Patent ID: 7266512
Filing Date: 2007-09-04
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. An apparatus connecting buyers and sellers of products and services comprising: a comprehensive directory of companies; a user-maintained database of registered and subscribing companies selected from said comprehensive directory; and, service-brokering tools for interacting with said directory of companies and user-maintained database of companies, wherein said service-brokering tools comprise: an internal mechanism for a Web server to infer a private label interface from an initial network request of a registered and subscribing company that can persist and cache said private label interface information for the Web server by loading taxonomies specific to individual user-maintained databases and specifying the location of a request for proposal by publishing a pending Partner record to an active record and informing servers within a qualified farm of load-balanced Web servers to re-load said active record in response to a posting of a new request in a qualified server's category.