Patent ID: 9053507
Filing Date: 2015-06-09
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method of providing a searchable parts database, the method comprising: collecting component part data from a plurality of users who are manufacturers of corresponding component parts to form a component part database; forming a first exclusive group including a first subset of the manufacturers; providing manufacturers who are members of the first exclusive group with access to a first portion and to other portions of the component part database, the first portion being contributed to the component part database by the manufacturers who are the members of the first exclusive group; denying to users excluded from the first exclusive group access to the first portion of the component part database; providing the users excluded from the first exclusive group with access to the other portions of the component part database; enabling each user of the component part database to furnish an image of a desired component part and to search only accessible portions of the component part database to which the user has been provided access, wherein the searching being based upon the furnished image of the desired component part; segregating search results into component part data from the users who are the members of the first exclusive group and component part data from the users excluded from the first exclusive group; and presenting the segregated search results simultaneously on a same display screen.