Patent ID: 7698167
Filing Date: 2010-04-13
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for dynamically generating a prescribed catalog, using a computer system which summarizes selected offerings of a user, the method comprising: obtaining general information via the computer system related to the user generating a prescribed catalog and storing such information in a catalog database; establishing information fields for inclusion into the catalog database, wherein the company database includes a plurality of data fields which are made available through the computer system for inclusion as information fields within the catalog database and which correspond to the company's offerings, and wherein establishment of the information fields is achieved by selecting at least one of these company database data fields via a user input device, and wherein additional information fields can also be manually established by the user via the user input device; selecting via the user input device information fields within the catalog database to be included in the prescribed catalog and selecting via the user input device catalog design attributes for the prescribed catalog, wherein the selected information fields include product attributes for inclusion in the prescribed catalog; the computer system creating the catalog database using information in the company database correlated to established information fields and information generated manually by the user, wherein any information in the company database correlated to established information fields is entered into the catalog database by downloading information from those selected information fields that are also found in the company database, and wherein any information fields manually generated is created by manually entering data via the user input device into those data fields; identifying a plurality of catalog templates via the user input device for use in the prescribed catalog, wherein each catalog template outlines the presentation format for the identified information fields within the catalog database; and the computer system producing the prescribed catalog in a selected format based upon the identified catalog templates and the catalog database, wherein the prescribed catalog includes the selected offerings and producing the prescribed catalog further comprises assembling at least one catalog page by dynamically fitting the selected information fields and product attributes into the identified catalog templates for the at least one catalog page thus producing an output format that follows the catalog template and which lists the selected information fields.