Patent ID: 9245289
Filing Date: 2016-01-26
CPC Classification: G06Q

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: at a server hosting an electronic procurement system that facilitates transactions among a plurality of purchasing organizations and a plurality of suppliers over an electronic network, the server including one or more processors and a memory storing programs for execution by the processors: receiving over the electronic network supplier catalog data from the plurality of respective suppliers, where the supplier catalog data is in a plurality of formats; obtaining from a business rules database business rules associated with the plurality of respective suppliers; in accordance with the business rules, automatically converting the supplier catalog data from the respective plurality of formats to respective common format catalog data; storing in the memory of the server information linking respective common format catalog data to corresponding respective supplier catalog data; adding the respective common format catalog data to a staging database; enabling by the staging database a development environment in which the suppliers upload their respective data blocks into a supplier catalog and test its operation; and in response to initiation of a syndication operation for syndicating data blocks into a supplier catalog: