Patent ID: 9613368
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: G06Q

Claim:
1. A commerce system for serving a customer of delivery services of a delivery services company using dynamically updated data related to the delivery services, the system comprising: platform services positioned at a location of the customer; an operations-management server managed by a vendor positioned at the customer location and operatively connected to the platform services, the operations-management server including: a local commerce server managed by said delivery services company positioned at the customer location and operatively connected to the operations-management server maintained by the vendor and the platform services, the local commerce server including: a database operatively associated with the local commerce server for storing locally-stored commerce data used by the local commerce programs of the local commerce server to provide said services to the customer during operation of the commerce system; and a remote computer system maintained by the delivery services company positioned remote to the customer location and external to the local commerce server, the remote computer system operatively connected to the local commerce server maintained by the delivery services company by way of an external network to allow transfer of data between the remote computer system and the local commerce server, the remote computer system comprising: wherein (a) the operations-management server and the local commerce server run together and interactively on the platform services during operation of the commerce system, (b) the update data is transmitted to the local commerce server in response to the local commerce server sending a query to at least one of the message-management compartments, the query requests whether update information exists for an account associated with the customer, and (c) after the update data is received by the local commerce server, the locally-stored commerce data is updated with the update data specific for said customer thereby allowing access to information in the remotely-stored commerce data without requiring communication with the remote computer system maintained by the delivery services company.