
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1. A method for assisting in the formation of a corporate entity, in at least one answering session, by providing a processor means in interactive communication with a user attempting to form said corporate entity, said processor means being configured to perform automatically the following:
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(a) communicating at least one set of one or more questions to said user via an interactive communications device and enabling said user to provide, for storage, one or more answers to said communicated questions;
(b) selecting a further set of one or more questions for communication to said user, wherein the selection of at least one question in said selected further set of one or more questions is dependent upon said user'"'"'s answer to one or more previous questions;
(c) communicating said further set of one or more questions to said user and enabling said user to provide, for storage, one or more answers to said further set of communicated questions;
(d) repeating at least some of the above until said user has provided at least enough information to allow said processor means to determine the documents that are legally required for the formation of said corporate entity, wherein at least one repetition includes a repetition of (b) and (c);
(e) determining the documents that are legally required for the formation of said corporate entity; and
(f) generating said legally required documents referred to in (e) in an electronic form. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A system for assisting in the formation of a corporate entity in at least one answering session, said system including:
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a processor in interactive communication with a user attempting to form said corporate entity;
interactive communication means, in communication with said processor, adapted to allow said processor to communicate sets of one or more questions to said user and to allow said processor to receive said user'"'"'s answers to said communicated questions;
a data storer associated with said processor means configured to store said user'"'"'s received answers;
said processor running an application program configured to cause said processor to communicate at least one set of one or more questions to said user and to receive answers thereto from said user;
to successively select and communicate a further set of one or more questions to said user and to receive answers thereto from said user; and
to repeat said selection and communication of further sets of one or more questions until said processor has received at least enough answers from said user to allow said processor to determine the documents that are legally required for the formation of said corporate entity, wherein the selection of at least some of said further sets of one or more questions by said processor is based on said user'"'"'s answer to one or more previous questions;
said application program further causing said processor to determine the documents that are legally required for the formation of said corporate entity; and
to generate said legally required documents in an electronic form using at least some of said user'"'"'s stored answers. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 48, 49)
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35. A computer memory storing thereon an application program for controlling the operation of a processor to assist in the formation of a corporate entity in at least one answering session, said application program controlling said processor to:
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(a) communicate at least one set of one or more questions to said user and enable said user to provide, for storage, one or more answers to said communicated questions;
(b) select a further set of one or more questions for communication to said user, wherein the selection of at least one question in said selected further set of one or more questions is dependent upon said user'"'"'s answer to one or more previous questions;
(c) communicate said further set of one or more questions to said user and enable said user to provide, for storage, one or more answers to said further set of communicated questions;
(d) repeat at least some of the above until said user has provided at least enough information to allow said processor to determine the documents that are legally required for the formation of said corporate entity, wherein at least one repetition includes a repetition of (b) and (c);
(e) determine the documents that are legally required for the formation of said corporate entity; and
(f) generate the legally required documents referred to in (e) in an electronic form. - View Dependent Claims (36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47)
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