Patent ID: 9286629
Filing Date: 2016-03-15
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q

Claim Text:
1. A method for publishing content in an exchange system for viewing by customers, the method comprising: receiving content records from systems of a plurality of suppliers of services or goods and defining a category of service or good for each of the content records, at least a portion of the content records having a different category from one another; defining metadata associated with each of the content records; publishing the content records and metadata in a public domain of the exchange system, the public domain is viewable and searchable by one or more consumers; processing the metadata to create one or more natural language parser (NLP) components; receiving a text string request written in a natural language from a consumer; constructing a search query in a format that is supported by the exchange system from the request; transmitting results of the search query to the consumer; and based on the results of the search query, posting a request for services or goods to the exchange system, wherein the exchange system is operable to send notifications to one or more suppliers selected from the plurality of suppliers of services or goods based on one or more categories included in the request.