Patent ID: 7660748
Filing Date: 2010-02-09
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for linking a plurality of established user accounts associated with at least one parent entity and a plurality of child entities, wherein a supplier of goods and services maintains the plurality of established user accounts and operates a website with which the plurality of established user accounts are associated; the method comprising: receiving a structure that specifies respective relationships between the parent entity and the plurality of child entities; selecting a parent account from among the plurality of established user accounts, wherein the parent account corresponds to the parent entity; electronically linking each of the plurality of established user accounts to at least one other of the plurality of established user accounts or to the parent account by at least one relationship parameter in accordance with the structure, wherein each of the plurality of established user accounts has at least one user parameter; electronically executing a first transaction request from a first user using at least one of the plurality of established user accounts in accordance with the relationship parameter and a first user parameter; electronically executing at least one other transaction request by at least one other user using at least one of the plurality of established user accounts in accordance with the relationship parameter and a second user parameter; electronically generating aggregate information indicative of the first transaction request and the at least one other transaction request; and electronically associating the aggregate information with the parent account.