Patent ID: 7698174
Filing Date: 2010-04-13
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method of using a server for providing an accessible business environment, comprising: providing a common repository at the server, the common repository being accessible via the Internet and including at least one business portal; extracting, by a processor on the server, from a plurality of delivery notes from a plurality of manufacturers to respective wholesalers data identifying the delivery note, a product, and a pricing term which is then stored in the common repository of the server; storing cataloging information about each product in the common repository after the cataloging information is entered by each wholesaler receiving the delivery note; storing transfer information about each product in the common repository identifying a retailer when the product sold has been transferred from the respective wholesaler to a retailer; storing retailer pricing information about each product in the common repository after the product has been transferred to the respective retailer; searching for a product listing in the common repository using a browser; identifying matching products in the common repository by comparing, by the processor on the server, data stored in the common repository to the search; receiving the resulting matching product listing indicating at least one of any available business portals and no available business portals, for each matching product, presenting product information identifying the matching product, the retailer pricing information for the matching product, and the retailer selling the matching product; after receiving an order from a buyer for a matching product: