Patent ID: 7337130
Filing Date: 2008-02-26
Classification: G06Q,G07B

Abstract:
1. An automated method of providing a personalized product in response to each request from customers, the automated method comprising the steps of: preparing electronic personalized product producing data on a portable hand-held device based on instructions provided to a customer prior to preparing the electronic personalized product producing data, the electronic personalized product producing data including text data and type of the personalized product, the text data includes data to be recorded on the personalized product; sending the personalized product producing data in a first format from the portable hand-held device by wireless communication to a producing facility; receiving, by wireless communication, the electronic personalized product producing data in the first format and customer identification information; electronically sequentially storing sets of the personalized product producing data and the customer identification information, each set including a piece of personalized product producing data and a piece of customer identification information; automatically and electronically analyzing each piece of the personalized product producing data in the first format and converting it to a piece of electronic data in a second format; receiving the piece of electronic data in the second format and recording the piece of electronic data in the second format on an output medium used to produce a personalized product; producing the personalized product based on the piece of electronic data in the second format at a location to be specified by the electronic personalized product producing data; and automatically notifying the customer of at least one of receipt of the electronic personalized product producing data and completion of the personalized product requested, wherein the automated method incorporates the request and producing of the personalized product taking place within a facility where the customer is located, and delivery of the personalized product to the customer at the location where the personalized product is produced.