Patent ID: 8370353
Filing Date: 2013-02-05
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method utilizing at least one computer for providing a searchable parts database, the method comprising: collecting data associated with component parts and services related to the component parts from a plurality of manufacturers of the component parts and services to form a component part database; forming a first exclusive group including a first subset of the manufacturers; providing the manufacturers who are members of the 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 members of the exclusive group; denying users excluded from the exclusive group access to the first portion of the component part database; providing the users excluded from the exclusive group with access to the other portions of the component part database; forming a second exclusive group including a second subset of users who are manufacturers of the component parts and services, the second subset including at least one but not all members of the first subset and at least one but not all of the users excluded from the first subset; providing the manufacturers who are members of the second exclusive group with access to a second portion of the component part database, the second portion being contributed to the component part database by the manufacturers who are members of the second exclusive group; denying users excluded from the second exclusive group access to the second portion of the component database; providing the users excluded from the second exclusive group with access to the other portions of the component database; and enabling each of the users to: