Patent ID: 7236983
Filing Date: 2007-06-26
Classification: G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A vehicle description language (VDL) hierarchical data structure that is stored in a memory system of one or more communicatively coupled computing systems interconnected through an intermediary subsystem and transmitted via communications medium between the communicatively coupled computing systems to communicate information associated with a vehicle in support of application(s) executing thereon, the data structure comprising: (a) a public block of data, having starting and ending delimiters that identify the beginning and end of the block of data, wherein the public block of data comprises: (b) a private block of data comprising a plurality of data items relating to the customer who is ordering the vehicle including at least a ranking of product attributes; wherein one of the computing systems receives the data structure and operates on at least the vehicle detail sub-block to select a subset of a target group of sellers by comparing at least features of the vehicle in a request for quote (RFQ) with products of at least one seller from the target group of sellers.