Patent ID: 7720713
Filing Date: 2010-05-18
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for purchasing a product comprising the steps of: providing a communications network having a computer including at least one purchaser and a plurality of suppliers that are each physically and communicatively coupled to the communications network; identifying a plurality of suppliers; creating an information template that is queried and dynamically configurable on the computer within the communications network for each of the plurality of suppliers wherein each of the information template specifies a product having at least one component disposed within the product; searching each of the information templates selectively stored within a database for the specified at least one component disposed within the product; identifying at least one supplier from the plurality of suppliers by use of said search; causing a design file of said product to be created within the communications network by performing the steps of purchasing said at least one component disposed within the product from said at least one identified supplier from the plurality of suppliers.