Online life insurance document management service

An online life insurance document management service:

• a host server having a web-based interface adapted to facilitate secure customer access to the host server, wherein the computing device is adapted to communicate information to the host server via a network;
• an authentication module operably coupled to the host server and adapted to operate on the web-based interface to control access to the data management service utilizing at least one authentication mechanism;
• a processing module operably coupled to the host server and configured to process the information communicated from the computing device and selectively extract data from the processed information;
• a storage device operably coupled to the processing module and configured to store the extracted data as metadata corresponding to the information communicated from the computing device;
• and
• a data management application configured to continuously monitor the metadata stored on the storage device to detect at least one triggering condition, wherein the data management application is further configured to generate at least one report based on the detection of the at least one triggering condition.

A method for providing an online life insurance document management service, comprising the steps of:

• providing a host server having a web-based interface adapted to receive information communicated from a computing device;
• processing the information communicated from the computing device;
• providing a storage device in operative communication with the host server and configured to store the processed information as metadata;
• generating at least one associated link via the web-based interface corresponding to the stored metadata;
• continuously monitoring the stored metadata to detect at least one triggering condition;
• and
• generating at least one report based on the detection of the at least one triggering condition.