Patent ID: 8156012
Filing Date: 2012-04-10
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: a server machine sending an initial e-mail message to an e-mail address of a requisitioning-user in response to direction received from an initiating-user, the initial e-mail message including a requisition template that specifies information about one or more items for requisitioning; the server machine receiving a reply e-mail message in response to the initial e-mail message, the reply e-mail message including the requisition template, as adjusted by the requisitioning-user to specify adjusted information about the one or more items for requisitioning; the server machine processing the reply e-mail message to determine the adjusted information about the one or more items for requisitioning; wherein the information specified in the requisition template comprises one or more indicium, each indicium being configured to represent an item that can be requisitioned by the requisitioning-user and having its own associated quantity field, the quantity field representing the quantity of the associated item that is desired by the requisitioning-user; wherein receiving the reply e-mail message comprises receiving the reply e-mail message from the requisitioning-user's e-mail address; wherein the server machine processing the reply email message comprises: